It seems Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson has lost a significant amount of money in one of the UFC’s ongoing antitrust lawsuits—Le vs. Zuffa—which has recently been settled for a hefty $375 million. “They [the UFC] just lost their antitrust lawsuit. I was in that motherf—er,” Jackson revealed to influencer Bradley Martyn on the latter’s YouTube channel. This sparked Martyn’s curiosity about the damages the UFC has agreed to pay to the fighters involved. “So what is that, that’s like what, like 50-something million or 150 million?” the fitness influencer asked.

“No, 350 million,” Jackson corrected him, before explaining how his potential payout went from eight figures to significantly less. “This is what happened. When the case first started it was only a few of us in there so I first, originally, got told like they brought me in, the only reason they brought me in, they said ‘yeah your cut is going to be $60 million.’ I was like ‘all right, sign me up, right,'” he said.

But for reasons that aren’t totally clear- perhaps the number of litigants increased- which lowered Jackson’s share, the former 205lbs champ admitted that “my cut is now not 60 million”.

It is unclear how much Jackson’s total share of the payout will be, but it won’t even be close to $60 million or even $6 million or even $600k. After all, the total payout for the Le case will be divided among over 1,200 fighters. The amount won’t be divided equally among fighters in the suit either.

Factors such as how long a fighter was in the UFC and what their pay was when there will determine who gets how much. Not to mention legal and administrative coses will also be deduced from the $375 million payout. But given ‘Rampage’s payout is likely to be at least in high five figures and may well be in the low six figures.

To be fair to the litigants and the lawyers, they had demanded around $1.6 billion in damages from the Dana White-led promotion. But the fighters chose to settle for a mere 22% percent of their original $1.6 billion demand rather than go to trial, which would take time with the actual trial and the appeals. Not to mention there is a chance, perhaps a slim one, that the fighters may have lost the suit. Instead, the litigants chose to take less money today. A bird in had, as they say. However, this was not the end of the UFC’s legal troubles.

The other anti-trust lawsuit against Dana White and co.

The UFC is also involved in another class-action lawsuit– Johnson vs. Zuffa. The main difference between the Le case and the Johnson case is that the former is representing fighters who fought under the Zuffa umbrella from December 16, 2010 to June 30, 2017.

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On the other hand, the Johnson case represents fighters from July 1, 2017 to the present. As far as their accusations, both suits allege the UFC of suppressing fighter wages, using unfair contract practices, and using monopolistic tactics.

According to the lawsuits’ official website, ‘UFCclassaction.com’, “Like the Le action, the lawsuit filed by Johnson and Dollaway alleges that Zuffa violated antitrust laws by paying UFC fighters far less than they were entitled to receive and eliminating or hurting other MMA promoters.” 

While the Le case has not been resolved, the Johnson suit is still ongoing. But given what it did in the Le case, the UFC will probably offer the Johnson litigants a settlement too. What do you think about ‘Rampage’ Jackson’s revelations about his role in the UFC anti-trust lawsuit?