Drake, the Grammy Award-winning rapper placed a $2 million bet on Israel Adesanya to win the bout against Alex Pereira which took place on 12 November 2022 at UFC 281. However, Adesanya lost the fight and title via technical knockout in the fifth round, his first loss at middleweight.
Prior to the fight, Drake posted his betting slip on his Instagram story and captioned it, “been focused on the album gotta get back to stacking up.”
Drake would have had a profit of $900,000 if Adesanya had emerged victorious.
Drae’s bet seemed to be on course especially because Adesanya had the upper hand for a large amount of the fight.
However, Adesanya’s dominance was curtailed in the fifth round, when Pereira landed some huge blows that left Adesanya a little wobbly on his feet.
While Pereira didn’t knock down Adesanya, the referee stopped the fight and Pereira was declared the winner.
It can be recalled that Drake won a $1 million bet when Adesanya defeated Jared Cannonier back in July.
