The sale of the UFC to private investors WME-IMG for $4 billion is the biggest story in MMA this year. Not just for the fact that Zuffa, the company who stewarded the UFC from near bankruptcy to global brand icon, purchased the company for $2 million only 15 years ago and generated a 200000% return on investment, but also because of the story lines created as a result of the sale. The biggest of these is undoubtedly the renewed push by fighters and outside actors to unionize in a significant manner.
Yesterday, one of the fighters who has been actively involved in the fighters association agenda previously, former Strikeforce middleweight champion Cung Le, spoke with FightHub TV about the sale of the UFC and the reinvigorated talks surrounding a fighters organization.