Journalist John S. Nash dropped some major news on X after digging into court documents from the UFC antitrust case. The Claims Administrator, Angeion Group, just released a breakdown of how they divided the settlement money among fighters. The numbers are wild—payouts ranged from about $16,000 to over $10.3 million, with Anderson Silva receiving the most significant share.
The original $375 million settlement pot shrank to around $251 million after lawyers took their cut and taxes got handled. That means whoever scored the biggest check walked away with roughly four percent of the entire settlement. Not too shabby for one person’s share of a class action lawsuit that covered hundreds of fighters over several years.
Nash confirmed that Silva was the fighter who hit the jackpot with that