The Sports Business Journal reports that lawyers on behalf of former UFC fighters intend to depose Dana White as part of the antitrust lawsuit ongoing in federal court in Nevada.
The lawsuit is in its discovery phase with both lawyers for the plaintiffs and lawyers for the UFC exchanging documents. Depositions involving key witnesses has commenced. Notably, the article indicates that Nate Quarry has been deposed by the defendants. Plaintiffs lawyers intend to depose Dana White in likely questioning about the UFC’s business practices which relate to their antitrust claim.
Discovery ends May 1, 2017 which means that we should see more UFC executives deposed by the plaintiffs’ attorneys as well as some of the former fighters which may include Cung Le, Jon Fitch and Brandon Vera.
The article indicates that plaintiffs’ attorneys may seek to depose executives from the new ownership group at WME-IMG as well.
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It will be interesting to see if and when they depose White. His deposition is likely imminent since he’s had a major hand in the operations of the UFC when the alleged issues have occurred. We will see if plaintiffs’ attorneys will be able to obtain his testimony from the FTC investigations as well as previous lawsuits involving the company. One might expect a lengthy deposition (i.e., multiple days) for White.
Oh boy not good
Hahahahaha…what will happen to ufc hype machine without dw and joe rogan? 4 billion to go
It’s let go from the witness stand, not let go from the UFC, Jesus Christ.