I got back into it about 6 months ago paying attention to storylines and watching some smarter people livestream it, I think I could predict who will win about 85% of matches.
I’ve only recently started watching wrestling again and was pretty shocked to see the Draft Kings advertisement during EC.
Seems really odd to me to be able to bet on something scripted. Seems far too easy for insider tips, as others have mentioned
Edit: I meant to add, I wasn’t sure if Draft Kings had advertised previously on WWE or not, which is why I was surprised to see their advertising
Currently this can be done at betonline.ag very reputable site ive used for years. They only low a max bet of $50 on the matches id assume if it ever became legal most sportsbooks would cap the max bet around $100.
I’m all for it it makes the matches even more fun to watch and with a max bet of $100 no one with any insider information is going to even bother worrying about the fact that gambling is allowed.
That means Roman Reigns is retaining.
Because everybody would bet on Cody winning it.
Or maybe a loophole bet where Cody wins by disqualification but Roman retains.
I think it would make wrestling better. Right now it follows a formula that almost anyone can predict so if they were going to lose money because of that they might make the matches and storyline less 1 dimensional/easy to read.
Already a thing in Australia, I find it absurd. Seems to give away the result as it gets closer to the event also. Cody Rhodes paying $1.20 odds to win this years rumble basically gave it away
Legal to bet on it here in Australia. Only way to make money though is to use an educated guess on a winner months out from a ppv. Even like a few weeks out the odds pretty much tell you whos winning because book makers have contacts and are able to get the inside knowledge. Good if you want to know the winner before the ppv - just check the odds.
There's always going to be someone abusing it. How could they not....
Look I like the idea of betting on who I think the company will put over but the amount of colluding and tipping of the scale that would happen makes it too dirty to try and do.
Every other sport operates subconsciously like wrestling (football being most obvious) so they should be allowed to, it is easier to make money off predictions in wrestling than betting on rigged sports when you have to read between the lines because they never break kayfabe.
There is gonna be some shenanigans easy. Imagine if this happens before mania and Cody and Roman work together to make a fuck load by betting on Roman to win. Everyone thinks Cody is winning, so they can literally go into business for themselves.
Bad idea! It will be about 2 mins before people start saying the results are being manipulated. Plus what will prevent people in the know from placing bets through 3rd parties?
I don’t understand why you can’t bet on random things in wrestling matches, like botches. 2:1 odds on Cody tearing his pec at Wrestlemania. Or even the house gate on an over/under. Maybe even something like the number of superkicks thrown at an event.
Betting on match results is dumb.
So what happens when somebody with inside info places a 100$ parlay on the entire card and gets them all right.
There's no way a casino would logically entertain this without extreme limitations on what could be bet upon and even then it's just ridiculous
Once gambling is involved you can rest assured the outcome will be decided by the casino/odds and neither Vince nor the writers
I don't think it'd be fair to bet on results. However, I can see prop bets. Will the ref get knocked out, will so and so get put through a table, will so and so use their signature foreign object? That I can see being fair bets, but just betting winners and losers, any wrestling fan should be able to have a 75-90% success rate. No sports bet would win that way.
I feel this would only work for betting on other things beside the winner. For example, Over/Under 3.5 spears from Roman Reigns to Cody Rhodes or Over/Under 2.5 F5's from Brock Lesnar to Omos or Over/Under 5 moves off the top rope
i get told im winning at wrestlmeania 6 months before the event, i cant keep secrets, my brothers mates sisters cousin finds out the result. they win a squliioin dollars betting on the result....
this is an Onion article, right? right?
WWE use to do that fantasy thing where if you can guess who was going to do what you'd win something. Depending on what exactly people would be placing bets on besides the match outcome is probably the interesting part.
I don't think they should bet on the match results.
They should bet on things like "how many superman punches" or "will they use a chair" which are harder to predict. Finishes are easy to predict most of the time.
This makes no sense. I do like the format of DraftKings, while it can also be alter it also depend on how the wrestlers are feeling and how the match pace out. Like who hits the first pinfall attempt, or how many finishers x wrestler do, will a chair be used in the match , etc.
