Following the surprise announcement that a settlement between the UFC and its class-action plaintiffs had been rejected by Nevada District Judge Richard Boulware, it appears that the future of MMA is once again an open question.
A Legal Saga
The history of the UFC and its dance with the devil of monopsony is a long and complicated one. Accusations surrounding its anti-competitive tactics and bruising contractual strategy have been abound since the 2000s with the folding of Pride FC and spats with Andrei Arlovski and Randy Couture entrenching the UFC’s status as a company seemingly intolerant of competition.