MMA fans love to play amateur detective. They scour the internet, latching onto fight footage, interviews and performance data in the hope of exposing certain fighters as the frauds that they are. After every major pay-per- view, many of these detectives will be able to claim their prize- validating their credentials as fans who are “ahead of the curve”- as a number of high-profile fighters are “fraud-checked”.
Being fraudulent requires a level of deception on the part of the fighter that contradicts the foundational claim of these detectives. More often than not, the individual deficiencies that are so publicly exploited are there for all to see, hence the ability of the casual viewer to be a one-night Nostradamus.