Zuffa, LLC., the parent-company of the UFC, filed a lawsuit in the state of Nevada on Tuesday, claiming MMA legend Wanderlei Silva defamed them with comments where he claimed to have proof that the UFC has engaged in the practice of fight-fixing.
Silva wrote the following on social media, which played a part in the UFC filing a lawsuit against him.
“Fixed fights – and I can prove it! I haven’t yet dropped the bomb. I haven’t said everything I know!”
“Not content to defame the UFC in a single post, Silva apparently decided to double-down on scurrilous remarks,” Zuffa’s lawsuit alleges. “In a second post, published the same day, Silva continued his broadside attack: ‘[a]nd I’m going to fight until the end, to unmask those promoters, that are eluding people!! And cheating taking the dignity and the honor of our sport! It’s turning into ‘wwe telecte!!!’…With fight fights we have to stop Those guys, since this is the end of the line for us!!!”
You can read the lawsuit in its’ entirety by clicking here.
