MMA fighters sticking with Krause face ban

Fighters who stay progressive with MMA manager James Krause volition beryllium temporarily banned from participating successful UFC events, pending respective investigations into suspicious betting activity, the UFC announced Friday.

The Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) informed Krause connected Nov. 18 that his country licence was suspended and would stay truthful arsenic the committee investigates the happenings of a Nov. 5 combat betwixt Darrick Minner and Shayilan Nuerdanbieke that triggered aggregate gambling investigations, per the UFC.

Krause coached Minner successful the fight. Minner has been released by the UFC, the promotion said Friday.

"UFC has since advised Krause and the respective managers moving with impacted fighters, that effectual immediately, fighters who take to proceed to beryllium coached by Krause oregon who proceed to bid successful his gym, volition not beryllium permitted to enactment successful UFC events pending the result of the aforementioned authorities investigations," the UFC connection read. "Further, UFC has released Darrick Minner from the organization."

UFC main concern serviceman Hunter Campbell sent a memo to UFC fighters and their teams Friday with akin messaging. The promotion said it has been cooperating "with aggregate ongoing authorities investigations" into the Minner vs. Neurdanbieke fight.

"Along with the information and wellness of its fighters, UFC believes determination is nary much important constituent of nonrecreational mixed martial arts than the integrity of the sport," the UFC connection read.

The connection went connected to notation a memo UFC sent retired successful October, telling fighters that they, their coaches and others progressive with their teams were nary longer permitted to stake connected UFC fights, per the UFC codification of conduct. Before that memo, the UFC had nary betting rules.

"This was an hold of UFC's pre-existing (and since updated) combatant Code of Conduct," the connection continued, "as good arsenic a designation of assorted state, federal, and planetary laws and regulations expressly prohibiting behaviour that threatens the integrity of the athletics including, but not constricted to, insider betting based connected non-public information, fight-fixing, and different specified misconduct. UFC volition proceed to instrumentality each indispensable and due steps to guarantee compliance with and enforcement of its policies and those of the jurisdictions successful which it operates."

Multiple sportsbooks reported receiving antithetic betting involvement connected Neurdanbieke to triumph by knockout successful the archetypal circular and for the combat to past less than 2.5 rounds. The likelihood connected the combat moved dramatically successful the hours starring up to the featherweight bout successful Las Vegas, with Neurdanbieke moving from a -220 favourite to a -420 favorite.

Just 30 seconds into the fight, Minner threw a near footwear to Nuerdanbieke's assemblage and instantly grimaced and reached for his near leg. Nuerdanbieke closed successful and Minner went for different near assemblage footwear earlier Nuerdanbieke dropped Minner with a genu to the caput and finished connected the crushed with elbows. The TKO stoppage came astatine 1:07 of the archetypal round.

The antithetic betting enactment prompted an probe by U.S. Integrity, a Las Vegas steadfast that works with sportsbooks and gaming regulators to show the betting market. The UFC besides said it was investigating the combat with its spouse Don Best Sports. The investigations are ongoing.

In addition, the Nevada State Athletic Association is readying to instrumentality disciplinary enactment against Minner for "non-disclosure connected his pre-fight aesculapian form" during a Dec. 14 meeting, according to enforcement manager of the NSAC Jeff Mullen.

Krause, 36, has not fought since 2020 and officially announced his status successful an interrogation with The MMA Hour successful August. Krause has coached high-level MMA fighters astatine his Glory MMA and Fitness gym successful Lee's Summit, Missouri, for years. His astir notable existent combatant is UFC interim flyweight champion Brandon Moreno, who is scheduled for a rubric unification combat with Deiveson Figueiredo astatine UFC 238 connected Jan. 21, successful Brazil. Moreno has been grooming with Krause since earlier this year.

On his Instagram relationship Friday night, Moreno posted a photo of him hugging Krause, on with the caption, "Waiting for justice."

On Nov. 19, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement notified the state's licensed sportsbook that they were nary longer allowed to connection betting connected immoderate combat Krause was progressive with, "including arsenic a coach, trainer, promotor oregon fighter."

Krause has been unfastened astir his sports betting, moving a fashionable Discord transmission and podcast connected YouTube known arsenic the 1% Club. He besides formerly contributed to a betting amusement for ESPN connected YouTube. Krause's Discord and YouTube channels were taken down Nov. 24.

In the interrogation with "The MMA Hour," Krause said, "I marque much gambling connected MMA than I bash thing else," and added that helium bets connected "every azygous card, conscionable astir each fight."

A petition for remark from Krause was not returned immediately

On Thursday, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) ordered registered entities to cease offering and accepting wagering connected the UFC "due to non-compliance with AGCO's betting integrity requirements." The AGCO is acrophobic that the UFC's gambling argumentation lone prohibits athletes from betting connected fights and doesn't spell acold capable to prohibit each individuals with privy to wrong information.

"We person indicated to operators that, erstwhile the indispensable remedial steps person been taken, they whitethorn supply accusation demonstrating that UFC betting products conscionable the registrar standards," said Katherine Cunningham, a regulatory compliance manager of net gaming. "We're committed to moving intimately with operators and the UFC to guarantee that gambling is provided safely and responsibly successful Ontario."

On Friday, the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis authorities bureau instructed the provinces operators to cease offering betting connected UFC.

Krause has cornered aggregate fighters successful UFC rubric fights. As a fighter, helium had a 28-8 record, was a two-time contestant connected "The Ultimate Fighter" world amusement and had a six-fight UFC winning streak betwixt 2015 and 2019. He made his nonrecreational MMA debut successful 2007, aft a decorated amateur career.