A former mainstay at the gym said all the recent drama at Glory MMA and Fitness turned the team into the stuff of a reality show.
Grant Dawson hasn’t lost a fight since 2016, long before he made his way to the UFC in 2019. At the time, he was at Glory MMA, headed up by James Krause near Kansas City, Mo. He since has moved to American Top Team in South Florida, but says he had nothing to do with the craziness at Glory.
The gym and founder James Krause have been embroiled in one of MMA’s biggest controversies caused by suspicious betting activity surrounding a fight between Shayilan Nuerdanbieke and Darrick Minner. Several government agencies, including the FBI, are investigating the UFC over concerns of fight fixing. At the center of it all is former fighter and coach Krause, who cornered Minner during the first-round TKO loss to Nuerdanbieke that set everything in motion.
