10 Allegedly Fixed Fights in MMA History

[Draxton]

I think Conor vs Eddie was a work

Wee Ed made a fortune to roll over

This one always seemed fishy to me. He couldn’t have been that shook could he?

 

[Rea_ctor]

I really couldn't give a fuck mate.

You seem worked up over it - go watch it in a new light and have a think about it.

I seem worked up? I was just having a discussion then you had to reduce things to bad language, triggered over nothing you are it seems, have a calm day.

 

[trident]

There were A LOT of people saying it at the time.

There was a wink / thumbs up or something at the start of the second round that was supposed to be the signal.

I think Carwin even spoke about it, defending himself, blaming the energy drink or something for the sudden crash of energy

If a fight is a work, they wouldn't "give a signal" in front of 50 cameras. And if that fight were a work, surely after the beating Carwin put on Brock, the finish would have been more dramatic than Brock submitting a gassed out rug.

To the point of the thread, I dont know if you can call it a work, but my suspicion about Silva Sonnen I is Chael juiced way past any healthy limit, knowing he could control Anderson with that much juice flowing but also knew he would t pass even the crookedest of drug tests so he gave Anderson the triangle at the end to spare getting stripped of the title.

You have to keep in my mind had Chael won that fight against Anderson, he would have immediately been stripped. It would have been a fiasco. His stock would have been shot. His career over.

However, the beating he gave Anderson in the loss, sent his stock up and no one really cared about the failed test. He served his time and returned more popular than when he left.

Only Chael knows for sure, but when you do the math on this, it's very suspicious.

 

[E Undead]

In most sports, the fixed matchups are not the ones on the big stage. There could be tones of fixed fights on the prelims that few give even a fuck about and we may never find out

 

[613]

There was a wink / thumbs up or something at the start of the second round that was supposed to be the signal.

Just shows how stupid people are. A fucking wink and thumbs up? That's retarded

 

[ChaelSonnen]

Bendo vs. Pettis 1 was probably fixed. It can't be a coincidence that the last WEC fight had such a poetic feel to it with the ''Showtime kick'', something we've never seen replicated in high-level MMA since then.

 

[trident]

In most sports, the fixed matchups are not the ones on the big stage. There could be tones of fixed fights on the prelims that few give even a fuck about and we may never find out

I dont think there are any true fights that the UFC themselves are fixing. It makes no sense.


However it is possible that camps could fix fights and the fights I would look at are big dogs coming through

 

[dudefacemcghee]

Alvarez vs. Conor was most definitely a work. If Alvarez actually tried to win that fight, he would have gone for Conor's legs immediately as the fight started. The same strategy he used against Pettis. Instead he ignored all of his coaches' instructions. Yeah, ok.

Same can be said about Rumble vs. DC 2. You're telling me Rumble simply decided to become a wrestler against the best MMA wrestler of all time and completely gas himself out in the process?

I think rumble was done with fighting at that time and just a didn't want to get hit. I think he alluded to something like that as to why he retired.

 

[lefthighkick01]

theres a tonne of sus fights around!

Too much money to be made by people betting big money on underdogs

 

[E Undead]

I dont think there are any true fights that the UFC themselves are fixing. It makes no sense.


However it is possible that camps could fix fights and the fights I would look at are big dogs coming through

I'm mostly thinking on the betting mafia type of shit. A few years ago, some fighters made about 8k per fight regulary. Who wouldnt take 50k or something to take a loss. You dont even have to tell anyone

 

[KillerIsBack V2]

Nah...because

I can read that and still dont get how its relevant. Is there a meme im behind on?

 

[Mike]

Alvarez vs. Conor was most definitely a work. If Alvarez actually tried to win that fight, he would have gone for Conor's legs immediately as the fight started. The same strategy he used against Pettis. Instead he ignored all of his coaches' instructions. Yeah, ok.

Same can be said about Rumble vs. DC 2. You're telling me Rumble simply decided to become a wrestler against the best MMA wrestler of all time and completely gas himself out in the process?

Lol it's a conspiracy!

 

[trident]

I'm mostly thinking on the betting mafia type of shit. A few years ago, some fighters made about 8k per fight regulary. Who wouldnt take 50k or something to take a loss. You dont even have to tell anyone

There are some logistics there that have to be considered. How much can one make off of a low key fighter taking a dive? Can you pay them $50K and make $500Koff of them without drawing suspicion?

I'm sure it happens but there are reasonable obstacles. Are casinos going to take a $200K bet on an underdog undercard fighter and not be suspicious? Def tricky .

 

[WAR RANDLEMAN!]

when michael johnson adjust rnc to choke himself out better when he was taken down

@sniper @Miabetes

 

[ThatGuy7698]

This one always seemed fishy to me. He couldn’t have been that shook could he?

In fact from all the press conferences and interviews I saw leading up to that fight, Eddie was doing fine with the trash talking. It looked like he even had Conor shook a couple times with it, talking about how real men don't go on welfare and shit.

I think he just took his red panty night money and ran.

 

[E Undead]

There are some logistics there that have to be considered. How much can one make off of a low key fighter taking a dive? Can you pay them $50K and make $500Koff of them without drawing suspicion?

I'm sure it happens but there are reasonable obstacles. Are casinos going to take a $200K bet on an underdog undercard fighter and not be suspicious? Def tricky .

In most western states yes. Still, atleast in football and boxing it's sadly common to have this shit on the smaller stages, mostly because it's extremely difficult to get an eye on it if there are like 10 different smaller bets in areas with a lot of room for corruption.

 

[trident]

In most western states yes. Still, atleast in football and boxing it's sadly common to have this shit on the smaller stages, mostly because it's extremely difficult to get an eye on it if there are like 10 different smaller bets in areas with a lot of room for corruption.

That's how you hve to do it, spread it around. Money is water and water always finds a way.

 

[MrZero]

O'Maley x Soukhamthath

All Andre had to do was stand up and he would win the fight, and yet, he kept going down, then he could lose.

 

[Dana's Moonface]

This one always seemed fishy to me. He couldn’t have been that shook could he?

I was winding, but it definitely looks fishy.

Maybe Dana sent goons to threaten Eddie's family lol

 

[KeepItRealist]

One fight that always stuck out in my mind was Josh Burkman vs Dong Hyun Kim. Don't remember the fight so clearly now, but I remember that Burkman had a few opportunities to finish him and then after badly hurting Kim, instead of jumping on him, he backed off and then was losing badly and finished not long after. I doubt it was fixed. But that fight to me looked like what I imagined a fixed fight would look like. South Koreans seem to bet a lot of money on fights with Korean UFC fighters. Who knows.