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Zuffa, the former parent company of the UFC, was denied an appeal in an ongoing anti-trust by a pair of judges from the 9th District Court according to files obtained by MMA Fighting.
A part of the appeal was aimed at overturning a ruling made by a Nevada judge that certified a group of fighters suing the promotion as a class. Former UFC fighters Cung Le, Jon Fitch and Kyle Kingsbury are a part of the group suing the UFC and that group was given class action status this past August, with that status giving the fighters the ability to do even more potential legal damage to the UFC.
The group suing the UFC has alleged that the promotion has suppressed fighter pay using an anti-competitive scheme to control the market for said fighters. Other charges have been filed by the group against the UFC as well. The total legal damages, if the group does manage to defeat the UFC, could total between $800 million and $1.6 billion, with a potential total of 1,200 plaintiffs who competed in the promotion between 2010 and 2017, when the fighters said the UFC allegedly enacted in their illegal practices.
There is another case being headed by former UFC fighter Kajan Johnson that would cover the alleged illegal practices by the UFC from post-2017 onward. The UFC can still appeal the result of the first case according to MMA Fighting, but they would have to do so before the trial potentially begins this April.
