“Dude, I\u2019m glad it happened because I usually do bet on fights. I\u2019m glad it happened right before that [Sean] O\u2019Malley – [Petr] Yan fight because I would have lost a bunch of money. I would have bet [Mateusz] Gamrot to beat [Beneil] Dariush, I would have bet Petr to beat O\u2019Malley. I would\u2019ve lost a bunch of money, so they saved me some money.”<\/em><\/p>\nPoirier went on to admit that he didn’t know the details of the situation. He also admitted that he had bet on himself in the past. He believes the main problem is if fighters were to bet against themselves.<\/p>\n
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“But still, it\u2019s insider trading. If I\u2019m training with these guys, and they have an injury going into a fight or whatever, I\u2019m seeing it from a different angle than the public and the matchmakers are seeing it. So, I can see it\u2019s just not a good look in general, and I have no problem being removed from the betting side of mixed martial arts.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former interim UFC Lightweight Champion Dustin Poirier has weighed in on the fighter betting situation. Former UFC fighter-turned-coach, James Krause, became embroiled in controversy after his fighter, Darrick Minner, suffered a first-round TKO loss to Shayilan Nuerdanbieke at UFC Vegas 64. Minner was a slight underdog going into the fight but suddenly Nuerdanbieke became a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54476,"featured_media":361364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10570,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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