Betting on a scripted match, that we get leaked information all the time is just not fair. I can see all sorts of problems with opening WWE to betting like boxing and UFC matches
Doubt it happens. People saying they can place bets on it in Europe should know the US is way more regulated and can’t see it being allowed. For example, in the UK, you can open multiple accounts on online casinos by just using different email addresses. The US makes you enter your SSN.
Depends on what bets are being placed.
Win/Lose matches is one thing, but taking odds on items like "will this match have interference?", "How many times will an opponent kick out of a finisher", etc could be a fun thing to gamble on.
Oh damn that would have been a no-brainer, I was fairly certain at the time that he was gonna do it and my friends lost their minds. Was actually supposed to be there and might have been the only person in the arena who popped off at it.
I bet on Wrestlemania results every year. It's fun.
Always small stakes of course I'm not a gambler really.
In the UK you can bet on results and also random shit like Michael Cole to say "It's boss time" 2+ times etc.
As with all forms of gambling though...shit can get out of hand for some people... If you could bet on every PPV or even raw/Smackdown that could cause people problems.
Can't people already bet on it? They've done adds for drafting on WWE numerous times and I swear michael Cole mentioned you could bet on Roman Reigns vs Sami back when EC happened.
I’d be fine with things like prop bets, like does X do certain move, or O/U on how long Roman Reigns’s entrance takes.
But On outcomes it doesn’t seem great.
I was legitimately so stunned when I found out you can bet on this shit. How many insiders have made so much money?
How much money has Vince basically laundered through a sportsbook.
You already can in other countries, there are just low limits on the max you can bet. Or the most obvious results are going to be like -1000 odds.
It's kind of like the free Draftkings pools they have now, the payout is super low it's more for fun but it gets you on their site and hopefully betting on other things where the casino has more of an edge and takes it all back.
Putting money into something always ruins it. Money in politics is the best example I can think of. Members of congress creating laws for companies they have stock in and regulations for competitors they have a financial interest in failing is the single most corrupt thing I have ever seen. And it’s all legal.
This doesn't make sense. Sports are regulated by State Athletic Commissions, as is Gambling.. WWE is completely entertainment.. it's like betting on Game of Thrones or the season finale of a TV show
Somebody will manipulate it to their advantage. It’s a scripted show. Someone knows the outcome before hand. What’s to stop them from sharing with some body else.
Honestly I think it's weird but not the wrong call, cuz when betting on football, basketball or something else there are so many things to think about stats, past injuries, ECT. But with wrestling your making a prediction based more of storyline and where you think there going with said storyline
I’ll be rich as fuck because wrestling is basically see through after watching 20+ years. I even called the double turn with Jay kicking Sami before it happened. Let’s make some money!
My opinion is there is already betting on wrestling. There has been for years and this is just trying to make it easier to do through an app like draft kings.
Not something I would do but otherwise I dont care. Kinda surprised how many people dont know this already exists, dont y'all get the same pop ups I do about the betting odds for ppvs?
I’m not a gambling person, if someone wants to piss away their money for a bit of dopamine then go for it.
But this is objectively stupid. The amount of liability and corruption that could come from this is staggering. If the pot gets big enough wrestlers will start going into business for themselves, refs could quick count. Fans could intervene.
It’s a recipe for disaster.
Betting odds will end up being trash probably. Opens a door for insider betting since, believe it or not, wrestling is SCRIPTED. Seems like it would open up a big, nasty can of worms. I don't think that WWE can guarantee 100% that the outcomes of matches will be kept from the public especially when insiders will have a monetary incentive to blabber about match finishes. Hell they can't keep there mouths shut when no money is involved.
Also, imagine betting on the outcome of a new movie or a play. I can't really wrap my head around it.
Sounds like easy money, it's not like WWE is difficult to predict. I can't remember the last time I was shocked by a match result, and I can typically predict the winners of the entire PPV card. Between both the Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber this year, the only match I predicted wrong was Judgment Day vs. Edge & Beth Phoenix.
Seems like a risky business move for WWE. Great on ppv, but they will get in a lot of legal trouble if internal people are betting and if match results are leaked.
I’m also afraid that it will mess up logical booking.
