"Probably about one o'clock that day, we're with a company called IC 360, and they are the best bet monitoring company in the business. They reached out to us, and they told us that there was some unusual action going on with that fight - did we know anything? We didn't,"
"So what we did was, we called the fighter and his lawyer, and said, 'What's going on? There's some weird action going on in your bet, weird betting action going on with your fight. Are you injured? You owe anybody money? Has anybody approached you?' And the kid said, 'No, absolutely not. I'm going to kill this guy.' And you know, so we said, 'okay.'"
"The fight plays out and [it's a] first round finish by rear-naked choke. Literally, the first thing we did was call the FBI. So we called the FBI, I've met with the FBI twice today, so that's the whole thing."
The FBI opened an investigation into allegations that the UFC featherweight bout between Yadier del Valle and Isaac Dulgarian may have been fixed after unusual late betting activity heavily favored an early finish for del Valle. Betting-monitoring firm IC 360 alerted UFC officials to abnormal wagers. Fighters and counsel were contacted and denied injury, debts, or approaches. The bout ended in a first-round rear-naked choke submission, prompting an immediate call to the FBI and follow-up meetings. Claims that hundreds of fights are under investigation were dismissed as clickbait. Several fighters reported past approaches to throw fights, with at least one declining.
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