 What was likely the biggest impact of the lawsuits against the UFC?
UFC's flameout from national sensation to total irrelevance is a tragedy of American sports, a cautionary tale of prudishness, heavy-handed politics, and cultural myopia. Promoters built an octagonal chain-link cage, invited eight top martial artists, and set them loose in no-holds-barred, bare-knuckles fights. UFC allowed, even promoted, all notions of bad sportsmanship: kicking a man when he's down, hitting him in the groin, choking. Soon, UFC was selling out huge arenas and drawing 300,000 pay-per-view subscribers for its quarterly competitions. UFC's promoters predicted that it would supplant boxing as America's martial art. He sent letters to all 50 governors asking them to ban ultimate fighting.
 The cost of the lawsuits drained the resources of the promoters so they didn't have the money for ads, fighters, and venues
 Being in a legal battle doesn't look good, and it made the fans distrust the organizations promoting UFC  The cost of the lawsuits drained the resources of the promoters so they didn't have the money for ads, fighters, and venues  The lawsuits took up so much time that fights were delayed long past when the fans were willing to wait until  The UFC's lawyers were tied up in TV network disputes, and were too busy to guarantee good contracts for the fighters