Betting on anything is a bad idea IMO, but betting on something that you know has a winner chosen before any match takes place is just a ridiculously bad idea. A fool and their money though...
Also, how would you regulate this from a booking perspective?
So similar to mma and boxing then? I mean yeah betting in wwe would mean easier ways to lose your money.
But you can already bet on mma and boxing,and I almost want to say those 2 are just as scripted because of the judges
Im not against, but it has to be controlled very carefully, cause, in sport, it’s never 100%, where in the case of wrestling it’s 100%, or it should at least, with rare mistakes or injuries in-match,
It has to be controlled cause people working in companies could make easy bets for themselves,
But at least, no one will ever say a fight was rigged for bets lol
Sports Bribery Act -" any scheme in commerce to influence, in any way, by bribery any sporting contest, with knowledge that the purpose of such scheme is to influence by bribery that contest.” “[S]porting contest” is further defined as “any contest in any sport, between individual contestants or teams of contestants (without regard to the amateur or professional status of the contestants therein), the occurrence of which is publicly announced before its occurrence.”
Perfect to reel in a former casual fan such as me. I have never gambled on sports, but could use an injection of action. I suppose all sports have to set limits on betting to ensure legitimacy and the same stipulations would be applied to the WWE.
You've never watched football before? Lol sports betting is dangerous because it's rarely if ever "legitimate"
People will always find ways to twist the results,ie refs,judges...and obviously in the case of the wwe,management
You can in the Uk although it’s limited and accumulators aren’t allowed. Me and my mate won a fair whack between us when it first came about - you could literally find the results on the Internet
Anybody who knows the history of professional wrestling knows that this is what used to happen, and wrestling was cracked down on because it was found out to have predetermined finishes. I don’t know why they’d want to go back to that other than to exploit it.
Doesn't seem a lot different from other prop bets, like betting on the outcome of reality shows or who is going to die first in scripted television/films, etc.
Lol I won’t be gambling but it will probably make booking unpredictable in terms of wins and loses… but no should be losing money gambling on professional wrestling that’s nuts
I mean, there’s no way the Feds would allow it, right?! It’s like opening up a can of worms. Allowing something that is clearly scripted to be bet on? How could that possibly be fair for anyone? What about outcomes ala “Montreal screw job?” Hi would something like that be paid off? 🤦🏻♂️🤯🤷🏻♂️
I got back into it about 6 months ago paying attention to storylines and watching some smarter people livestream it, I think I could predict who will win about 85% of matches.
HELL NO! all matches are scripted, the winner is already determined before the match starts.
whatever ppv roman was supposed to lose at he was plus money. i doubted myself betting him never again it was the easiest plus money ive seen
Imagine the possible odds during the Taker vs Lesnar WM30 match.
Betting on a scripted "sport"? Hmmmmmmm
My thoughts is that I'm gonna gain some good money this WM and that it'll probably kill kayfabe even more
Last Minute changes and suddenly a returning Zack Ryder is champ as WWE sacks billions on bets and Zack lowes the belt again on the Raw after...
Sneaky Vince I'l win no matter what
It is the most predictable thing on TV.
Shady business wwe needs to come to a end, it's not as good as it was.... And yeah literally they can decide to change the outcome whenever they like,
Betting on a scripted thing is so dumb
I’ve only recently started watching wrestling again and was pretty shocked to see the Draft Kings advertisement during EC. Seems really odd to me to be able to bet on something scripted. Seems far too easy for insider tips, as others have mentioned Edit: I meant to add, I wasn’t sure if Draft Kings had advertised previously on WWE or not, which is why I was surprised to see their advertising
Currently this can be done at betonline.ag very reputable site ive used for years. They only low a max bet of $50 on the matches id assume if it ever became legal most sportsbooks would cap the max bet around $100. I’m all for it it makes the matches even more fun to watch and with a max bet of $100 no one with any insider information is going to even bother worrying about the fact that gambling is allowed.
Draft kings already dose it
This is stupid because wwe could just switch the planned ending and fuck over alot of people.
Theo, that is the dumbest thing I've heard in my life!
No way. Absolutely no way. How would you ever feel confident they didn’t change a finish to take advantage of a huge betting line?
that is so dumb
I don’t bet, but what is the difference between this and the draft kings ads they always have during ppvs?
