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“If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.” A quote attributed to NASCAR driver Richard Petty, as well as every other major name in the sports world, it rings true for the fight game as well. We will save the coverage of the in-cage entertainment for another day, with various displays of “Dundasso” on full display even at the highest echelon of the sport. Instead, it is the cheating of many figures outside of the cage and ring that merits its own magnifying glass.
While an overwhelming majority of Fight Finder interactions between submitter and staff go swimmingly, some can grow complicated. Sadly, the sport of MMA is not immune to corruption, as fighters, management teams and even promoters try to put one over on each other. The Fight Finder team is a diligent one, who do not simply breeze through and rubber stamp requests that come to our digital doorsteps.
When things go wrong for submissions, sometimes they go very wrong. Fighters or their representatives have threatened the safety (and eyebrows) of international staff members, attempted to intimidate the team with potential legal action, harassed staff on their private communications, and even sought to bribe members to look the other way. Some submitters are more discreet than others, but it does not make what they do less troubling.
There are levels to this game when it comes to combat, and the same goes for when it comes to fraudulent submissions. It is one thing to pass off a false claim of a fight taking place or not taking place. It is quite another to go through the effort to falsify documents – judges’ scoring sheets are but one previous example. It is time for some more show and tell. Like before, the identities of the fighters and submitters have been redacted, but the images and documents are otherwise just as we have received them.
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