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If You Can't Beat Em In the Cage, Call In the Lawyers

“Small things make base men proud.”

- (Henry VI, Act IV, Scene I)

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

- (Henry VI, Act IV, Scene II)

William Shakespeare

According to Yahoo Sports Kevin Iole, ZUFFA LLC, the parent company of the UFC and WEC, are in the process of suing MMA agent Ken Pavia and upstart rival promotion Bellator, alleging that Pavia shared trade secrets and documents to help Bellator:

The suit, which was filed Wednesday in Clark County District Court, alleges that Pavia delivered confidential contracts, including fighter agreements, to Bellator after being asked to do so in a July 4 email to him from Bellator founder Bjorn Rebney.

An email which ZUFFA says was sent by Rebney to Pavia on July 4 was attached as an exhibit to the 16-page suit.

The exhibit email states:

” … You’ve been great about sending us ‘All’ of the seminal docs from the UFC, so that we can re-do them and implement them for Bellator.

Please list each in terms of what it is for and how the UFC uses them/implements them.  Then I’m going to have our team Monday re-type them and we will sufficiently alter them such that they will appear to be ours and not theirs.”

How the legal team at ZUFFA would have come into the possession of the alleged emails remains unexplained.

Pavia and Bellator have at this point declined to comment on the allegations.

ZUFFA is seeking damages and an injunction to prevent Bellator from using “the assets,” whatever that may mean in the real world.

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