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Fighter vs. Writer: Matt Brown REACTS to Fight Fixing Allegations Plus UFC 322 Preview, Picks and Predictions

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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On the latest episode of The Fighter vs. The Writer, UFC legend Matt Brown and Damon Martin react to the fight-fixing allegations that happened after UFC Vegas 110 with the FBI now investigating a situation involving Isaac Dulgarian. We’ll also look ahead at UFC 322 and the main event between Jack Della Maddalena and Islam Makhachev, the key to victory for both of them and where Makhachev would rank among the all-time greats if he’s able to become a two-division champion. All this and more on the latest episode of The Fighter vs. The Writer Subscribe to MMA Fighting Check out our full video catalog Like MMA Fighting on Facebook Follow on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're listening to the fighter versus the writer. I am Damon Martin. He is UFC legend Matt Brown, and we have finally arrived, Matt. It is UFC 32 week. It feels like we had to go through an awful lot of not great events to get here. But here we are. Finally arrive at USC 32, Islam Ocatchev against Jack Della Madalana, Valentina Shepchenko, against Jangway Lee Sean Brady, Michael Morales, Benile Darius, Benoit Saint-Dine. It's a good card, man. It's a good pay-per-view, so we're back on track with a good show. Yeah, excited too, man. Like, what great matchups is from top to bottom here. Unbelievable. Before we get to, before we get to 322, that's going be the bulk of of our show, just so everyone knows. But I did want to bring this up because, like, just in terms of timing, we did our show last week, record on Sunday. And then Monday, we started seeing a lot of the allegations and stuff coming out of the previous UFC show with a kid named Isaac Dalgarian. Odds on his fight shifted dramatically. He ended up losing in the first

1:45.4

round after he was like an overwhelming like three to one favorite, ends up losing in the first

1:49.0

round. Now we know there's actually an FBI investigation into this whole thing. Allegations, by

1:54.1

the way, no one's guilty, no one's gone to prison or anything crazy like that. So I want to make

1:57.0

sure allegations were not condemning anyone just yet, although Dana White did say it doesn't look good, quote unquote, for him. FBI's involved, and obviously this is coming on the hills of what happened a couple years ago with the whole James Krause thing with Derek Minner and everything. And I know Dana has come out and said, like, you know, this is not a widespread problem. You know, this is a couple instances. It's obviously a big deal, but we're not, you know, this is not something we deal with on a daily basis.

2:20.3

And also, like, this is going on right now. I'm sure maybe you just seem like in the periphery, Matt, like the NBA's got a big scandal going on right now with people getting arrested left and right for these, like, you know, betting, gambling, fight, fix, or game fixing scandals and stuff like this. So this is nothing just specific to the UFC,

2:35.7

but I know we talked about it with the James Krause thing. betting, gambling, fight, fix, or a game fixing scandals and stuff like this. So this is nothing just specific to the UFC.

2:53.5

But I know we talked about it with the James Krause thing. I'm curious, Matt, because you're a fighter. You've been around. Because Dana said, like, all these people are coming out and saying, I've been approached. He's like, if you've been approached, you should have told us. So you should have come to tell somebody about that. Matt, in your career, like, we've heard stories for our buddy, Mike Coleman.

2:54.3

He fought in pride.

2:53.5

Like, we've heard stories for our buddy, Mike Coleman.

2:54.3

He fought in pride.

2:56.1

Like, we know some stories in that time period.

3:01.2

But, like, this isn't necessarily new, but it is really bad when it happens.

3:04.9

Yeah, which is crazy to me. Like, because, I mean, I was in the UFC for 16 years.

3:08.6

I was never approached by anybody.

3:10.1

I never heard a single thing about it.

3:12.3

The funny, kind of funny thing is like some of the guys that are many guys that I've hung

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