Was UFC Vegas 110 Fixed? 16 Questions That Demand Answers

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What Did Isaac Dulgarian Tell You at 1 PM?

According to Dana White’s own statement to TMZ Sports, IC360 contacted the UFC around 1 PM on fight day about unusual betting activity on the Dulgarian fight. White said they called Dulgarian and his lawyer and asked specific questions: Are you injured? Do you owe anybody money? Has anybody approached you?

White told us you asked the questions.

He didn’t tell us what Dulgarian answered.

So here’s what I need to know: What did Dulgarian say? Did he admit to an injury? Did he say he owed money? Did he confess that someone had approached him? Or did he deny everything?

Because his answer determines everything.

If Dulgarian admitted something was wrong – if he said yes to any of those questions – then you knowingly let a compromised fighter walk into the cage. You had hours to pull the fight. You chose not to.

If Dulgarian denied everything – if he said he was healthy, debt-free, and nobody had approached him – then why did you cut him from the roster the next day without explanation?

Either you let a compromised fight happen, or you destroyed a fighter’s career based on suspicious betting patterns alone.

Which is it?

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Why Did the UFC Let the Fight Happen?

You knew something was wrong hours before the fight started. IC360 was waving red flags. You called Dulgarian to ask if the fight was compromised. You had the power and the time to pull it.

Why didn’t you?

Boxing died because promoters let suspicious fights happen when they should have stopped them. The money was too good. The show had to go on. Protect the business, not the sport.

Is that what happened here? Was it too late to refund tickets? Too expensive to cancel? Too embarrassing to admit you had a problem?

Because here’s what the timeline tells me: You knew something was wrong. You let it happen anyway. And when it blew up exactly the way you were warned it would, you cut the fighter and pretended you were the victim.

That’s not integrity. That’s damage control.

And here’s the follow-up question that makes this worse: Reports suggest the FBI notified the UFC about betting irregularities before the fight started. If true, why let it proceed? If false, the UFC needs to clarify what actually happened at 1 PM on fight day and who knew what.

3

What Does Yadier del Valle Know?

Yadier del Valle won this fight. He submitted Isaac Dulgarian in the first round at UFC Vegas 110, scoring the biggest win of his career.

Now that win is permanently tainted. Sportsbooks refunded bets. The UFC cut his opponent. Media coverage focuses on fixing allegations, not del Valle’s performance. His moment is gone.

If del Valle fought clean – if he had no knowledge of any fixing attempt – then he’s a victim here. Someone tried to rig his fight, and now his legitimate victory will always carry suspicion.

So what does Yadier del Valle know?

Has he been questioned by the UFC? By IC360? By the FBI?

Does he stand by his win? Or does he have doubts now too?

Did anything seem off to him during fight week? During the fight itself?

Because if del Valle is innocent, the UFC owes him answers and protection. His career shouldn’t be collateral damage in a betting scandal he had nothing to do with.

And if del Valle isn’t innocent – if he had knowledge – then the UFC has a much bigger problem than one cut fighter.

Either way, del Valle’s silence is conspicuous. And the UFC’s silence about del Valle is even more conspicuous.

Why isn’t anyone asking what he knows?

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Why Did Sportsbooks Refund the Bets?

Multiple major sportsbooks – including Caesars, William Hill, and DraftKings – refunded wagers on the Dulgarian fight. Some pulled the fight entirely before it happened. Others refunded after.

Sportsbooks don’t do this lightly. They eat losses all the time. Bad beats. Unexpected upsets. Controversial decisions. They take the money and move on because that’s the business.

They refund when they believe the game was rigged.

Because keeping money from a fixed fight opens them to fraud lawsuits. It damages their reputation. It invites regulatory scrutiny. The safest move – the only move – is to refund and make it go away.

So here are my questions:

What did the sportsbooks know that made them refund?

What evidence did they see that convinced them the fight was compromised?

Which books refunded and which didn’t? What did the ones who refunded know that the others didn’t?

Have any bettors filed lawsuits against the UFC or sportsbooks for fraud?

And here’s the big one: If major licensed sportsbooks believe the fight was fixed enough to refund money, why isn’t that admission triggering more aggressive investigations?

That should be treated as evidence. Instead, it’s being treated as damage control that everyone’s supposed to ignore.

