First of all the burden of the proof should be on the person who make a statement, especially if like in the videos I mentioned it's not presented as a possibility but as a fact.
If someone claim aliens are controlling the earth they should provide reasons why they believe it's true, I'm not the one who is supposed to disprove them.
But I'm still going to answer your question:
-if you fix your fights you are not going to willingly receive flurries of elbows to the head, you are not going to receive full power punches to the head by guys that outweighted you by 40-80 lbs that could have very well knocked you out, you are not letting a guy bite a piece of your ear off, and you are not going to come out of a fight so beaten and exhausted that you could not continue in the tournament and you had to throw the towel due to dhydatration.
Moreover people would not stomp each other heads, deliver brutal groud and pound to an already unconscious opponent and suffer all the horrorific injuries they did in the early ufc's just to advance in the bracket of a tournament they already know they are supposed to lose, especially considering it was a very low budget tournament with very little money involved.
-It didn't even made sense from a business perspective for the Gracie's to try to fix fights, if they tried to bribe someone and they refused and called them out on the spot instead they would ruin their credibility and reputation forever, and it was far from unlikely as an outcome considering how little money were involved and how disliked they were in the martial arts community at the times.
If you lose a fight you can chalk it up to a fluke and try again the next time, if you ruin your credibility it's game over, they were not dumb enough to risk like that, especially considering there was no need to, they were already confident they would win because their opponents were not prepared for BJJ while they were used to do and win style vs style No holds barred fights since forever and they perfectly knew what to expect.
It's not a coincidence that Renzo dominated the 1995 WCC and Rickson dominated Vale Tudo Japan too in the exact same fashion as Royce, despite the Gracie not being involved with the creation of said events.
There was too much too lose and too little necessity for them to try to fix fights in that period.
-Also you are not letting your matches go on for more than 5 minutes, which is something Royce did several times, letting alone 15 minutes if the fight is fixed since the longer a fight goes the more likely is to notice if it's fake.
Then we have how the fights themselves played out in detail, they looked exactly like all the thousand and thousand grapplers vs strikers fight we have seen in all kind of situations (and some of us have also been involved too), all the beavhiours, movements, speed, intensity level etc.... looked natural and made sense, there was nothing fishy or suspect or "innatural looking" about them, and we all know how difficult it's too make a worked/staged fight believable while at the same time clearly going at full effort and intensity.
Not to mention the potentiallly fight ending damage that the "designated winner" received in a lot of them that I mentioned before (eg Royce being punched in the face full force by Kimo and Keith Hackey).
Honestly it's not hard to tell an undoubtedly real fight from one where it's possible (altough not certain) that it's fake.
Silly me for thinking that putting a question mark at the end of the sentence would be enough.
The only confirmed one in UFC history lasted 10 seconds with no damage involved, which is actually the most logical way to fix a fight, it's too short to notice it's fake and the competitors are not risking their health with unneccesary brain damage.
The other confirmed ones were japanese fights were it was painfully obvious they were fixed, which further reinforce my point about it usually not being very hard to tell.
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