After a fight-fixing allegation on the UFC Vegas 110 combat card on Nov. 1, social media exploded with unsubstantiated claims, conspiracy theories, and allegations of fight-fixing being rampant within the UFC.
Have fights been fastened within the UFC? It is arduous to say. In 2017, Korean fighter Tae Hyun Bang was sentenced to 10 months in jail for accepting a reported $92,000 bribe to throw his UFC combat with Leo Kuntz. He didn’t find yourself throwing the bout and received through cut up choice. The bribe was came upon, nevertheless, and he obtained the 10-month sentence regardless of having not gone via with the rip-off and returning the bribe cash.
The current allegation comes on the heels of the NBA federal indictments alleging rigged sports activities betting. There’s an ongoing FBI investigation into irregular betting patterns in a combat that befell at UFC Vegas 64 in 2022 involving certainly one of Jame Krause’s college students.
Whereas there have been suspicious incidents, former middleweight champion Michael Bisping adamantly says fight-fixing is not occurring within the UFC, and positively not by the combat promotion.
“The UFC just isn’t rigged. It’s not fastened. Geez, I am unable to imagine I’ve to say this,” Bisping stated on his YouTube channel. “The rationale that I’m saying it’s as a result of I see so many trolls throughout social media claiming now the UFC is rigged.”
Bisping referred to as the claims, “Absolute, God rattling nonsense.”
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“There’s lots of people on the market that like to speak sh*t, like to tear on the UFC. who they’re. It is the standard suspects,” Bisping stated. “They’re making a mountain out of a molehill as a result of this is a chance to speak badly concerning the UFC.
“Oscar De La Hoya, for instance, stated, ‘The UFC is being investigated by the FBI.’ No. The UFC referred to as the FBI.”
Within the historical past of the combat promotion, and hundreds of fights, there have solely been a handful, or much less, of credible fight-fixing allegations. And certainly one of them did not undergo with it.
“I’ve even part of the UFC for 20 years in January and I’ve by no means heard something like this,” stated the previous middleweight titleholder.
