Is the notorious Drake curse about to strike as soon as once more?
Drake has been fairly good at making hit singles and getting completely owned throughout Tremendous Bowl halftime exhibits, however in relation to selecting winners, he’s removed from dependable. It began again in 2022 when the Canadian hip-hop star dropped $275,000 on Jorge Masvidal to beat Colby Covington of their UFC 272 grudge match.
Two months later, he misplaced almost half one million {dollars} betting on Justin Gaethje to beat Charles Oliveira.
Within the time since, Drake put massive cash on Jose Aldo to beat Merab Dvalishvili, Israel Adesanya to finest Alex Pereira of their inaugural UFC conflict, and ‘Gamebred’ to bounce again with a win over Gilbert Burns. He additionally misplaced a mixed $1.15 million betting in opposition to reigning middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis in his title win over Sean Strickland and his first profitable protection in opposition to Adesanya.
Briefly, don’t take betting recommendation from Drake.
Is ‘poatan’ the subsequent drake curse sufferer?
With one other massive pay-per-view simply days away, we might see the rapper drop some critical coin on Saturday’s most important occasion conflict between defending mild heavyweight champion Alex Pereira and top-ranked contender Magomed Ankalaev.
Nonetheless, welterweight king Belal Muhammad thinks that guess or no guess, ‘Poatan’ might already be cursed after the Brazilian boogeyman was noticed spending a while with Drake in The Land Down Beneath.
“I’m selecting Magomed Ankalaev on this one,” Muhammad informed Paul Felder and Michael Bisping on the Imagine You Me podcast. “Particularly, Pereira, he’s been in Australia, he’s chilling with Drake… “
“That’s not good,” Felder replied. “We all know that’s not good, proper?”
To be truthful, Drake cashed a $675,000 guess on Pereira to knock out Jamahal Hill at UFC 300, so possibly ‘Poatan’ is immune.
Solely time will inform.