Drake was confident that Jake Paul could pull off an upset victory over Anthony Joshua in their heavyweight boxing match on Friday night. <\/p>\n
He was so confident, in fact, that he posted an image of a $200,000 bet that he placed on Paul to emerge victorious over Joshua, which would pay out $1.64 million.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for Drake, Joshua dominated Paul, securing a sixth-round knockout to beat the YouTuber-turned-boxer. <\/p>\n
Drake was hoping for a better result than the $355,000 wager<\/a> he placed on Mike Tyson to defeat Paul in Nov. 2024, as “The Problem Child” ended up winning. <\/p>\n The 39-year-old has\u00a0generated attention<\/a>\u00a0for his large bets on a variety of sports, but hasn’t found much success with boxing as of late.<\/p>\n Drake\u00a0lost<\/a>\u00a0a $565,000 bet on Tyson Fury to beat Oleksandr Usyk in May 2024 after\u00a0losing<\/a>\u00a0a $615,000 wager on Francis Ngannou to beat Joshua in March of the same year.<\/p>\n Joshua has only fought once since his victory over Ngannou, suffering a defeat at the hands of Daniel Dubois in Sept. 2024. Still, his track record made him the favorite over Paul.<\/p>\n The former two-time unified WBO, IBF, and WBA heavyweight champion boasted a 28-4 record, including 25 knockouts, entering Friday’s fight.<\/p>\n As for Paul, he entered Friday’s bout with a record of 12-1. He had won each of his past six fights, with his last victory coming against Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr. on June 28.<\/p>\n With his latest loss coming to Joshua, Drake might think twice before placing a bet on Paul in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drake was confident that Jake Paul could pull off an upset victory over Anthony Joshua in their heavyweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-357360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}