Why?

5

How Are These Approaches Happening?

Multiple UFC fighters have claimed they’ve been approached to throw fights. Vince Morales said he was offered seventy thousand dollars. Vanessa Demopoulos said she was approached and refused. Lando Vannata claimed seven separate approaches.

We keep saying fighters are being “approached.” But nobody’s explaining the mechanics.

How is this happening?

Are these approaches coming through social media DMs? In-person at gyms? Through intermediaries? Anonymous encrypted messages? Phone calls from unknown numbers?

And if it’s happening to multiple fighters, is there a pattern in WHO gets approached?

Are they targeting fighters with specific financial vulnerabilities? Fighters on losing streaks facing contract cuts? Fighters at specific gyms or with specific management companies? Fighters who train in certain regions?

Because if there’s a pattern, that tells us this is organized. It’s not random opportunists throwing out offers and hoping someone bites. It’s targeted recruitment based on profiling.

Who’s doing the profiling? And who’s doing the approaching?

This matters because it determines the scale of the problem. Random approaches are one thing. A systematic network identifying vulnerable fighters and making calculated offers is something else entirely.

Which one is this?

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What About the Other Two Fighters?

Multiple sources reported that two additional fighters on the UFC Vegas 110 card were flagged for suspicious betting activity. Not just Dulgarian. Two others on the same night.

Who are they?

What were their fights?

What happened to them?

Did you cut them too? Are they under investigation? Did their fights get pulled? Did sportsbooks refund those bets?

Or did those fights happen, and we’re all just pretending everything was fine because the betting patterns weren’t quite suspicious enough to make headlines?

Because if two other fighters on the same card were flagged, that’s not an isolated incident. That’s a systemic problem.

And if the UFC knows who they are and hasn’t said anything, that’s a cover-up.

So which is it? Who are the other two fighters, and what’s being done about them?

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Why Did the Fighters Delete Their Posts?

Vince Morales posted that he’d been offered seventy thousand dollars to throw a fight. Then he deleted it and said he was joking.

Vanessa Demopoulos posted that she’d been approached and refused. Then she deleted it and said she was joking.

Lando Vannata posted that he’d been approached seven times. Then he deleted it and said he was joking.

Three fighters. Three posts. Three deletions. Three identical “I was joking” explanations.

Were they joking? Or were they told to delete the posts?

Because here’s what we know: The UFC has immense power over fighters. Contracts. Sponsorships. Future bookings. Media access. A fighter who embarrasses the UFC can find themselves cut, buried on prelims, or facing an opponent they have no business fighting.

So when three fighters post about being approached to fix fights, and all three delete those posts within hours and claim they were joking, I don’t believe in coincidences.

Did the UFC tell them to delete the posts? Did their managers? Did their lawyers?

And if they really were joking, why joke about that? Why make up a story about being offered money to throw fights during the exact same week that a major betting scandal is blowing up?

Either they were telling the truth and got silenced, or they were lying for attention at the worst possible time.

Which is it?

8

What Is IC360 Actually Doing?

IC360 is the UFC’s integrity monitoring partner. They’re supposed to detect suspicious betting activity and alert the UFC when something looks wrong.

They did their job on November 1. They flagged the Dulgarian fight. They called the UFC at 1 PM.

And then what?

The fight happened anyway. Dulgarian lost exactly the way the betting patterns predicted. Sportsbooks refunded bets. The UFC cut Dulgarian.

So what’s the point of having an integrity monitoring system if you ignore the warnings?

Here are my questions about IC360:

How many fights have they flagged in the past year? How many of those flags resulted in pulled fights? How many resulted in investigations? How many resulted in punishments?

What’s their threshold for flagging a fight? What level of betting irregularity triggers an alert?

Do they have access to all sportsbooks globally, or just certain licensed operators? Because if they’re only monitoring regulated U.S. books, they’re missing the offshore action where the real money moves.

And here’s the big one: Is IC360 independent, or do they report directly to the UFC? Because if they report to the UFC, they’re not an integrity monitor. They’re a PR shield.

The UFC can say, “We have integrity monitoring,” while still making the final call on whether to act on the warnings.

That’s not oversight. That’s optics.

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Why Isn’t There Independent Oversight?

