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Active UFC trainer offering betting tips is a bad look

Recently retired UFC fighter — and active owner and head instructor of Glory MMA, James Krause — is offering paid access to his betting tips. As his site says, “All betting plays come from me, James Krause, UFC coach & MMA Bettor.”

I have issues with this and the fact that the UFC — via its UFC Fight Pass streaming service — is platforming Krause’s podcast.

If Krause was an NFL coach, player or an employee of the league, it would forbid him from betting on NFL games in any form. As the NFL’s gambling policy states:

NFL Personnel are restricted or prohibited from engaging in the following gambling-related activities, regardless of whether such activities are legal:

1.