Now 10 months into a class-action lawsuit against UFC parent Zuffa, WSOF welterweight Jon Fitch is getting used to the ins and outs of a courtroom fight. It’s one he says won’t be over until the industry-leader changes the way it does business.

“We want to put pressure on them to make them change, because if they don’t, in four years, there will just be another suit filed,” Fitch (26-7-1), who next fights Yushin Okami (30-9) at WSOF 24, told MMAjunkie. “This will be an ongoing thing forever and ever.”

Fitch wouldn’t be the first person involved in litigation to posture over its outcome, but the veteran fighter is encouraged by recent developments.

In July, Zuffa was denied a recent motion to keep the plaintiffs from potentially voluminous amounts of records in the anti-trust suit, meaning Fitch and other fighters, as well as their lawyers, could soon uncover a trove of information about the way it does business. And in September, the MMA promoter also was denied a motion to dismiss the suit.

Thus far, the fighters and their attorneys have won key battles, with the exception of having the case heard in Nevada, where Zuffa resides. There are more to come, however, as the case still needs to be certified as a class action suit.

In theory, the information contained in Zuffa’s records will only become public if it is used as evidence in the case. But MMA is a sport in which leaks of information are routine, leading to the question of whether Fitch thinks the privileged information will stay confidential.

“We could be found liable; we could end up in a lawsuit if we leak information out there,” he said. “But if they do find something that’s an a-ha moment, it’s most certainly going to be in the case.”

As to what the a-ha moment will be, Fitch believes Zuffa’s documents will reveal a monopoly that abuses its power, as he and the other plaintiffs allege. The central point of the anti-trust is that the MMA promoter engages in practices that are anti-competitive and discourage competition. Zuffa denies any wrongdoing and said it operates in a lawful manner.

But Fitch expects the public side of the fight promoter’s business to be contradicted by the information contained in the records.

“I think there wold be quite a large gap in what they’re saying that they’re paying people and what they’re actually making, and just the things that they do that we kind of know of with how they treat fighters and the type of pressure they put on people that I don’t really think is legal,” he said.

Many antitrust suits end before moving to trial because businesses seek to avoid such revelations. Asked whether he believes Zuffa will follow suit, Fitch said, “they could try.”

But is that something he wants?

“That’s not something I’m allowed to talk about,” he said. “The lawyers would be very mad at me.

“Ultimately, the end game here is to open up the market,” he added. “We want them to open up their contracts and we want other entities that have big money to come in and put on big shows because they can afford it. Back when Mark Cuban was trying to get into the sport, and he wanted to do Randy Couture and Fedor (Emelianenko), well, that would have been a huge card and made a lot money. But because of the way contracts are, it didn’t happen.

“There are plenty of other people like Mark Cuban who would love to put together shows. There’s a lot of money in promotions, and if you can get two or three key matchups that people want to see, an Aldo vs. McGregor or Cain Velasquez vs. Fabricio Werdum, a big money guy can come on and offer to put on that show rather than everything being controlled by one entity.”

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