In boxing, athletic commissions regulate fights. They can pull a fight. They can suspend a fighter. They can launch investigations. They answer to state governments, not promoters.

In the UFC, the UFC is the promoter, the league, and the de facto regulator. They decide who fights. They decide who gets cut. They decide what gets investigated.

There’s no independent body with the power to force the UFC to answer questions.

IC360 reports to the UFC. Athletic commissions only regulate fights in their jurisdictions, and UFC Apex events in Las Vegas operate under Nevada rules, but the UFC still controls the narrative.

So when something like this happens, who investigates?

The FBI can investigate criminal activity. But they move slowly, and they only act when there’s evidence of a crime.

Athletic commissions can investigate, but only if the UFC cooperates. And the UFC has no legal obligation to share information with them.

The media can ask questions, but the UFC doesn’t have to answer.

So we’re left with a system where the most powerful MMA organization on earth polices itself, and nobody has the authority to force transparency.

How is that acceptable?

Why isn’t there an independent MMA integrity commission with subpoena power, investigative authority, and the ability to punish organizations that let compromised fights happen?

Because right now, the UFC can do whatever it wants, and the only consequence is bad press.

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What Happens to the Bettors Who Didn’t Get Refunds?

Some sportsbooks refunded bets on the Dulgarian fight. Others didn’t.

So if you bet on Dulgarian at Caesars, you got your money back. If you bet on Dulgarian at a book that didn’t refund, you lost.

Same fight. Same suspicious activity. Different outcomes depending on which app you used.

That’s not fair. And it raises serious legal questions.

If a fight is compromised, every bettor who lost money on it has been defrauded. It doesn’t matter which sportsbook they used.

So what happens to the bettors who didn’t get refunds?

Can they sue the UFC for allowing a fixed fight to proceed? Can they sue the sportsbook for keeping money from a compromised event? Can they sue IC360 for failing to prevent it?

And here’s the bigger question: If sportsbooks are refunding bets, doesn’t that create a legal admission that the fight was compromised?

Because if it does, that’s evidence. And if it’s evidence, why isn’t it being used in investigations?

Or are sportsbooks refunding bets specifically to avoid creating that evidence? Is this a calculated move to make the problem go away without admitting fault?

Either way, the bettors who didn’t get refunds are victims. And nobody’s talking about them.

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How Much Money Actually Moved?

We know the betting lines collapsed. We know money poured in on del Valle. We know sportsbooks pulled the fight or refunded bets.

But how much money are we actually talking about?

Was this a few thousand dollars from casual bettors? Or was this hundreds of thousands – maybe millions – moving in coordinated waves across multiple sportsbooks?

Because the scale of the money determines the scale of the crime.

If someone bet five thousand dollars on del Valle because they had inside information, that’s bad. If someone coordinated a multi-sportsbook operation to move half a million dollars, that’s organized crime.

So here’s what I need to know:

How much money was bet on del Valle in the final hours before the fight?

How much of that money came from known sharp bettors versus recreational accounts?

Were there large bets placed from offshore books that U.S. regulators can’t track?

Did the same accounts that bet heavily on del Valle also bet on other suspicious fights?

Because if this was a one-time opportunistic bet, that’s one thing. If this was part of a pattern – if the same people who bet on del Valle also bet on other flagged fights – then we’re looking at a network.

And if it’s a network, someone needs to be tracking the money.

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What Did Dana White Mean by “Three-Year Investigation”?

In his November 4 statement, Dana White said that fighters who don’t report approaches could face “three-year investigations.”

Three years.

That’s not a normal investigation timeline. That’s a threat.

What did he mean by that?

Is there an actual three-year investigative process that fighters get subjected to? Or was he just throwing out a scary number to intimidate people into silence?

Because here’s what that statement tells me: Instead of addressing the systemic problem, Dana White is threatening the people trying to expose it.

Vince Morales said he was offered seventy thousand dollars. Dana White’s response wasn’t, “We’re investigating who made that offer.” It was, “Why didn’t you report it sooner?”

That’s not leadership. That’s deflection.

And the “three-year investigation” line makes it worse. Because now fighters know: If you speak up, you’ll be under investigation for three years. Your career will be in limbo. You’ll be questioned. You’ll be scrutinized. You’ll be treated like a suspect instead of a victim.

