The UFC recently found themselves closer to a potentially massive lawsuit going against them. Former mixed martial artist Cung Le is part of a lawsuit against the Ultimate Fighting Championships and Judge Richard Boulware recently ruled in favour of the plaintiffs. This means that a class action status has been granted on the lawsuit against UFC and could mean huge payments in damages for the company.
The gist of the case states that UFC used it’s power to ‘subvert competition’ and buy up competitors. With this, it is claimed that the company could keep the salary structure of it’s fighters down. If the lawsuit is successful? This could be major for WWE, as the precedent set by this case would also apply to any suits taken up against WWE.
Dave Meltzer wrote the following about the case in this week’s edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
The ruling means that every fighter who fought in UFC from 2010 through 2017, when the suit was filed, would be considered a plaintiff in the suit. In doing so, that could lead to a scary level of damages, which plaintiff lawyers claim would be almost $5 billion to 1,200 fighters.
Keep in mind that WWE pays a lower percentage to talent than UFC, which has been at around 20 percent the past several years and Dana White claimed UFC would be paying $200 million to talent this year.
Credit to F4wonline for the transcription
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