UFC fight being investigated

Issac Dulgarian opened up as a heavy favorite on last weekend's UFC cards.
Multiple large bets were placed against him, including several that called for a first-round submission. After a lackluster effort, he tapped late in the first round.
He's been fired from the UFC and Nevada is holding his pay for the fight.

Some UFC fighters have now come forward to say they have been approached in the past to take a dive.

I recently came across a list of approximately 50 UFC fights, dating back to Diego Sanchez, that exhibited both suspicious betting patterns and a suspect finish. It was supposed to have been turned over to the FBI.

From what I gathered, Issac Dulgarian went from -280 to -130 in less than 24 hours. First round submission dropped from + 850 to only +400 in a matter of hours.

Before the fight, Dana White was contacted by IC360, a bet monitoring service, which warned him that there was some unusual betting activity on ssac Dulgarian. According to Dana White, he called the fighter and his lawyer and said, "What's going on, there's some weird action on your fight. Are you injured? Do you owe anybody money? Has anybody approached you? According to Dana White, who he referred to the fighter as the kid, said, "NO, I'm going to kill this guy"

After Issac's poor take-down attempt, the fight ends quickly in the first round as his opponent puts him in an uncontested rear-naked choke.

It's important to note the uncontested part, as it should be 2nd nature for a fighter to peel the arm down. Even according to the commentator(Michael Chiesa), as the fight was in progress, his opponent's top hand was right there for the taking.


Dana White claims he immediately contacted the FBI.

For now, he's innocent until proven guilty; however, it's looking really bad considering the unusual betting activity that correlated with what happened and the ultra-poor performance by Issac Dulgarian.

Apparently, some of the books took down the line due to the heavy movement, and some of the bigger books have even refunded losing tickets on this fight.