Bisping, the former UFC middleweight champion, was ordered Friday to pay his ex-manager Anthony McGann over $400,000 of unpaid commissions dating from 2005 to 2011, according to a report by the Manchester Evening News. The verdict came after an 11-day trial that saw Bisping and McGann reportedly engage in a “scuffle” inside of a court waiting area during the proceedings.
The case’s dispute stemmed from a contract Bisping signed in 2005 prior to his successful run on The Ultimate Fighter 3. Judge Richard Salter ruled that Bisping owed McGann — the founder of the Wolfslair MMA Academy gym that Bisping once represented — more than £320,000 in unpaid commissions, or approximately $426,284, earned over the six-year period that covered Bisping’s early UFC career.