“The piracy of live sporting events is illegal; it kills jobs, and threatens the expansion of U.S.-based companies.” Lorenzo Fertitta, CEO of Zuffa, LLC, owner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®), prepared statement before the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. In a statement before the House Judiciary Committee in December 2009, […]
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Zuffa sues British PPV pirate
The Las Vegas Sun (H/t Bloody Elbow) reports that Zuffa filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court of Nevada on Friday against a British man, Daniel Wallace, for illegally streaming UFC PPVs over the internet. The UFC has filed a temporary restraining order prohibiting Wallace’s website, livevss.tv (associated with livevss.net), from streaming this Saturday’s UFC 120. […]
Fighter to take Shine Fights to court
Questions, Debt Remain from Shine Fights’ “Worlds Collide” event
As Shine Fights prepares for its first event since its cancelled show on May 15th, there remain unanswered questions, unfinished business and owed money from the failed “Worlds Collide” event in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Officially, Shine Fights’ May 15th event would have featured a boxer versus MMA fighter as Ricardo Mayorga was set to fight […]
Fedor Deposed and an Affliction attorney withdraws from M1/Affliction case
Last week we gave you an update on the case involving M-1 and Fedor Emelianenko suing Affliction for breach of contract due to Affliction abruptly canceling its third PPV. According to Marc Hines, the attorney for the plaintiffs, Fedor and Fedor’s manager, Vadim Finkelstein were deposed two weeks ago in Southern California. Fedor’s deposition took […]