Drake misplaced $2 million on the UFC middleweight title battle between middleweight champion Israel Adesanya and beat Alex Pereira.
On Saturday (Nov. 12), earlier than the battle began, Drake jumped on his Instagram Story to share that he guess $2 million on Adesanya to defeat Pereira of their UFC 281 middleweight title battle at New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard. Drizzy captioned the screenshot of his betting ticket, “Been targeted on the album gotta get again to stacking up.” He additionally tagged sports activities betting app Stake, which he partnered with earlier this 12 months.
Drake’s betting sheet on UFC 281 battle on Saturday night time.
Welp, Drake misplaced two million stacks after Adesanya’s defeat.
After 4 rounds, it appeared Adesanya was successful the battle. Nonetheless, Pereira delivered a sequence of physique blows to drag off a stunning upset by scoring a TKO within the fifth spherical and successful the UFC middleweight title.
This isn’t the primary time the 6 God has misplaced some massive cash betting on UFC fights. Again in March, Drake misplaced $275,000 betting in opposition to Colby Covington in UFC 272. In Could, Drake needed to cough up $550,000 after betting on Justin Ray Gaethje to beat Charles Oliviera in UFC 274. Oliviera gained that matchup.
In August, the Toronto rap star received referred to as out by MMA fighter Leon Edwards after he guess in opposition to him in his UFC 278 battle in opposition to Kamaru Usman. Edwards defeated Usman and Drizzy took a $200,000 loss.
Leon Edwards was requested about Drake betting in opposition to him within the post-fight interview.
“Subsequent time, guess on me and get me a kind of Rolexes that you simply gave Molly [McCann] and Paddy [Pimblett]. Ship one my method,” Edwards acknowledged.
Edwards is referring to Drake promising MMA fighters Paddy Pimblett Molly McCann Rolex watches after he gained over $2 million betting on the fighters in July.
After shedding $2 million, folks could recommend that Drake take a break from UFC betting and stack his cash elsewhere.
