Paradigm Sports Management Company – known as the representative company for UFC Conor McGregor and Middle Champion UFC Israeli Adesanya – filed a lawsuit at Orange County, Calif. According to American media, said.
The objective of the lawsuit is the $ 3.3 million payment in advance paid to Pacquiao as well as the ban to prevent the upcoming match of Pacquiao with Errol Spence Jr. On August 21.
Paradigm Sports Management, led by President Audie Attar, allegedly in the lawsuit that the company is negotiating to Pacquiao compared to the boxing champion of 4 -weight Mikey Garcia in the next match after reaching an agreement to represent the boxer.
This did not come true after Pacquiao's business associates include long -time advisors Sean Gibbons and Winchell Campos accused of intervention, leading to Pacquiao's contract with Al Haymon's Premier Boxing Champions Company preparing to fight with Errol Spence Jr.
The plaintiff is asking to return the $ 3.3 million advance as well as additional compensation after Paradigm also lost Garcia as a customer due to the defeat in the match against Pacquiao.
“In addition to the economic losses of millions of dollars that Paradigm suffered, the reputation of the company due to Pacquiao's violations could not be calculated,” Paradigm's lawyer Judd Burstein wrote in the petition.
“As soon as Paradigm was at the peak of asserting itself as a big name in the professional boxing village, Pacquiao made the company's reputation decrease badly.”
Paradigm previously announced in February 2020 that the company started representing Pacquiao as a full service agency while working with the founding team of boxing boxing. The lawsuit that Paradigm had previously tried to arrange a separate deal with the Dazn streaming service for a multi -match contract that was broken before Attar tried to arrange Pacquiao boxing with McGregor.
When McGregor lost to Dustin Poirier in January earlier this year, which made the match against Pacquiao. So Paradigm then transferred the goal to ensure the match against Garcia.
Pacquiao later announced the match against Spence and Paradigm confirmed that the negotiations took place as well as the match arranged by PBC Company.
While Pacquiao did not make a public statement about the lawsuit, his lawyer, Dale Kinsella issued a statement over the weekend, rejected Paradigm's statements.
“The lawsuit submitted by Paradigm Sports to the California Court on Friday is a frivolous effort to intervene in Manny Pacquiao's upcoming big match and it can and will fail for many reasons,” Kinsella said in the statement. “Moreover, if Manny Pacquiao knows that Paradigm Sports does not seem to intend to fulfill his contractual obligations, he will never participate in any relationship with them.
“If this issue is actually conducted after the sixth day of the law court, Mr. Pacquiao will strongly protect his rights, assert his own statements against Paradigm Sports and seek to recover his lawyer fee.”