Zuffa Responds To Preliminary Injunction Against Couture
Zuffa, LLC, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has issued an official response to the preliminary injunction issued on Thursday that prevents UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture from promoting competing MMA events due to a violation of his non-compete agreement with the company.
Released via UFC.com:
In a ruling made early last evening, Las Vegas District Court Judge Jennifer Togliatti granted the request of Zuffa, LLC, owner of the UFC, for a preliminary injunction preventing Randy Couture and those acting in concert with him from violating Couture’s contractual commitment not to promote competing mixed martial arts events.
Specifically, Judge Togliatti agreed that it appeared Couture had violated his non-compete agreement with Zuffa by promoting the International Fight League’s (IFL) upcoming event to be staged Friday, February 29, 2008.
Judge Togliatti also granted Zuffa’s request to immediately conduct a deposition examination of Couture regarding other claimed violations of his one year non-compete agreement.
Zuffa attorneys, Donald Campbell and Colby Williams, stated they look forward to examining Couture under oath regarding what they termed “Couture’s chronic and brazen violations of his contractual obligations to Zuffa.”
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The whole Couture saga is becoming increasingly boring, kind of like the politics that boxing has endured for so many years.
The UFC should do the “stand-up” thing and just let Randy out of his contract. They are only hurting their credibility with the fans who will always support the fighter before the organization. Randy has produced a lot of revenue for the UFC and they should be thankful. Just part ways and be done with it – the fans will accept that a lot more than a drag-out battle. Plus, the UFC needs to really stay on good terms with their fans because there are a few quality organizations giving them a run for the money right now. Like I said, the fans will follow the fighters, not the organizations.
Well said SourSpiel! Let Randy go already and bring on the Fedor fight. This is the fight the fans want and it will be a fight to go down in history as one of the best!