Could Michael Bisping sue the UFC for losing an eye to TRT Vitor?

[The Chosen]

The UFC allowed Vitor to be on TRT and as a result Bisping lost an eye. Is there a case to sue there if Bispong wasn’t a total UFC shill?

 

[KOByFootStomp]

He could definitely sue them, doesn't mean he'd win.

Edit: Mark Hunt sued for Brock Lesnar being allowed to fight him despite failing drug tests. Don't think he won.

 

[TheMessiah]

TRT was legal at the time

 

[accolyte1022]

That which does not kill us makes us stronger

 

[Straatblaffer]

I am pretty sure he loses both the lawsuit and his job.

 

[Marko Polo]

Didn’t Hunto try the same thing with Lesnar?

That was one of my favourite timelines

 

[Garnet_StrongerThanYou]

Bisping is a company man.

When he lost his eye the UFC sent him to a special doctor so he could get licensed and fight.

He loves the UFC and has a good relationship with Dana.

He wouldn’t throw that away.

 

[Aurelian]

Didn’t Hunto try the same thing with Lesnar?

That was one of my favourite timelines

Hunt made 800k at UFC 200 and then spent it all on lawyers trying to sue the UFC. A man who gets a main event fight with fucking Brock Lesnar didn't appreciate the push.

 

[GORO]

I pretty sure it commission not in ufc

 

[JayPettryMMA]

The injury happened in early 2013, and it happened in Brazil. Way past the statute of limitations, and Bisping assumed the risk of injury by engaging in combat.

 

[The Chosen]

The injury happened in early 2013, and it happened in Brazil. Way past the statute of limitations, and Bisping assumed the risk of injury by engaging in combat.

I mean if there was an unsafe work environment and it caused life-long injury that could still hold up

 

[ShreddinMMA]

In hindsight, I don't think any fighter ever suffered as much due to roids/TRT users as Bisping did.

 

[MeatWagon06]

Wasn’t it on the Commissions at the time that allowed the exemptions.

Bisping also chose the life of a fighter and the consequences that can come from that. Now he’s got a baller job in the sport he loves.

 

[13Seconds]

Bisping later won the title, got paid a fuckload of money in his GSP fight and now works as a commentator in the UFC.

Imma go out on a limb and say he's pretty happy with the organisation.

 

[Leonard Haid]

That which does not kill us makes us stronger

Yeah, it it wasn't for Vitor, Bisping never would have become champ.

 

[TempleoftheDog]

I pretty sure it commission not in ufc

This imo as a layman, and not a lawyer, seems like the only reasonable response to the question in the title.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Occupational hazard

 

[Prologue]

Bisping later won the title, got paid a fuckload of money in his GSP fight and now works as a commentator in the UFC.

Imma go out on a limb and say he's pretty happy with the organisation.

This. The opportunities that played out for him were/are probably worth more than he'd sue for, and that doesn't even factor in the cost of going up against the UFC's legal team.

 

[El Fernas]

He could definitely sue them, doesn't mean he'd win.

Edit: Mark Hunt sued for Brock Lesnar being allowed to fight him despite failing drug tests. Don't think he won.

You just basically /Thread'd this, he can sue the UFC but most likely wont win, in the case of Mark Hunt he probably had a better case because 1 Lesnar tested positive and 2, they knowingly that he most likely would cheat still got him the special exemption, it wasnt like Vitor's sort of general TRT exemption for anyone applying for it at the time, Lesnar's was a pass to cheat USADA testing.

 

[C0NCH3TO]

If things go pretty sour and gets kicked out like a scrub, he might. No way he does that now, not everybody is given a good paying job in the UFC after retirement from MMA. He is doing great as of now.