Fighters are set to obtain compensation funds starting from $100,000 to greater than $1m from the UFC’s antitrust lawsuit settlement, based on the regulation agency dealing with the case.
In October, the UFC agreed to pay £281m to former fighters who competed within the MMA promotion between 2010 and 2017.
The lawsuit claimed the UFC supressed athletes’ ability to barter different promotional choices and estimate 1,100 fighters had been affected.
Of that complete determine, 97% of them have utilized to obtain funds from the settlement, Berger Montague introduced.
“It’s anticipated that 35 fighters would web over $1m (£727,755); almost 100 fighters would web over $500,000 (£364,000); greater than 200 fighters would recuperate over $250,000 (£182,000); and over 500 fighters would web in extra of $100,000 (£73,000),” a statement said., external
The UFC are within the midst of one other antitrust lawsuit, Johnson v. Zuffa, led by extra of their former athletes.
Fighters from 2017 to the current day are looking for damages and a change to the UFC’s enterprise practices, together with the contracts they insist on.
The antitrust lawsuits had sought as much as $1.6bn (£1.25bn) in damages.
The UFC merged with the WWE (World Wrestling Leisure) in 2023 to kind the TKO Group.
The UFC’s worldwide battle week is at the moment below means in Las Vegas, with Ilia Topuria preventing Charles Oliveira for the UFC light-weight title on the T-Cellular Area.
Topuria, who was champion at featherweight, headlines alongside Oliveira whereas within the co-main occasion Alexandre Pantoja defends his flyweight title towards Kai Kara-France.
