Canadian rapper Drake lost a $450,000 (approximately N720M) bet when Israel Adesanya was defeated by Dricus du Plessis in a UFC fight.
The rapper had placed a whopping $450,000 bet on the match and on Israel Adesanya to win back his middleweight belt from the reigning champ.
If Adesanya had won, Drake would have earned $850,000.
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Drake is known for frequently losing sports bets. In the past, he has also bet on fighters like Alex Pereira, Nate Diaz, Leon Edwards, and Francis Ngannou, but those bets didn’t go his way either.
During Adesanya’s first UFC fight with Alex Pereira, Drake, according to reports, staked CA$2,000,000 , an equivalent of N600 million then, on the Nigerian mixed martial artist hoping to get a win of CA$2,900,000, but it didn’t go as he expected as Adesanya was knocked out few minutes to the end of the contest.
He, however, won when he placed a $400,000 bet on Adesanya to knock out Pereira in the rematch.
The ‘Hotline Bling’ singer has gained notoriety for losing sport bettings.
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