Last week, the UFC officially answered the Complaint of the six plaintiff fighters who remain in the class action, antitrust lawsuit alleging monopolization of the market for promoting live Elite Professional MMA bouts and monopsonization of the market for Elite Professional MMA fighter services.
As the discovery process continues, a new status update released on Friday reveals that the UFC has recently produced 17,909 documents totaling 239,923 pages "containing the production of the first tranche of Zuffa's electronic fighter files." This is in addition to the more than 108,000 documents reported in November to have already been turned over including fighter, venue, and sponsor contracts, financials, and documents that were previously produced in connection with the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) investigation of the Strikeforce acquisition.