On December 15 Jake Paul flattened Andre August with a heavily telegraphed uppercut inside a small venue in Orlando, FL.
There were rumblings online that this fight looked fixed and that Paul’s hand-picked opponent took a dive. However, those claims look rather silly when you consider the skill gap between August (a journeyman, out of practice boxer who has only ever fought cans worse than him) and Paul who has been pretty committed to his sport in the last two years and has gotten in some reps against genuine athletes.
However, according to The Sports Daily‘s Garett Kerman, U.S. Integrity are investigating a separate fight on the Paul vs. August card.
Kerman claims there was suspicious betting activity on the Yoenis Tellez vs. Livan Navarro bout, which went down before the co-main event of Shadasia Green vs. Francon Crews-Dezurn.
Kerman states that there was an “influx of six-figure wagers” on that fight going over five and a half rounds, despite Tellez never fighting past the fourth round in his undefeated career.
At the December 15 event, Tellez dropped Navarro in the third, but wasn’t able to finish the fight afterwards, going into the 10th before winning via TKO.
Kerman claimed “its been believed that one of the bettors (on the over 5.5 rounds prop bet) was a part of the corner team” for either Tellez or Navarro.
U.S. Integrity was reportedly notified about the fight and is now conducting an investigation.
Jake Paul, nor anyone associated with him, is suspected of any wrongdoing in this matter.