Darrick Minner has opened up on the alleged fastened combat claims.
Minner has been the middle of the UFC betting scandal since his combat towards Shayilan Nuerdanbieke. Within the lead-up to the combat, some uncommon cash got here in on Nuerdanbieke and he rapidly completed Minner, because it appeared Minner was injured.
Since then, Minner has been suspended by the Athletic Fee whereas his head coach James Krause has been banned from cornering or teaching fighters. Nevertheless, Minner says Krause was teaching him to victory and says he received damage throughout the combat.
“When it got here to the combat, I do know that Krause was guiding me to victory,” Darrick Minner mentioned on the LytesOut MMA Historical past Podcast (by way of MMANews). “There was nothing modified from the opposite fights. He wasn’t appearing any totally different. We had been moving into there to win. I do know that I confirmed up on combat day to win, took a loss, fully (tore) my ACL, my PCL in the midst of the combat on a foremost card slot in entrance of tens of millions of individuals. I don’t like shedding, for one, particularly like that. And then you definitely get all this sh*t coming alongside. It was undoubtedly not time.”
Darrick Minner went on to say he hasn’t talked to the FBI or the U.S. Integrity, as he simply desires to be cleared to combat as he appears like he did nothing fallacious.
“I imply, closed mouths don’t get fed. They’ll’t maintain (me) hostage. That is my livelihood. I gotta eat,” Minner mentioned. “If the investigation remains to be happening, a motherf*cker’s gotta eat. You’ll be able to examine all you need, you ain’t gonna discover sh*t on me… It’s a kind of issues. Get on with it.
“My knee is lastly able to go,” Darrick Minner added. “But it surely was similar to, ‘Pending investigation, pending investigation.’ It’s like, what the hell does this imply? Why are you simply leaving folks out right here. … (I haven’t been contacted by authorities businesses). I talked to the fee, that was it.”
Minner has been launched from the UFC because of the investigation however will not be cleared to combat by the fee.