One of the points being argued during the on-going lawsuit against the UFC, is whether or not fighter contracts that are used in the case would be sealed to the public. Interestingly enough, the UFC managed to get one of the more well known managers in the industry to go to bat for them instead of the athletes.
In a document obtained by Bloody Elbow’s Paul Gift, manager Ali Abdelaziz had a declaration stating that if contract information went public, it would hurt the fighters and somehow give the promoters the “strategic advantage” during negotiations.
If that wasn’t counterintuitive and bizarre enough, he also gave fighters being at risk of “kidnapping and extortion schemes” as reason for this information to be kept from the public.