UFC fighter Taila Santos has been accused by two former coaches and a manager of not paying them for her past three UFC bouts, including a 125-pound title fight with Valentina Shevchenko, but Santos denies the accusations.
Local news outlet “O Município de Blumenau” first reported the situation.
Santos’ former head coach and manager Marcelo Brigadeiro claims Santos of not fulfilling their contract after parting ways with his gym over a year ago, including not paying his percentage for her fights with Roxanne Modafferi, Joanne Wood and Shevchenko. Brigadeiro told MMA Fighting he will file a lawsuit in the coming weeks.
Marcio Malko, who has coached Santos for those three contests, already filed a lawsuit. MMA Fighting obtained the suit, in which Malko state the UFC flyweight paid him for the Modafferi and Wood training camps, but refused to pay after challenging Shevchenko for the title in Singapore in June. According to the lawsuit, Malko is asking for 20 percent of her UFC 275 pay ($150,000 flat purse, and $32,000 of the “Athlete Outfitting Policy”), a total of $36,400.
Patricio Barbosa Farias, a brown belt in jiu-jitsu and the brother of Santos’ husband and coach Pedro Barbosa Farias, told MMA Fighting he was left with a R$15,000 debt ($2,935) after not fulfilling a verbal agreement to train her after leaving Malko’s team.
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