{"id":153079,"date":"2025-09-13T04:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153079\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T04:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:26:06","slug":"canelo-alvarez-terence-crawford-fight-odds-1-bettor-wagers-2-million-on-terence-crawford-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153079\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez-Terence Crawford fight, odds: 1 bettor wagers $2 million on Terence Crawford to win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terence Crawford and Saul &#8220;Canelo&#8221; Alvarez <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/boxing\/article\/canelo-alvarez-vs-terence-crawford-fight-card-start-time-everything-you-need-to-know-for-netflix-bout-022823915.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:square off on Saturday;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">square off on Saturday<\/a> at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas in one of the biggest fights of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Several bettors will have a very large rooting interest.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A bettor at <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/mediaserver.betmgmpartners.com\/renderBanner.do?zoneId=1734022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BetMGM;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BetMGM<\/a> wagered $2 million on Crawford to win the fight at +140 odds on Friday night. The wager would win $2.8 million and is the largest reported wager on the fight.<\/p>\n<p>One bettor at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas also wagered $715,000 on Crawford to win the fight at +140 odds, which would win just over $1 million ($1.001 million to be exact). Other sportsbooks have taken six-figure wagers on Crawford as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just took a very large bet on Crawford to win and by KO,&#8221; Andrew Babakitis, risk manager at the Westgate Las Vegas Super Book, told Yahoo Sports via text message on Friday afternoon. &#8220;Price moved from -180 to -160 on Canelo. We have three times as many bets on Crawford. Book loses on both fighters by KO, we are likely going to need a decision if we want to win on the fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez opened as a -200 favorite at BetMGM, but is down to -150 on the three-way line, while Crawford opened as a +175 underdog and is currently +150. While only 23% of wagers are on Alvarez to win, nearly half the total dollars wagered (42%) at BetMGM are on Canelo, while the betting public is backing the underdog, with 33% of wagers on Crawford to win.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half the bets (44%) and total dollars wagered (44%) were on a tie, as of Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford and Saul &#8220;Canelo&#8221; Alvarez square off on Saturday at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas in one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[22286,99,88253],"class_list":["post-153079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-caesars-palace","tag-sports","tag-terence-crawford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}