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Didn’t they start redoing contracts in 2017 because of the lawsuit? Isn’t that when they started the sunset clauses? But you have to know the specifics of each contract to know anything, for sure.Conor had his chance to really strike a blow for fighters if he would have gone to court when they were refusing to let him fight Mayweather. Now it looks like he's trapped in his contract like everyone else. I wonder if he signed it when the UFC was allowing sunset clauses.
It doesn't get talked about enough, but, after Ngannou left, the UFC decided it was better than to face another lawsuit that to allow sunset clauses to exist. There were a few articles talking about the UFC signing fighters to contracts without a sunset clause after the Francis debacle.
You could be two weeks from your release date. But if you re-sign, that’s another 5 years (unless stipulated otherwise in the contract).
That’s how they trapped GSP when he re-signed to fight Bisping. It was his last fight he fought in the UFC, but he was trapped. Until his sunset clause kicked in. And by then he was like 41, or something.
But you need to know the specifics, or it’s really just speculation.