The UFC’s $375 Million Settlement Has Paid $237.4 Million to 984 of 1,088 Fighters, With a Projected Median of $85,864 — 104 Are Still Held Up by Bank Details, Legal Disputes and Sanctions Rules. Fans Were Never in the Class, and the Post-2017 Fighters’ Case Has No Trial Date

If you are a fighter in the class and filed a claim by June 16, 2025, the administrator reports that more than 90% of claimants have been paid; for the rest, no deadline or date has been published. The update of March 31, 2026 on the official site reads: “To date, payments totaling $237,386,515.53 have been issued to 984 claimants in 44 countries. This represents the distribution of over 90% of the available funds to more than 90% of claimants.” More than 70% went by electronic transfer, and the administrator says “all of the distributed funds have been sent to the correct accounts as requested by the claimants.” An earlier update, dated February 4, 2026 on class counsel Berger Montague’s site, reported $226,957,700.90 paid to 942 claimants in 40 countries. On September 27, 2026, the March 31 update is still the newest on the official site.

The other 104 of the 1,088 claimants fall into five groups, per that update: 15 whose banks asked for more information after a payment was attempted; 25 whose payment instructions are under review; 37 with errors or changes in their ACH or wire instructions, who may be offered a check instead; 10 with legal issues such as competing claims from spouses or tax authorities, a claimant who died without a will, a divorce or child-support obligations — “Sending these funds may need court intervention”; and 17 who live in countries under U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, where timing “is uncertain and will likely require court intervention.” By our arithmetic, about $13.5 million of the $250.85 million net fund had not been paid on March 31, 2026.

So what is the “UFC settlement payout date”? Distribution was authorized by Judge Boulware’s October 3, 2025 order, which adopted the administrator’s allocations and ruled that “All checks that are not cashed within 90 days after the issue date will become void”; class members who do not cash in time “will irrevocably forfeit all recovery,” though Angeion may reissue a check “for good cause shown.” The same order says: “No further claims received by Angeion shall be allowed.” No filing we read sets a date for the last payments, and the newest entry on the CourtListener copy of the Le docket is a motion to appoint a special master filed August 5, 2026 (ECF 1076), whose text is not public and on which no ruling appears. If money is left at the end, class counsel will ask the court for a second distribution or, if that is not economical, a cy pres payment to a charity, under the Plan of Allocation. Claimants with questions: info@UFCFighterClassAction.com or 1-866-955-5564.

This is a fighters-only settlement. The class the court certified on August 9, 2023, repeated in the Final Judgment, is: “All persons who competed in one or more live professional UFC-promoted mixed-martial arts (‘MMA’) bouts taking place or broadcast in the United States from December 16, 2010 to June 30, 2017.” Excluded are people who are not U.S. residents or citizens “unless the UFC paid such persons for competing in a bout fought in the United States.” The lawsuit claimed the UFC used an anticompetitive scheme to hold down fighter pay; the UFC denied it, and the settlement is not a finding either way. By that definition, viewers, pay-per-view buyers and ticket buyers are not class members, and the money goes only to class members who filed. Angeion mailed prepopulated claim forms on May 2, 2025 to the 1,121 class members for whom it had valid addresses; 1,088 filed, one of them after the deadline and admitted by the court as a late claim, just over 97%. That deadline has passed. The chance to opt out came earlier, with the class notice sent under a November 17, 2023 order; the court found that no one opted out.

Many people searching for a “UFC class action lawsuit payout” are fans, and there is now a case about them — but it has produced no money. On February 26, 2026, Alana Costantino and Kyle Nicholson filed Costantino v. Zuffa LLC, No. 2:26-cv-00539, in the same court against Zuffa, TKO Group Holdings, TKO Operating Company and Endeavor Group Holdings. The complaint says the defendants “have forced Plaintiffs and Class Members to pay inflated prices in order to view pay-per-view-level offerings of mixed martial arts events, and more recently, to subscribe to the streaming service Paramount+.” It proposes a PPV Class — “All persons and entities within the Relevant States who purchased a UFC PPV during the limitations period, as determined by the Court, through January 1, 2026” — plus a Paramount+ streaming class and a nationwide injunctive class.

TKO’s quarterly report for the period ended June 30, 2026 says two more plaintiffs joined in an amended complaint on May 18, 2026, and that “On July 21, 2026, Zuffa moved to dismiss Costantino and to compel the matter to arbitration.” A court order set the plaintiffs’ response for September 4 and the reply for October 2, 2026. No class has been certified, there is no settlement and there is no claim form. A website or message offering UFC pay-per-view settlement money today is not describing any court-approved payout.

In the UFC lawsuit settlement signed September 26, 2024, the UFC agreed to pay $375 million in three $125 million installments, the last due no later than June 30, 2025; TKO says it completed payment in June 2025. The deal replaced an earlier settlement dated April 24, 2024 that would also have resolved the Johnson case and that Judge Boulware refused to preliminarily approve on July 30, 2024; class counsel put that deal at $335 million. The ledger below is from plaintiffs’ September 19, 2025 disbursement motion, which the court granted.

