Ultimate Fighting Championship’s $375 million antitrust settlement with former fighters gained final approval, ending more than a decade of litigation over suppressed wages.
Judge Richard F. Boulware of the US District Court for the District of Nevada in a Monday order approved the class settlement, calling it the “result of vigorous arm’s-length negotiations undertaken in good faith.”
He also approved plaintiffs’ attorneys fees of $115.2 million—30.72 percent of the settlement fund.
Final approval of the deal ends a multiyear clash between UFC and ex-fighters who claimed the fighting powerhouse locked them into a cycle of successive contracts and paid them ...
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