The biggest scandal in mixed martial arts right now centers around allegations surrounding suspicious sports betting in relation to James Krause. Krause has been suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission, and the UFC has blacklisted Krause and all fighters associated with him, including Darrick Minner, whose fight at UFC Vegas 64 seems to have sparked the entire dumpster fire. Matt Brown, who worked with Krause on The Ultimate Fighter, recently weighed in on the debacle.
“I always thought he was a good dude. Very, very smart with coaching, very smart with business stuff. I actually picked up some tips from him for business stuff. He’s a very intelligent guy.
Matt Brown on UFC Betting Scandal: “James Krause is F***ed!”
Sounds like he went to the well one too many times on this one though, right? He reached a little too far, over stepped his boundaries and now he’s looking like Pete Rose out here. Long story short, James Krause is f*****. Everything he’s worked for is going down the drain from this. I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Brown continued, pointing out that the UFC used to put on “summits” to warn fighters of the dangers of sports betting, but no longer.
“We did a UFC summit back in I would say 2010, 2011, they used to have these summits every year and they’d bring all the fighters out and put us in a room and give us speeches from all these people.
They had a FBI guy come in once and he was talking about sports betting and how we shouldn’t be doing it and how we’d get in trouble if it happens.
Then funny enough, that just kind of fell off and then all of a sudden everyone’s promoting betting, all these betting sites are out there, everyone’s talking about it. I hear about all these coaches betting on everything. I always kept that in the back of my mind like somebody’s going to get f***** here. Too bad it was James Krause, I really like that guy.”
Brown also pointed out that James Krause is far from the only MMA coach to get involved in sports betting. “I can tell you factually there are coaches constantly betting on fights. Guys that have inside info.
This happens in all the different sports. Why are they just singling out UFC? Obviously, we know what just happened.” What do you think will happen to James Krause? Let us know in the comments.
