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Ken Shamrock Adds Another "L" To His Record

Ken Shamrock

From UFC.com:

Las Vegas, NV (USA) – Zuffa, LLC, doing business as the Ultimate Fighting Championship® ("UFC®"), was awarded a legal victory today against former champion, Ken Shamrock. Shamrock, who claimed Zuffa had violated certain contractual provisions of his final fight agreement, was demanding several hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation he claimed was due and owing from the UFC. Following a trial before the Honorable Susan H. Johnson, the Court entered a sixteen page written decision concluding that Ken Shamrock was to "take nothing by way of its Complaint filed April 15, 2008, and judgment is rendered in favor of Zuffa, LLC dba the Ultimate Fighting Championship." Specifically, Judge Johnson ruled that Zuffa (1) did not breach the contract; (2) that the contract should be interpreted in manner advocated by Zuffa; and (3) that, in any event, Shamrock and his attorney/agent Rod Donohoo waived any purported breach by Zuffa.

Of course the UFC released Shamrock after his third and final loss to Tito Ortiz, and Shamrock felt that the UFC breached his contract.  To which was found to not the be case in court as the excerpt above explains.  What's even worse is that now Shamrock has to pay Zuffa's court fees due to this little nugget of information:

"The UFC has a clear and unambiguous attorney fee clause in all of its contracts with fighters to the effect, that in the event a fighter loses any contractual challenge in court, that fighter will be responsible for paying our fees. Accordingly, we will be filing a motion to seek recovery of all of our expenses and fees which were occasioned by this lawsuit."

Shamrock can't win for losing.

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Yeah, this had no other way of going down… over here you actually have actively waive it through a contract or the loser always pays the court fees.

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by 3PA on Feb 17, 2010 11:22 PM EST reply actions  

Sucks for Ken

But really, what else should he have expected? When Ifirst hear of him trying to sue Zuffa, all I could think were things like “Yeah, let me know how that works out for you”.

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by -Neil- on Feb 18, 2010 2:45 AM EST reply actions  

Man

I hate to see the guy go out like he has…but he’s only brought it on himself.

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by Kelvin Hunt on Feb 18, 2010 7:15 AM EST up reply actions  

How do you feel bad

For a guy that does so many things to himself? Because I want to feel bad for him, but I also realize that most everything that goes down for him is his own crazy self’s fault.

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by -Neil- on Feb 18, 2010 1:58 PM EST up reply actions  

he is drowning out his sorrows at the poker tables.

I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. I was building a house, I don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. Bang. "Unforgiven" I drink your milkshake. I drink it up! "There Will BE Blood"

by wolfmanshowlforever on Feb 18, 2010 8:35 PM EST reply actions  

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