Undertaker's loss to Brock Lesnar costs gambling site a lot of money

[Betallsports]

Sunday was not a good day for Bovada.lv.


For the fourth year in a row, the gambling website offered wagers on the WWE's Super Bowl, WrestleMania.
For the past 21 years, the Undertaker had won his match at WrestleMania.
Not last night.


In a stunning turn of scripted events, heavy underdog Brock Lesnar ended the Undertaker's winning streak and made bettors a lot of money.


Bovada Sportsbook manager Kevin Bradley told the Buzzer his site took in about 1,000 wagers on the Lesnar-Undertaker match with eight times more people betting Lesnar than Undertaker.


Odds on the match ranged from 14-to-1 to 8-to-1.


Bradley said the maximum bet for the match was $100, but the site took some "over bets" with people betting as much as $500 on Lesnar.


John Cena was also a big underdog who won his match (against Bray Wyatt), making Bovada's night even rougher.


Overall, Bradley says Bovada booked about 5,000 bets on WrestleMania, and despite the rough night Sunday, the site would like to offer wagers on more WWE pay-per-view events in the future.

 

[KingofNicotine]

Even a scripted even is unpredictable in the end unless you have inside info which apparently some people did because Brock was 50-1 at some point.

 

[goin4broke]

i read that the result of the match leaked about an hour before it started and books scrambled to make brock the favorite

 

[HacheMan]

i read that the result of the match leaked about an hour before it started and books scrambled to make brock the favorite

I wouldn't doubt it and exactly what I touched on in this thread....

http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=986938&highlight=wrestlemania+odds

 

[tatehill2000]

I smell alot of bets getting cancelled.. lol

 

[TyBounce]

I read on one of the rag sheets that it dropped from 40/1 to 7/2

The wrestling world was shocked that he lost , but obviously somebody knew it.

 

[HacheMan]

Even in wrestling where everything is a show, aren't the fans wise enough (guess not since you have a hard time convincing most it's not real) to understand that Brock Lesnar is so popular that it was possible he would be chosen the winner in that matchup to spark even more fan-interest???

I don't even following wrestling but know the names & would have layed big odds on Lesnar just for the simple fact I posted above... (If I had cared or payed attention)

 

[CarolinaKid]

im against anything to do with betting on a damn wwe match and imo no book should ever take action on these events

 

[KingofNicotine]

I think very few people think wrestling is real. Probably the little children in the audience.

 

[Betallsports]

I think very few people think wrestling is real. Probably the little children in the audience.

WTF ???? what are you going to tell me Next .... there's No such thing as the Easter Bunny ?

 

[scottcarter]

I always find it funny what people will bet on. I can't see a situation where I would ever bet on Wrestling or Dwarf tossing. God bless all you that find the time and money to do so.