Major surprises await Judge Boulware in proposed $375M UFC antitrust settlement

Who gets paid first, fighters or lawyers? Plus: fascinating potential conflicts of interests.

Judge Richard Boulware

I had prepared an MMA version of War and Peace regarding a review of court documents in the proposed $375 million dollar UFC antitrust settlement.

Then a new set of court filings hit on Friday and my jaw dropped.

If you’ve read various reports — like John Nash’s excellent initial briefing of court filings — then you are probably unde…