MMA’s notorious ‘Drake Curse‘ has struck once more.
With UFC 297 emanating from his hometown of Toronto, Canada, it’s no shock that the Grammy Award winner dropped one other huge guess on the night time’s largest battle. By way of his social media channels, Drake revealed that he threw down $700k on defending champion Sean Strickland to go away The Nice White North along with his title intact.
After 25 entertaining minutes of motion, Dricus Du Plessis was introduced because the winner through break up determination, marking one other huge loss for Drake. In fact, it hasn’t been all dangerous for the singer/songwriter. ‘Drizzy’ made a whopping $1.38 million after wagering $1 million on Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis to defeat Ryan Garcia final 12 months. He additionally scored over $2.7 million in winnings after betting that Adesanya wouldn’t solely avenge his UFC 281 loss to Pereira however that he would get it executed by knockout of their UFC 287 rematch.
Nevertheless, he misplaced $500k betting on Israel Adesanya to KO Sean Strickland throughout their UFC 293 conflict in September. Nonetheless, by our calculations, Drake is taking part in with home cash.
As for the brand new UFC middleweight world champion, Dricus Du Plessis has a plethora of choices for his first title protection. The likeliest state of affairs has him squaring off with Israel Adesanya following the pair’s heated face-to-face encounter contained in the Octagon in July. Khamzat Chimaev is one other risk, however UFC CEO Dana White seemingly dominated out the notion of an instantaneous rematch between ‘DDP’ and Strickland though he felt Strickland did sufficient to stroll away the winner on Saturday night time.