Ultimate Fighting Championship and Bellator officials are used to having things settled inside the cage on fight night, but it seems that they will be preparing for a different kind of fight in the near future. A class action lawsuit was filed against the premier fight promotion in 2015 which accused them of abusing their power to manipulate the market, creating a monopoly.
UFC has recently filed subpoenas that would allow their lawyers to see financial information, as well as contact information, of Bellator fighters and officials. Bellator filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California hoping to put an early end to those subpoenas.
A source informed Sporting News that Bellator has already “produced in excess of two thousand pages of responsive documents” for the anti-trust lawsuit. UFC’s goals by obtaining these documents is to get detailed financial records to aid them in their defense of the anti-trust lawsuit.
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