On Wednesday, five high-profile UFC fighters announced the beginning of a MMA fighters union.
Led by all-time great Georges St-Pierre, will be called the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association and will focus on evening the playing field between fighters and the UFC. St-Pierre was joined by Tim Kennedy, Cain Velasquez, Donald Cerrone and T.J. Dillashaw. Former Bellator owner Bjorn Rebney, in an advisory, support role, will be a part of the MMAAA.
Those five fighters will make up the association’s first board.
The three goals for the MMAAA will be earning a settlement from the UFC for current and past fighters, bring the revenue disparity from just 8 percent to 50 percent for fighters, and to negotiate a collective-bargaining agreement with the UFC.
Rebney stated that they have no yet contacted the UFC and that it’s far too early for that. Rebney referred to the UFC as an “egregious, predatory monopoly.” Rebney brought up a labor strike as a possibility as a way to take action against the UFC, though Velasquez and Kennedy both said they would not want it to come to that.
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