Mixed Martial Arts Athlete Association launched

It began with an announcement that there would be an ’industry redefining’ announcement Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. ET. A number of prominent names were scheduled to take part in a media call:

•Georges St-Pierre
•Cain Velasquez
•Tim Kennedy
•TJ Dillashaw
•Donald Cerrone, and
•Bellator founder Bjorn Rebney.

The announcement was the launch of the Mixed Martial Arts Athlete Association.

Details will emerge, but it appears that CAA and Bjorn Rebney aim to support a fighter effort to form an association.The UFC is owned by CAA’s arch rivals, WME-IMG. The association would then approach the UFC and negotiate the fighter cut of income from a reported 8% of gross to 50%. The potential for a strike was floated.

You can listen to the entire thing here, if you have two hours…

Twitter reported as it happening.

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