As the class-action antitrust lawsuit filed by former fighters against the UFC approached the end of the fact discovery period, multiple motions had piled up awaiting rulings. Last Thursday, Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen knocked them all out, paving the way for the future of the case.
Both the fighters and the UFC had previously issued subpoenas for confidential Bellator documents, which the Scott Coker-led promotion attempted to quash. Judge Leen denied Bellator and will now choose between the fighters’ proposal seeking quarterly and event-level financial information and the UFC’s proposal which, in addition to the financials, would also include a random sample of contracts from at least 20% of Bellator’s fighters, including signing and discretionary bonuses.