Chael Sonnen desires to know who’s asking UFC fighters to take a dive.
Following one more betting scandal within the Octagon, a number of athletes have come out of the woodwork, revealing that they’ve been provided massive sums of cash to repair fights. Amongst them is Vince Morales, who claims he was provided $70,000 to throw a combat.
Flyweight standout Vanessa Demopoulos additionally claimed that she was provided cash to repair a combat, although “her integrity may by no means.”
With so many fighters being approached, Sonnen desires to know who precisely is attempting to repair fights on MMA’s greatest stage.
“Vince Morales claims that he was provided $70,000 to repair a combat, and quite a lot of fighters got here out,” Sonnen stated on his YouTube channel. “I’m simply providing Vince’s identify as a jumping-off level. A few feminine fighters got here out and stated they have been provided cash to repair fights. Vince was most attention-grabbing to me as a result of he had a selected quantity.
“A variety of the opposite fighters that got here out with allegations that they have been paid to take a dive, it was just a little extra of a broad stroke. And I’d say whoever talked to Vince was severe. If they’d the cash labored out, there was most likely even quite a lot of different particulars.”
UFC CEO involved with FBI concerning fight-fixing allegations
Three years after the James Krause scandal rocked the UFC, the promotion is as soon as once more coping with playing shenanigans after the promotion’s betting integrity agency, IC360, detected uncommon line motion an hour earlier than Isaac Dulgarian’s prelim conflict in opposition to Yadier del Valle at UFC Vegas 110. Dulgarian was listed as a stable -250 favourite going into the day, however by the point he’d stepped contained in the Octagon, these odds dropped to -150 after a collection of bets got here in favoring del Valle.
Dulgarian misplaced the combat by way of a first-round submission.
“[IC360] reached out to us and informed us that there was some uncommon motion happening with that combat,” White informed TMZ. “‘Do we all know something?’ We didn’t. So what we did was name the fighter and his lawyer and stated, ‘What’s happening? There’s some bizarre motion happening along with your [fight] — bizarre betting motion happening along with your combat. Are you injured? Do you owe anyone cash? Has anyone approached you to, …’ And the child stated, ‘No, completely not. I’m gonna kill this man.’ So we stated, ‘OK’”
Regardless of clear indicators that one thing wasn’t proper, the UFC allowed the combat to maneuver ahead as scheduled.
“Actually the very first thing we did was name the FBI,” White stated in regards to the moments after the combat. “So we referred to as the FBI. I’ve met with the FBI twice at this time.”
Dulgarian was finally launched from the promotion following the combat, and White issued a stern warning to anybody probably concerned in fixing fights.
“You recognize, seeing issues out on the web the place fighters are popping out going, ‘Oh, I used to be approached.’ Actually? Why didn’t you inform us that, or extra importantly, inform legislation enforcement that you just have been approached?” White stated. “They’re gonna be approached now by the FBI.”
