November 12, 2025
Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters suing the mixed martial arts organization for wage suppression are accusing it in Nevada federal court of withholding a large amount of evidence key to the UFC's bid to force their antitrust claims into arbitration.
September 02, 2025
A Nevada federal judge has rejected Ultimate Fighting Championship's motion seeking to deny class certification for fighters suing it over alleged suppressed wages, saying the request is premature.
August 13, 2025
Ultimate Fighting Championship's parent companies told a Nevada federal court Tuesday that they have already filed nearly 4 million pages to comply with discovery deadlines in a wage dispute with fighters, arguing that the fighters' July request for sanctions, including default judgment, is unwarranted.
July 30, 2025
Fighters suing UFC over allegations of wage suppression have asked a Nevada federal judge to impose terminating sanctions on the organization and its parent company, TKO Operating Co. LLC, for failing to turn over court-ordered documents.
July 25, 2025
Fighters engaged in an ongoing battle over wages with UFC are asking a Nevada federal court to force a sports talent agency to turn over documents they say will shed light on their antitrust claims and help build their case.
April 03, 2025
UFC has urged a Nevada federal court not to certify a class of fighters in the second antitrust lawsuit it is facing over allegedly suppressed wages, saying the class is legally defective because the plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit cannot represent the group of fighters.
March 07, 2025
In this week's Off The Bench, NASCAR insists that the two teams suing it are the real antitrust bullies, the ACC keeps two valued and valuable members in the fold, and a baseball player ends his court fight to play another year in college.
March 05, 2025
A Nevada federal judge has awarded more than $115 million to the attorneys who struck a $375 million settlement with the UFC on behalf of more than 1,100 fighters alleging vast wage suppression, nodding to the considerable effort involved in litigating the decade-long case.
February 07, 2025
In this week's Off The Bench, the NCAA changes course to accommodate a presidential ban on transgender women athletes, Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter is sentenced for his gambling-driven embezzlement, and women's soccer players get restitution for abuse at the hands of their coaches and teams.
February 06, 2025
A Nevada federal judge granted final approval Thursday to a $375 million settlement in a more than a decade-long class action in which fighters accused UFC of suppressing their wages, according to a lead attorney on the case.