Alvarez Heads to Court on Friday
Eddie Alvarez will be heading to court on Friday to find out
whether or the US District Court in New Jersey agrees that Bellator failed to
match a Zuffa contract and whether that means that Alvarez will be able to
fight with Zuffa at all. Reporting in MMA Fighting reveals that a memorandum
filed by Alvarez's attorney's claims that Bellator made changes in their
contract to try to match what Zuffa was offering, but that the contract still
falls short and that honoring it at the expense of passing up the fight for
Zuffa would cause the fighter irreparable harm.
UFC guaranteed the fighter one fight minimum on network
television. According to the reporting, Bellator was only able to guarantee
that the fighter would appear on Spike TV, a popular network that still has a
much smaller reach than regular network television. The reporting also reveals
that the contract Bellator offered, according to Alvarez's attorneys, didn't
match up with what Zuffa offered in terms of pay-per-view advantages. The UFC
contract, according to the reporting, would have given Alvarez a chance to get
some of the revenue for the pay-per-view sales in events in which he fought.
The UFC contract was impressive, as demonstrated in the
report. Alvarez would get $250,000 for singing the deal. He would also get
$70,000 as a purse for the fight and another $70,000 if he won. This would
cover the first fight. If Alvarez was to win and keep on winning, the deal
would become more lucrative as he continued on in the contract.
Alvarez will need to get court permission if Zuffa is to
allow him fight in UFC 159. The reporting says that the permission has to be
given by January 27. The fight is scheduled for April 27.
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