Drake bets $600k on Joshua-Ngannou fight despite infamous \u2018Drake Curse\u2019 Associated PressHip-hop artist Drake placed a sizable bet ahead of the Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou match \u2013 but fans are already calling out his infamous \u2018Drake Curse.\u2019 Drake posted a screenshot of his $600k bet on former UFC champion Francis Ngannou on Instagram. It would net him nearly $2 million if the MMA star upsets former boxing champion Anthony Joshua on March 8. News of the wager immediately caught fire on social media as fans began mentioning Drake\u2019s long history of failed sports bets over the years. A history of the \u2018Drake Curse\u2019 From his home country team the Toronto Raptors to his favorite college basketball squad the Kentucky Wildcats, Drake has a long history of \u2018cursing\u2019 those that he places wagers on. Perhaps the most infamous instance came in the 2015-16 NBA season when Drake bet on the 73-9 Golden State Warriors to win the NBA Finals. As fans know, the Warriors would go on to blow a 3-1 lead in the finals to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. As for his history with combat sports wagers, Drake was on the wrong side of history for the Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov scrum. Now, it\u2019s up to Ngannou to reverse the curse and make good on Drake\u2019s belief in him. Or, as some have suggested on social media, maybe Drake is actually putting a \u2018reverse jinx\u2019 on Joshua. It wouldn\u2019t be the first time he\u2019s tried to reverse the \u2018curse.\u2019 Joshua is a proven star in the boxing world. He\u2019s a two-time unified World Heavyweight Champion with a 27-3 professional record. Ngannou is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion known for his trademark power. He currently fights for the Professional Fighters League. Joshua and Ngannou will meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in a ten-round bout with a sold-out crowd of passionate fans. Drake is banking on Ngannou\u2019s power to shine through. It instantly will become one of the biggest upsets in recent memory if Joshua loses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Drake bets $600k on Joshua-Ngannou fight despite infamous \u2018Drake Curse\u2019 Associated PressHip-hop artist Drake placed a sizable bet ahead of the Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou match \u2013 but fans are already calling out his infamous \u2018Drake Curse.\u2019 Drake posted a screenshot of his $600k bet on former UFC champion Francis Ngannou on Instagram. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}