MMAAA Issues Statement Responding to Cease-and-Desist Letter from Lawyers in Anti-Trust Case

The Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association has responded to a cease-and-desist order from lawyers representing a group of fighters in a class-action lawsuit against the UFC. Bloody Elbow obtained a copy of the letter, which was addressed to Bjorn Rebney and expressed concerns that the newly-formed group could hinder the ongoing anti-trust suit. The letter, from Eric Cramer and Michael Dell’Angelo of Berger & Montague, Benjamin Brown and Richard Koffman of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, and Joseph Saveri, questions the motives of the MMAAA and claim that Rebney and his representatives met with the counsel for the class-action suit a year ago seeking a share of the payout in the lawsuit.The class-action lawsuit was filed in December 2014 in US District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of Cung Le, Jon Fitch and Nate Quarry and accuses the UFC of “illegally maintaining monopoly and monopsony power by systematically eliminating competition from rival promoters, artificially suppressing fighters’ earnings from bouts and merchandising and marketing activities through restrictive contracting and other …

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