Episode 663: Fighters are starting to get that class action settlement money

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The money has finally started to roll in for fighters after the UFC agreed to settle that pesky class action lawsuit for $375 million back in February. Some are going to get millions. Some will only get a few thousand. Still, must feel pretty weird to get the bag after being owed it for more than a decade. To some, it might seem like free money, while others are having a more complicated time with it. Plus, it’s Carlos Ulberg vs. Dominick Reyes this weekend in Perth. It actually might turn out to be kind of an important fight, considering the junk heap that is the UFC light heavyweight Top 15. Volkan Oezdemir is still in the Top 10, you guys. Volkan Oezdemir! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast.
0:10.9	And now your host, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.
0:18.2	That's right.
0:19.6	You're listening to another episode of the Co-main event Mixed Martial Arts podcast.
0:24.9	I'm Chad Dundas.
0:26.2	That's Ben Folks.
0:27.3	We're both longtime MMA journalists.
0:30.2	And for the last 13 years, we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally wonderful world of
0:39.7	mixed martial arts.
0:41.7	Ben Folks this weekend, back to business.
0:44.6	UFC fight night Carlos Ullberg versus Dominic Reyes.
0:48.9	That's going to be down there in Perth, Australia at the Rack Arena, granddaddy of them all.
0:54.2	Relatively important, light heavyweight fight. in Perth, Australia at the Rack Arena, granddaddy of them all. Yeah.
1:00.4	Relatively important, light, heavyweight fight, I suppose, that we're going to talk about this week and we'll get into some listener mail coming up in the middle of the show like we always do.
1:07.0	And then maybe in the second half of the show, talk about money, fighters.
1:15.6	Starting to get some of that class action lawsuit money.
1:19.5	Money.
1:19.8	Starting to hit the streets.
1:22.5	So that's...
1:23.1	Let me tell you, I heard about it that the money was actually starting to come in now from the big
1:28.5	homie Danny Downs, a longtime friend of the podcast, who he sent me a screenshot of the email
1:35.8	telling him like, all right, here you go. This is from this class action lawsuit. Below is the
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