Battle followers concern Logan Paul will grow to be the most recent athlete to fall sufferer to the “Drake curse” after the rapper revealed he has an £700,000 wager on the YouTuber to beat Dillon Danis. At odds of 1.59, the Grammy Award-winning artist will earn over £1million if Paul wins by knockout within the crossover boxing match this weekend.
Drake isn’t any stranger to betting on boxing, significantly these crossover fights. In February, he wagered £329,000 on Logan’s brother, Jake, to knock out Tommy Fury, who fights KSI on this weekend’s card.
Nevertheless, Fury gained by cut up determination, and that was the final Drake noticed of his six-figure sum. However, undeterred, he’s again for extra. Once more retaining his allegiances to the Paul household, he has backed the elder brother, Logan.
“By no means wager in opposition to private vendetta and settling scores,” Drake shared on , tagging Paul. The submit contains a screenshot of his betting slip.
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Danis shares a photograph on social media of him and Drake collectively after seeing the rapper wager on Paul (Picture: X/@dillondanis)
Within the feedback, Conor McGregor has made his prediction clear, replying: “Dillon all day!” Danis is a long-time coaching companion of the previous two-weight UFC champion.
On X, previously often called Twitter, Paul’s opponent reposted Drake’s wager and responded: “850 on my head is disrespect.” Danis additionally shared a previous picture of himself posing alongside the rapper.
Now, he’ll hope to show Drake fallacious and reinforce the “curse” that seemingly follows the Canadian. He’s famend for dropping large sums staked on fights.
Drake is a long-time UFC fan, showing at Las Vegas weigh-ins with McGregor method again in 2018 (Picture: Brandon Magnus/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC through Getty Photographs)
Final month, he was due a £758,000 payday after backing Adesanya to retain his UFC middleweight title and win by knockout. Nevertheless, the champion was surprisingly crushed for simply the third time in his profession by the challenger Sean Strickland through unanimous determination at UFC 293.
Drake has a poor monitor document of selecting the winner in fight sports activities. Final March, he misplaced a mammoth sum after backing Jorge Masvidal to beat Colby Covington. Undeterred, he went even larger by staking £453,000 on Justin Gaethje to defeat Charles Oliveira. That luck did appear to have turned considerably this 12 months, although.
Drake pocketed $2.7 million from Adesanya’s earlier struggle when he KO’d Alex Pereira in April’s rematch. The musician repeatedly backs the New Zealander, win or lose, doing so final summer season in opposition to Jared Cannonier and taking dwelling £853,000.
Different favorites of his are Paddy Pimblett and Molly McCann, staking six-figure sums on them at UFC London for a large £2.9million payday that got here on this summer season.
What would derail Drake incomes his successful once more can be if the struggle had been to not go forward afterall. That probability seemingly elevated after Danis hit Paul with a microphone throughout their ultimate press convention.
A budget shot got here after his opponent threw what gave the impression to be a drink over the Bellator star. Danis later took to X, offering a photograph of blood on the ground, supposedly from Paul’s subsequent facial wound.
