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.
The fighters, led by Kajan Johnson, argued in a brief filed Saturday that the discovery in their lawsuit, as well as in a related antitrust class action filed by professional MMA fighter Mikhail Cirkunovs, will likely reveal that the arbitration clauses of defendants Zuffa LLC, TKO Operating Co. LLC dba UFC, and Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. are unenforceable.
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The fighters are represented by Michael Dell’Angelo, Eric L. Cramer, Patrick F. Madden, Robert C. Maysey, Kyla Gibboney and Joshua P. Davis of Berger Montague, Michael J. Gayan of Kemp Jones LLP, Joseph R. Saveri, Kevin E. Rayhill and Christopher Young of the Joseph Saveri Law Firm LLP, Richard A. Koffman, Benjamin D. Brown and Daniel H. Silverman of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC and W. Joseph Bruckner, Kyle J. Pozan and Brian D. Clark of Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP.
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