Drake tried a risky bet… which turned out to be a loser this weekend.
Lured by underdog Jorge Masvidal's big odds against Colby Covington in an all-American middleweight clash, the American rapper shed $275,000 after Covington's unanimous decision win.
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Let's talk about all the money Drake lost tonight,
reacted the winner at the press conference after UFC 272.
He should go back to selling his m**de albums to get his money back .
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Drake had staged validating his bet on social networks, before the fight.
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Drake, you're really bad at sports betting.
Go back to rapping and making your little m**de albums
,” Covington added.
A loss to put into perspective for the Toronto rapper, who would have raised $ 50 million in 2021, according to information from
Forbes,
ranking him in fourth place among the highest paid rappers in the world.
Over a million dollars won at the Super Bowl
A failed bet for Drake a few weeks after a much happier bet.
The rapper, who had bet on the LA Rams and on a touchdown from Odell Beckham Jr during the Super Bowl, had won more than a million dollars at the end of the high mass of American football.
Bets in the line of Floyd Mayweather.
The aptly named "Money Man" is a regular multi-million dollar bet on the Super Bowl or other American sports.
In 2014, he was even suspected of having lost more than 10 million dollars on the Broncos, defeated in the Super Bowl by the Seahawks, which he denied.
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