Tuesday, January 15, 2008

UFC Suing Couture


The parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, filed a lawsuit on Monday in Clark County, Nev. against current UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture for his comments made publicly against the company and also for allegedly breaching his contract with the UFC.The lawsuit states that Couture’s comments about the company have caused “injurious falsehood and trade disparagement,” which in turn cost them significant money, while also alleging that Couture along with several unnamed participants conspired to do significant harm to the organization.

Perhaps Randy feels that he is not being compensated fairly enough, with regards to the fact of how much the organization makes off of advertising revenue, foreign sponsorships, live gate, PPV, and delayed T.V. rights. Who can blame him it's his life that is at risk any time he steps into the octagon. I guess The UFC are not prepared to let fighters go on their own terms.

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