Joe Rogan has admitted that he “used to bet” on the UFC especially early on with bad betting lines. He boasts a success rate of 84% This is how Joe Rogan beat the bookies.
On the JRE – Episode 1868 Joe Rogan talks with Sam Morril. Throughout the conversion Joe mentions how he used to gamble on UFC events (whilst he was working for them)
Rogan did not specify when he stopped or if he has stopped at all doing this. Stating “This is probably not legal” A loophole (if required) is that Joe stated he would give his business partner the money to bet. Joe beat the book makers at UFC betting.
Whats your thoughts? Is this a form of insider trading?
Dana White Says Fight Fixing a ‘Huge Concern’
amid James Krause Investigation. It seems that match fixing has been going on for some time without the knowledge of top UFC bosses. Professional gambling is a messy entity and bookmakers and betting sites may pull back from the UFC which could have a severe impact to revenue and interest.
Transcript here –
“I used to be on UFC really even when I was commentating I bet on it early on and I’m like this is probably not legal.
Some lines that were so bad that I had a gamble on them. So one of my business partner for onit Aubry he would come to a lot of the fights
and I would give him he would gamble.
“When I stopped gambling I would just say we were at like 84% success rate
It was so crazy because I was talking there was these guys that were coming from Japan and the matchmakers might have known about them
but the bookmakers didn’t wow so they they had lines like totally off like they had guys were like even money that
were a [bleep] steal and so there was there was certain fights I would go I don’t know about that one I wanted but
that one but be the [bleep] house on the Brazilian guy wow”
“we would do this and we it was a crazy success rate to understand fighting and to understand the lines like you got to watch this guy’s whole [ bleep] career
you got to watch 10 15 fights you got to watch him fight against wrestlers fight against Strikers what happens when he
gets tired what happens if he gets into the third round you know does he quit if he starts getting dumped somebody some
guys are very good as the hammer but not so good as the nail”
“some guys don’t bounce back they’re just Front Runners and if they front run they can steam or roll over everybody but as soon as the fight gets rough
their confidence shatters and they fall off and so you got to know like what what what kind of scenarios this guy’s been in
and so it takes a like a lot of information and you have that information for it to be something that really affects you
it’s got to be a lot yeah you know so once you start making like 5-10 Grand a weekend and then you put a grand on a game
you’re like oh and then you’re like well that was exciting a little bit what about 2500″