Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor will compete in the first-ever sanctioned boxing match between a champion of boxing and a champion from the UFC. The fight will take place tomorrow night (8/26) from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Yes. That Las Vegas.
Unless you are a Raiders fan, Las Vegas sounds pretty good. But when they’re not stealing an NFL team from the bay area (we at the FM Flagship station for the San Francisco 49ers are also sad to see the Silver & Black leave) the city of sin is also the gambling capital of the world.
Is there an opportunity to secure a “sure thing” in the Mayweather and McGregor fight?
From the moment the fight was sanctioned, oddsmakers saw Mayweather as the heavy favorite to win. Early betting odds had McGregor as much 10/1 underdog – meaning that if you bet $100 on McGregor and he defeated Mayweather, you’d win $1,000 on your winning ticket. To put into a football perspective, about the same odds are placed on the Oakland Raiders winning the AFC Championship game while the New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers and 13 other teams are also in the conference.
As the money poured it on McGregor the odds sank. As of the middle of this week before the fight, a McGregor bet of $100 would only net $325 in return.
Me? I’m taking Mayweather. But I won’t mortgage my house or even risk having to sell my Harley-Davidson to recover the losses if McGregor does stun the world. And, if Floyd “Money” Mayweather does win easily, I’ll suffer from the “could have and should have” syndrome that sports gamblers know all too well.
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