Pace Intellectual Property, Sports & Entertainment Law Forum Volume 8 Issue 1 Fall 2017 Article 1 September 2017 The Justice of Unequal Pay in the UFC: An In-Depth Analysis of the Fighters’ Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit Against the UFC and the Misplaced Support of the Proposed Muhammad Ali Expansion Act Hunter Sundberg Nova Southeastern University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/pipself Part of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Commons, Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons, and the Labor and Employment Law Commons Recommended Citation Hunter Sundberg, The Justice of Unequal Pay in the UFC: An In-Depth Analysis of the Fighters’ Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit Against the UFC and the Misplaced Support of the Proposed Muhammad Ali Expansion Act, 8 Pace. Intell. Prop. Sports & Ent. L.F. 1 (2017). Available at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/pipself/vol8/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law at DigitalCommons@Pace. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pace Intellectual Property, Sports & Entertainment Law Forum by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Pace. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Justice of Unequal Pay in the UFC: An In-Depth Analysis of the Fighters’ Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit Against the UFC and the Misplaced Support of the Proposed Muhammad Ali Expansion Act Abstract In 2016, the Ultimate Fighting Championships (“UFC”) set the record for the largest sale in sports history. The UFC, the primary promotion company of the once fringe sport of mixed martial arts (“MMA”) had matured into a mammoth 4 billion dollar promotion, but not without some growing pains.