Originally Posted by Adult Lounge - Brad

Most of the Chute Boxe people were on steroids in Japan. That and the fact that they were able to use knees to the head on the ground and stomps made that team almost unstoppable. In the US...no stomps, they have to retrain their ground game = they are not as dominant. Also, there is a reason most of the premier fighters left that camp. Vale Tudo is not as useful in the US where they follow the unified MMA Rules.

Also, even Bas talks about how it is basically impossible to fix a fight. You can't control if you are going to be KO'd by a high kick or not.

In Japan they had fixes like Rampage/Wandi where the ref stood them up while Rampage was busy on the ground is one example. And even Rampage said that he had been asked to take a dive. That was Japan, the US is a little different. I'm sure there are some orgs where fights are fixed, but there is just too much sponsorship money on the table these days for someone like Rampage to throw a fight in the US. I do believe that most of the fighters respect the sport and are trying to legitimize it, not knock it back 20 years.