Last week, former Bellator MMA CEO Bjorn Rebney took part in a conference call alongside Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) stars Tim Kennedy, Cain Velasquez, T.J. Dillashaw and Donald Cerrone, as well as former Welterweight champion, Georges St-Pierre, to announce the formation of Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association (MMAAA).
The association (not a union) aims to fight for the rights of UFC fighters and, more importantly, a bigger piece of the profit pie. Rebney -- who claims he will not make decisions on behalf of the group because he is an adviser -- today revealed that one of his motivating factors behind the formation of the association is to beat back against two big bullies, UFC and its new WME-IMG owners.