Mark Hunt appears to have suffered one more legal setback in his conflict with Brock Lesnar, Dana White, and the UFC.
Hunt failed to persuade the UFC and White (then promotion president and current CEO) to book him in a fight while aware of Lesnar’s use of performance-enhancing drugs prior to UFC 200 on 9 July 2016, according to a 27-page written opinion released Tuesday.
Due to this, Dorsey dismissed the remaining portions of Hunt’s complaint, which had initially been filed in 2017, was later dismissed in 2019, and was later reinstated in 2021 by an appeals court.
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Hunt was attempting to support two-year-old civil conspiracy, fraud, battery, and aiding-and-abetting battery charges. However, Dorsey granted the defendants’ request for summary judgment on all allegations, which resulted in the dismissal of the case.
The information was first revealed on X, then known as Twitter, by Conduct Detrimental’s sports law writer Jason Morrin.
Dorsey has rejected Hunt’s appeal a second time. In 2019, Dorsey rendered all but one of Hunt’s initial accusations against the UFC, White, and Lesnar with prejudice. Federal and state RICO breaches, common law fraud and aiding and abetting, breach of contract, unjust enrichment, battery and aiding and abetting, and civil conspiracy were among the accusations that were dismissed at that time.
Former UFC heavyweight champion Lesnar briefly departed WWE to compete against Hunt at UFC 200, ending a five-and-a-half-year sabbatical from the cage. Before entering the cage, Lesnar received a waiver from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s four-month drug testing window. Hunt was defeated by Lesnar by a unanimous vote, but after testing positive for a number of illegal substances, USADA and the Nevada Athletic Commission punished him for a year. The outcome against Hunt was changed to a tie.
