10 underdogs IN A ROW win at UFN 61
The only thing certain in mixed martial arts is that you never know what is going to happen, and that is why you have the fight.
Beating the odds is, well, it is beating the odds. If it happens twice, in a row, well, that’s bound to happen sometimes. On Sunday night, in Porto Alegre Brazil, the card started out ordinarily enough, with the favorite, Brazilian Ivan Jorge, taking a unanimous decision. Then then the underdog won the next ten fights in a row. This has ever happened again, and in all likelihood will never happen again.
Josh Shockley +190
Ivan Jorge -240
Douglas Silva De Andrade +200
Cody Gibson -260
Mike De La Torre +175
Tiago Trator -220
Matt Dwyer +300
William Macario -400
Marion Reneau +210
Jessica Andrade -280
Santiago Ponzinibbio +155
Sean Strickland -190
Frankie Saenz +550
Iuri Alcantara -900
Adriano Martins +375
Rustam Khabilov -550
Sam Alvey +275
Cezar Ferreira -375
Michael Johnson +155
Edson Barboza -190
Frank Mir +190
Antonio Silva -240
It just goes to prove that you never know what is going to happen in mixed martial arts, which is why you have the fight.
The sports books took a terrible beating, with one losing around $1,000,000.
Kevin Bradley was surprised by the call he got on Sunday night.
It was one of his employees who helps him manage boxing and UFC betting for the online sportsbook he works for, Bovada.LV.
If Frank Mir beat Antonio Silva in the final fight of UFC Fight Night 61, the sportsbook would take a historic beating, he was told.
“Normally, going into an event, I know what we need,” said Bradley, the sportsbook manager for the site. “But I was focused on the Oscars and the Daytona 500, both of which we were … doing well on. What happened with UFC is just so rare.”
One bettor had a $4 all-underdog parlay which paid $85,000. Another had four $1 parlays that paid $25,000 each.
“We had at least a dozen of these bets that paid out $10,000 or more,” Bradley said.
When all was tallied up, Bradley said the loss approached nearly $1 million on the single event.
“We take in so much more money on the NFL or the NBA that when you have these types of parlay winners, it’s hard to hurt [our business],” Bradley said. “With UFC, this will be hard to come back from.”
“We’re not getting this money back from the people that won,” Bradley said. “The type of bettor that wins these bets throws a small amount of money on all the favorites or all the underdogs to try to get rich. Well, I guess it worked.”