The Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association has issued a strongly worded response to a group representing fighters in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit in what has turned into a public tug-of-war between groups seeking to represent fighters' collective interests.
In response to last week's announcement of the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association's formation, the counsel for the group involved in an ongoing anti-trust lawsuit against the UFC sent the MMAAA a cease-and-desist letter addressed to the MMAAA's Bjorn Rebney, expressing concerns the new fighters association's actions would harm the ongoing litigation.
The letter sent to the MMAAA from Eric Cramer and Michael Dell'Angelo of Berger & Montague, Benjamin Brown and Richard Koffman of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, and Joseph Saveri, obtained by Bloody Elbow, states that Rebney and others involved with MMAAA met with them a year ago, asking to be part of the antitrust lawsuit and wanting a share of the potential payout.