The following information was obtained in an published article by Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports.  To read the original source, please click HERE .

Zuffa LLC. has filed suit against Ken Pavia, founder of MMA Agents, for passing along trade secrets and confidential Zuffa documents to Bellator Fighting Championships.  In the suit, it alleges that Bellator, who is listed as a co- defendant, used the documents to help run their promotion.

According to documents filed Wednesday in Clark County District Court, Pavla passed along confidential contracts, including fighter agreements, after being asked to do so by Bellator CEO Bjron Rebney in an email sent on July 4.

Pavia responded to Yahoo! Sports Thursday via text message saying “I want to get a better understanding about this before I comment.  Rebney referred all calls to Bellator’s attorney Patrick English, stating he didn’t know enough about the suit to comment.

An email, allegedly sent from Rebney to Pavla, was attached as an exhibit in the 16 page suit filed by Zuffa.  In the email, Rebney wrote “…You’ve been great about sending us ‘All’ of the seminal docs from the UFC, so that we can re-do them and implement them for Bellator.”

Later, in the same email allegedly sent from Rebney to Pavla, Rebney stated ““Please list each in terms of what it is for and how the UFC uses them/implements them. … Then I’m going to have our team Monday re-type them and we will sufficiently alter them such that they will appear to be ours and not theirs.”

In response to Rebney’s e-mail, which was sent by Pavla who was in Las Vegas for UFC 116, Pavia said ““Still I (sic) Vegas. May take 24 hours to organize as some forms go to the guys in my office.”

The email addresses in the emails Zuffa included in the suit are the email addresses for Rebney and Pavla.

Zuffa also included other unnamed individuals and corporations that they believe were also involved in breach of contract.  According to court documents, “The improper disclosure of Zuffa’s operations documents and confidential information by Pavia, MMA Agents, and the Doe and Roe Defendants constitutes a distinct act of dominion wrongfully exerted over Zuffa’s personal property.

“The improper use by Bellator of Zuffa’s operational documents and confidential information in order to conduct its competing business operations constitutes a distinct act of dominion wrongfully exerted over Zuffa’s personal property.”

Zuffa seeks actual and punitive damages and a permanent injunction barring Bellator or Pavia from using Zuffa’s assets, including its intellectual property.

Jason’s Take— Okay, I have been singing Bellator’s praises for a long while now.  I have always thought that they would become the clear number two MMA promotion in the States.  It seriously pains me to see something like this surface.

I have had the opportunity to speak to Bjorn Rebney on multiple occasions and he has always been nothing short of a class act.  But if this ends up being true, it will be very difficult to look at the promotion, and Rebney, the same way again.

I’m at a loss of words right now, which is a rarity.

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It’s amazing to me that in 2010, we’ve become so politically correct that Sonnen’s awesome trash talk, and one sided efforts to promote a fight have been earmarked as somehow racist or xenophobic.

Now don’t get me wrong, Sonnen has made some comments that are blatantly false, such as stating that he’s never been beaten by a middleweight (Demian Meia and Paulo Filho would disagree) or that his uncle won an NBA championship with either the Jazz or Suns (Neither of which have won NBA championships).

But to blast Sonnen as somehow making this about race, when it’s obviously about Anderson Silva’s bizarre and blatantly disrespectful behavior towards the fans, Dana White, and his past few opponents, insults everyone with an IQ above 95. (For reference check out the recent UFC 117 Conference call where he spent the first half giving one word answers)

To insinuate that Chael is using codewords or hidden racist messages is absurd. He’s made fun of Silva’s dress sense, refusal to speak English (which you can prove with a simple Youtube search), and his clownish behavior in Abu Dhabi, as well as his training partners.

The two quotes that seem to be getting everyone riled up were his reference to Ed Soares praying to a Pygmy god, and Portuguese being easy to speak—neither of which are racist, or on par with anything you would hear at ANY comedy open mic across the country (and as a professional Comic, I would know).

And as if that’s not bad enough, Silva and Ed Soares the two main targets for the last few months have both said that they think Sonnen’s trash talk is funny. If the guys getting hammered by these verbal bombs don’t think they’re offensive, where the EFF does The Huffington Post get off?

If anything, Sonnen’s trash talk reminds me most of the Diaz brothers who have also mentioned their lack of respect for opponents and reiterated that this is THE FIGHT BUSINESS! 

I, for one, appreciate Sonnen for making me laugh almost every day leading up to this fight making, what is probably going to be a VERY boring fight, somewhat interesting.

I just wish we lived in a World where we were a little less sensitive and didn’t use race baiting to sell articles and magazines.

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