UFC, Dana White Seek Dismissal of Mark Hunt’s Lawsuit

Lawyers for UFC and Dana White have filed a motion to have Mark Hunt’s lawsuit against them dismissed. MMAjunkie reports that the filing from Las Vegas-based firm Campbell and Williams claims that Hunt has failed to prove his claims that White, the UFC and Brock Lesnar conspired to rob him of a fair fight. The suit was filed after Lesnar tested failed drug tests in connection to their UFC 200 bout, which Lesnar won via unanimous decision before it was overturned due to the test results.

The motion by the firm argues that Hunt was unable to establish a link “between the injury asserted and the purported injurious conduct” and leveled an “utter dearth of specific allegations” against White. It says that Hunt ignores in his lawsuit “the inconvenient fact that the strict anti-doping drug-testing procedures implemented by Zuffa and administered by the independent USADA are the vehicle by which cheating fighters have been exposed and punished.”

The suit also says that Hunt “nonetheless seeks to employ the heavy hand of the federal RICO statutes to stigmatize defendants and other individuals with baseless allegations of quasi-criminal conduct in the hopes of reaping a windfall in the form of treble damages. Unfortunately for Hunt, his RICO claims are fatally defective.” It claims that Hunt has no evidence that either directly or indirectly proves that White and the company tried to cause him harm and claims that Hunt’s alleged lost opportunities were “contingent events that may – or may not – occur in the future depending on a multitude of factors.”

The filing also says that Hunt “never identifies a single provision of either contract that Zuffa purportedly failed to perform” in relation to Hunt’s claims of a breach of contract and says the UFC can’t be held directly responsible for Lesnar’s drug test failures.