A new effort to unionize mixed martial artists on the UFC roster has come to light.
UFC women’s bantamweight Leslie Smith has launched Project Spearhead, the latest association with plans to attempt to assemble a fighter’s union. The Project Spearhead website went live Friday.
As of now, Smith is serving as the Project Spearhead interim president, while UFC lightweight Kajan Johnson has recently been named the interim vice president. Labor lawyer Lucas Middlebrook — best known in MMA as the attorney who helped Nick Diaz in his 2015 marijuana case — is also part of Project Spearhead, per the website.