Welcome back, everybody. It is John Pollock here at Post Wrestling and very happy to have this individual joining us today

It's very rare that we get any significant insight into the structure of UFC contracts

But this individual not afraid to turn over some of those rocks and see what's underneath a pleasure to be joined by John Nash from bloodyelbo.com

John, thanks so much for taking some time to join us today. Oh, it's my pleasure

You have been doing a fantastic work throughout the years. I have told you off air

I have been a long admirer of your work in particular going into and explaining in great detail the anti-trust suits that are ongoing against the UFC

But recently you reported on some significant changes to UFC contracts that I think require a pretty big spotlight because it is

It's very alarming when you look at some of the the minor changes and major changes that could come out of it

I wanted to take our our viewers back a bit though

And pre-2017 when you're looking at sort of the state of the typical

Restrictions on a UFC contract like how restrictive would you assess these deals to be prior to

the introduction of the Sunset Clause and other

Other modifications we've seen over the years

Yeah, prior to mid-2017 is kind of the the the the spirit typical UFC contract

And a lot of people might be familiar with or at least the ideal from like the stories at the time that they're incredibly restrictive

The UFC had a lot of power over their fighters one as they forced the fighters to get their video game rights

The famous John Vitch incident they have their merchandise rights and they all that stuff in perpetuity

They own the rights to your image rights and perpetuity they can market it forever and on top of that they have at least towing provisions

Which on paper your contract has a limited amount of time. It's like five fights 20 months, right?

So in 20 months you're supposed to get five fights the general idea of the public is every three fights every year that the UFC has to give you

Now technically if they offer that but then we have to give you those fights

They if they don't offer you those fights

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