Back to the MMA Newsfeed

Former UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta speaks under oath about fighters, promoters, television

As the class-action, antitrust lawsuit filed against the UFC by former fighters makes its way through a slow period, small pieces of new information make their way out. On Monday, it was the first deposition excerpts of a high-level UFC executive – former CEO Lorenzo Fertitta.

As part of a motion to seal a discussion of an old lawsuit and confidential settlement agreement – which appears to be related to the 2008 dispute between Mark Cuban’s HDNet MMA and the UFC over Randy Couture’s contractual status – UFC attorneys included two pages of Fertitta’s Mar.