So fighters stay silent. And the problem gets worse.

Is that the goal?

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Why Did This Happen at UFC Apex?

UFC Vegas 110 took place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. No crowd. No gate revenue. Just cameras and fighters.

Apex cards are lower-profile events. Smaller names. Less media coverage. Less scrutiny.

Is that why this happened there?

Because if you’re going to try to fix a fight, you don’t do it at a pay-per-view event with millions of viewers and massive media attention. You do it at a Fight Night card that most people won’t even remember.

So here’s my question: Are Apex cards more vulnerable to fixing attempts because they’re lower-profile?

Do fighters on Apex cards get paid less, making them more susceptible to financial offers?

Is there less oversight at Apex events because they’re not considered as important?

And if Apex cards are more vulnerable, what’s being done to protect them?

Because if the answer is “nothing,” then we’re going to see this happen again.

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What’s the UFC’s Plan to Fix This?

Dana White gave a statement. He blamed fighters for not reporting approaches. He threatened investigations. He cut Dulgarian.

But he didn’t announce any new policies. He didn’t outline any systemic changes. He didn’t explain what the UFC is doing differently to prevent this from happening again.

So what’s the plan?

Are you creating a confidential hotline where fighters can report approaches without fear of retaliation?

Are you increasing fighter pay so seventy thousand dollars isn’t life-changing money?

Are you working with sportsbooks to share data and identify patterns earlier?

Are you pulling fights immediately when IC360 raises red flags, instead of letting them proceed?

Are you cooperating with law enforcement to track down the people making these offers?

Or are you just hoping this blows over so you can go back to business as usual?

Because right now, it looks like the UFC’s plan is to cut anyone who gets caught, threaten anyone who speaks up, and pretend the problem doesn’t exist.

That’s not a plan. That’s a cover-up.

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Is This Just the Beginning?

Here’s what we know for sure:

Multiple fighters have been approached to throw fights. At least one fight at UFC Vegas 110 had suspicious betting activity. Possibly three fights on the same card were flagged. Sportsbooks are refunding bets because they believe fights were compromised. Fighters are deleting posts and claiming they were joking. The UFC is cutting fighters without explanation and threatening investigations instead of addressing the systemic problem.

This isn’t an isolated incident. This is a pattern.

And patterns don’t appear overnight. They build over time.

So how long has this been happening?

How many other fights had suspicious betting activity that didn’t get flagged? How many fighters took the money and threw fights without getting caught? How many times did IC360 raise concerns that the UFC ignored?

Because if this has been happening for months – or years – and we’re only finding out about it now, then the UFC has been sitting on a ticking time bomb.

And if they’ve been sitting on it, that means they knew.

Which brings me back to the question I started with: What did the UFC know, and when did they know it?

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At What Point Does Silence Become Complicity?

The UFC has the power to answer every question I’ve asked. They have the data. They have the records. They have the investigative resources. They have the authority.

They’re choosing not to use it.

Every day that passes without answers makes this worse. Every fighter who stays silent because they’re afraid of a three-year investigation makes this worse. Every sportsbook that refunds bets without explaining why makes this worse. Every media outlet that moves on to the next story without demanding accountability makes this worse.

And every day the UFC refuses to address this transparently, they’re telling us something.

They’re telling us that protecting the business is more important than protecting the sport.

They’re telling us that cutting one fighter and threatening a few others is enough to make this go away.

They’re telling us that they’d rather manage the scandal than solve the problem.

Boxing died because the people in power chose silence over accountability. They let the corruption spread until nobody trusted the sport anymore. They prioritized short-term profits over long-term credibility.

And by the time they tried to fix it, it was too late. The fans were gone. The legitimacy was gone. The sport became a punchline.

MMA is standing at the same crossroads.

The UFC can choose transparency. They can pull fights when red flags appear. They can protect fighters who report approaches. They can work with regulators to build independent oversight. They can prove that the sport is bigger than the business.

Or they can choose what boxing chose.

Stay silent. Cut fighters who get caught. Attack anyone who asks questions. Let the rot spread until nobody believes the fights are real anymore.

At some point, silence stops being a PR strategy and starts being complicity.

We’re past that point.