Thanks to the UFC Anti-Trust Lawsuit, a class action suit that was lodged by a team of former UFC fighters against ZUFFA LLC, we are learning new information about how the UFC operates. A great deal of this new information comes to us thanks to an Expert Report conducted by Hal J. Singer, who is an expert witness for the Plaintiffs (fighters).
Jason Cruz of MMAPayout and Bloody Elbow’s ‘Show Money’ podcast has presented a number of passages from Singer’s report (which were recently un-redacted) on his blog. From those postings we have learned about Brock Lesnar’s champion pay-grade, Lyoto Machida’s $100K stoppage bonus, and the UFC’s secretive PPV point system.