MICHAEL CHIESA WANTS ALL OF CONOR MCGREGOR’S UFC 229 EARNINGS
Michael Chiesa’s Lawsuit Against Conor McGregor Revealed
The UFC 223 bus episode is not in the rear-view mirror only yet for Conor McGregor. The Irish superstar was sued by Michael Chiesa after he had been injured in the dolly-throwing episode back at UFC 223, and we have details of the litigation. TMZ has been the first to report the details of the litigation in a movie that you are able to watch at the conclusion of this report.
As stated by the TMZ report, Chiesa is claiming that the UFC 223 dolly incident was a publicity stunt on the part of McGregor, and now Chiesa wants all of McGregor’s gains from his mega struggle against Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229. According to the litigation, the”Son of Sam” law in New York applies to the episode, where someone convicted of a crime can’t utilize that offense to profit. According to the lawsuit, Chiesa considers McGregor profited in the UFC 223 episode, partly because it drew more attention to the card, and also because the UFC utilized footage of the bus attack to market the McGregor vs. Nurmagomedov fight at UFC 229. Remember that the UFC 229 pay-per-view was the largest selling PPV the UFC has ever done, so McGregor made countless dollars for that struggle, and Chiesa wants a piece of this pie.
Will Chiesa’s suit succeed? Who knows now, and it’s possible this is eventually settled out of court. But obviously Chiesa was granted legal advice to carry this as far as he could go and he will try and make some cash from it, also it’s difficult to blame him believing he had been legally injured in the bus attack. Thus far, fans and press have laughed off Chiesa’s lawsuit. But everyone should recall Chiesa obtained facial cuts in the bus strike that forced him off the card. He later fought at UFC 226 and dropped by submssion to Anthony Pettis, and he should feel like he got the raw end of the offer. Chiesa is next scheduled to face Carlos Condit at the year-end UFC 232 card, but using this litigation in your mind you need to wonder whether it will affect him.
As for McGregor, he’s still dealing with the Nevada Athletic Commission in relation to this UFC 229 episode where Nurmagomedov jumped over the fence. It has been rumored McGregor plans to fight in MMA again in 2019, but till we see what kind of sanction he’ll get for UFC 229 it is hard to say exactly when he’ll compete again, and against who. The bus attack clearly did not hurt McGregor’s stock as much as it hurt some of the other fighters daily, such as Rose Namajunas, who states the bus attack mentally scarred her and that has not fought because UFC 223. While McGregor has left countless since then, other fighters who day including Ray Borg were badly affected by the episode, and it is hard to blame people who were hurt in the attack to attempt to sue McGregor and determine what happens in the courts.
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