{"id":792415,"date":"2026-07-11T00:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792415\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:13:09","slug":"drake-bets-1-million-on-conor-mcgregor-vs-max-holloway-at-ufc-329","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792415\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake bets $1 million on Conor McGregor vs. Max Holloway at UFC 329"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drake has such a spotty history of sports gambling<\/a> that \u201cThe Drake Curse\u201d is a talking point whenever he makes a big bet. The whole thing has gotten so well known that the rapper recently tried to use his anti-sauce to \u201creverse curse\u201d Morocco in its World Cup game against Canada. He bet against his home country, throwing a single dollar on Morocco to win.<\/p>\n

Alas, the gambling gods cannot be fooled by such a cheap ruse \u2014 Morocco handled Canada 3-0.<\/p>\n

Now, Drake is back to his big money ways with a $1 million bet on Stake that McGregor will beat Holloway (again<\/a>) in UFC 329\u2019s Paramount+<\/a>-streamed main event.<\/p>\n

If he\u2019s right, the bet will pay out $2.85 million, which ain\u2019t too bad; however, we certainly wouldn\u2019t be taking any McGregor action at +185.<\/a> It\u2019s a testament to \u201cThe Notorious\u201d and his popularity that the odds are so close given the Mac\u2019s inactivity and Holloway\u2019s run over the past five years.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t just blame a McGregor loss on the \u201cDrake Curse,\u201d is what we\u2019re saying. But, even those suspicious enough to believe in such things should consider the counter-curse in play: EA\u2019s UFC game cover curse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Every fighter who has been featured on the cover of EA Sports UFC has lost their next fight. The curse proved itself alive and well after Alex Pereira \u2014 on the cover of the new EA UFC 6 game \u2014 lost to Ciryl Gane at UFC Freedom 250<\/a> last month (watch highlights<\/a>). And you know who else is on the cover of the special edition<\/a> EA UFC 6 game?<\/p>\n

Max \u201cBlessed\u201d Holloway.<\/p>\n

So, is \u201cBlessed\u201d now cursed? Which curse is stronger, EA\u2019s UFC cover curse or the Drake curse? We\u2019ll have to see on Saturday when McGregor and Holloway finally face off in UFC 329\u2019s main event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drake has such a spotty history of sports gambling that \u201cThe Drake Curse\u201d is a talking point whenever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,318251,1396,179146],"class_list":["post-792415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-329","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}