{"id":354013,"date":"2025-12-17T14:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/354013\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:01:19","slug":"nsac-extends-suspension-of-isaac-dulgarian-after-ufc-betting-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/354013\/","title":{"rendered":"NSAC extends suspension of Isaac Dulgarian after UFC betting scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Isaac Dulgarian maintains his innocence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Unfortunately for the \u201cMidWest Choppa,\u201d Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) remains unconvinced. That\u2019s why it voted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/402610\/cut-ufc-fighter-isaac-dulgarian-officially-suspended-after-fight-fixing-allegations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extend Dulgarian\u2019s suspension<\/a> on Tuesday, affording regulators more time to investigate \u201cconduct which is deemed by the commission to reflect a discredit to unarmed combat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAs you know, it has been alleged in correspondence with the state of Nevada Athletic Commission that there are grounds deemed by the commission supporting the temporary suspension of our client, Isaac Dulgarian,\u201d attorney James Hobbs said in a written statement to NSAC (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/12\/16\/ufc-betting-scandal-isaac-dulgarian-nevada-athletic-commission-lawyer-statement\/87785155007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cWhile Mr. Dulgarian denies any claims of conduct reflecting discredit in the field of unarmed combat, he consents to another extension of the temporary suspension.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">NSAC will revisit the case when it reconvenes on Jan. 20 in Las Vegas. Until then, Dulgarian is barred from competing and will likely be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/400973\/famed-mma-gym-denies-fbi-raid-after-betting-scandal-nothing-to-hide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">questioned by the FBI<\/a> at some point during the investigation. Del Valle, 29, has not competed since UFC Vegas 110 and remains unbooked at the time of this writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaac Dulgarian maintains his innocence. Unfortunately for the \u201cMidWest Choppa,\u201d Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) remains unconvinced. That\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,45879,19458],"class_list":["post-354013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}