The court awarded fees of 30.72% of the fund — $115.2 million plus interest — and $9,572,685.17 in expenses. Each of the five class representatives (Cung Le, Jon Fitch, Brandon Vera, Luis Javier Vazquez and Kyle Kingsbury) received a $250,000 service award, and Nathan Quarry $250,000 under the settlement agreement for his separate identity-rights claim. The FAQ says class members do not pay these fees and costs out of their own pocket.

Under the Plan of Allocation, 70% of the net fund ($175,596,698.94) was divided in proportion to each claimant’s UFC pay for bouts in the class period and 30% ($75,255,728.12) in proportion to the number of bouts, with a $15,000 minimum. The 1,088 claims covered $538,853,643.23 in pay and 5,318 bouts. The administrator’s projections: average $230,562.89, median $85,863.57, highest $10,313,690.73, lowest $16,106.36. The notice had estimated 40% to 80% of each fighter’s UFC bout pay in the period; by our arithmetic the net fund equals 46.6% of the $538.85 million total. Thirty-seven claimants disputed the prepopulated pay or bout figures; nine documented an adjustment right away and 28 received deficiency notices, and in the end Angeion found all 1,088 claims valid, none rejected. The only objection to the settlement was filed late and overruled, the copy of the docket we read shows no notice of appeal, and the Final Judgment dismissed the case, with the court keeping jurisdiction over the distribution.

Johnson v. Zuffa, LLC, No. 2:21-cv-01189-RFB-BNW, before the same judge, was filed in June 2021 on behalf of a proposed class of fighters in UFC bouts from July 1, 2017 to the present; the named plaintiffs are now Kajan Johnson, Clarence Dollaway and Tristan Connelly. TKO describes it as alleging “substantially similar claims to the Le case” and seeking damages and injunctive relief. The Le release carves out claims pursued in Johnson, so the $375 million settlement did not end it. Nothing has been decided on the merits: the court denied the UFC’s motion to dismiss on September 30, 2022, no class has been certified, and TKO’s latest quarterly report says “No trial date has been set in the Johnson action and the parties are in the midst of the discovery process.”

In 2026 the case has turned on whether evidence was destroyed. On February 25, 2026 the plaintiffs moved for sanctions under Federal Rules 26 and 37; the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, one of their firms, says they asked for a default judgment and told the court that TKO, Endeavor and Zuffa “destroyed years of critical evidence.” The court held spoliation hearings in February and from June 30 to July 2, 2026. On July 9, 2026 Judge Boulware dismissed his court-appointed forensic expert, Eric Wedin, finding mistakes that made his report unreliable, and denied the sanctions motion “without prejudice and with leave to re-file after the close of discovery” — not a ruling for or against sanctions. At a September 3, 2026 status conference he ordered sworn answers about a previously undisclosed phone belonging to Dana White, found that expert testimony is needed on production protocols, on signs of data destruction and on the severity of any sanctions, and set a hearing for the parties’ forensic experts on October 8 and 9, 2026. The court noted that the defendants’ objections to the spoliation proceedings are preserved. Document production is to be substantially complete by September 30, 2026 for the Zuffa defendants and October 30, 2026 for Endeavor.

Any money for post-2017 fighters would require a settlement or a judgment, and neither is in sight on the schedules filed August 20, 2026. The defendants propose a class certification motion on October 25, 2027, their opposition on December 20, 2027 and replies on January 27, 2028, with summary judgment after the class ruling; the plaintiffs want any sanctions motion decided before class certification. The docket entries we read, through September 22, 2026, show no order adopting either schedule. Two related fighter cases are pending before the same judge: Cirkunovs v. Zuffa, No. 2:25-cv-00914, filed May 23, 2025 for post-2017 fighters whose contracts contain arbitration clauses or class-action waivers, which TKO says is stayed while the defendants appeal an order allowing discovery before any ruling on arbitration; and Davis v. Zuffa, No. 2:25-cv-00946, filed May 29, 2025 by Professional Fighters League fighter Phil Davis for fighters of other promotions, which seeks no money, only changes to UFC practices, and survived a motion to dismiss on March 31, 2026.

The court-authorized site is UFCFighterClassAction.com, run by Angeion Group: UFC Fighter Class Action, c/o Class Action Administrator, 1650 Arch Street, Suite 2210, Philadelphia, PA 19103; info@UFCFighterClassAction.com; 1-866-955-5564. Its “Distribution Status” page asks for the Notice ID and Confirmation Code printed on a class member’s personalized notice; the Important Documents page also lists IRS Forms W-9 and W-8BEN for the claim process. UFCClassAction.com is an older information site about the lawsuit that names the fighters’ law firms; its pages still describe the case as it stood before class certification, and it sends visitors to the administrator for official notices and claims. Neither site takes claims today.

Two warnings from the record. The administrator’s FAQ says some companies offer to help file claims in exchange for part of the recovery and that class members “do not need to use such companies to file a claim in this case”; the filing period is over anyway. And Yahoo Sports reported in September 2025 that the Mixed Martial Arts Fighters Association warned fighters that some managers might try to claim a percentage of their settlement checks.

Keep the cases apart: the $375 million, the 2010–2017 bout window, the June 16, 2025 deadline and the payments all belong to Le v. Zuffa only. Johnson, Cirkunovs, Davis and Costantino have no settlement, no fund and no claim form.