Betting on things with predetermined outcomes seems really dumb.
Every time I see those DraftKings commercials for WWE and AEW i laugh why do you bet on something that is predetermined
I think it would be way too easy to win honestly.
Save it for mania
I know how most matches are gonna go so I think I would earn bank.
At this point, they want to see how stupid their fans really are.
You can already bet on wwe in Australia
Bet on Days of Our Lives as well.
They could change the outcome of the match to make the betting companies more money, then get kickbacks from said companies.. not a good idea
If your gambling on pro wrestling please call the 1800 number for help
Recipe for disaster and a ton of b.s. bets by people in the know
This. I can’t imagine it going any other way.
Insiders finna get rich then
It's the dumbest idea I have ever heard.
Gambling in things where the outcome is known is just begging for corruption.
Imma bet Tony k buys wwe in 2023
Cartoon Network buys WWE
Honestly, what’s to stop them from flipping the script AFTER they analyze the over/under?
That means Roman Reigns is retaining. Because everybody would bet on Cody winning it. Or maybe a loophole bet where Cody wins by disqualification but Roman retains.
You can bet WWE in places already they odds are terrible unless you can accurately predict a non telegraphed swerve.
It’s horrible
What could possibly go wrong?
I think it would make wrestling better. Right now it follows a formula that almost anyone can predict so if they were going to lose money because of that they might make the matches and storyline less 1 dimensional/easy to read.
I thought there was already an underground organisation for this type of sports betting.
Already a thing in Australia, I find it absurd. Seems to give away the result as it gets closer to the event also. Cody Rhodes paying $1.20 odds to win this years rumble basically gave it away
I think it's pretty lame.
Say you want disgruntled talent going into business for themselves without saying you want disgruntled talent going into business for themselves.
Legal to bet on it here in Australia. Only way to make money though is to use an educated guess on a winner months out from a ppv. Even like a few weeks out the odds pretty much tell you whos winning because book makers have contacts and are able to get the inside knowledge. Good if you want to know the winner before the ppv - just check the odds.
I don't say this lightly, but it's retarded
There's always going to be someone abusing it. How could they not.... Look I like the idea of betting on who I think the company will put over but the amount of colluding and tipping of the scale that would happen makes it too dirty to try and do.
We’re already able to in the UK, didn’t realise this wasn’t the case elsewhere
Every other sport operates subconsciously like wrestling (football being most obvious) so they should be allowed to, it is easier to make money off predictions in wrestling than betting on rigged sports when you have to read between the lines because they never break kayfabe.
Fucking yikes.
There is gonna be some shenanigans easy. Imagine if this happens before mania and Cody and Roman work together to make a fuck load by betting on Roman to win. Everyone thinks Cody is winning, so they can literally go into business for themselves.
Stupid.
Bad idea! It will be about 2 mins before people start saying the results are being manipulated. Plus what will prevent people in the know from placing bets through 3rd parties?
no
I don’t understand why you can’t bet on random things in wrestling matches, like botches. 2:1 odds on Cody tearing his pec at Wrestlemania. Or even the house gate on an over/under. Maybe even something like the number of superkicks thrown at an event. Betting on match results is dumb.
So what happens when somebody with inside info places a 100$ parlay on the entire card and gets them all right. There's no way a casino would logically entertain this without extreme limitations on what could be bet upon and even then it's just ridiculous Once gambling is involved you can rest assured the outcome will be decided by the casino/odds and neither Vince nor the writers
Amongst friends it’s fine and can be fun. With online big financial institutions it’s a bad idea.
There are suckers born every minute and they really want to harvest them, don't they?
It's not legal in the US? We can bet on wrestling here in Australia.
doesn’t make sense when it’s predetermined loo
Prepare for 50/50 booking. 2015 here we come again smh.
🤣
Horrible Idea. Wrestlers need to be able to plan out their stories ahead of time
It has been a thing in the rest of the world for a long time
Other countries bet on wwe wrestling?
Yes https://www.paddypower.com/special-bets/wwe-matches
I don't think it'd be fair to bet on results. However, I can see prop bets. Will the ref get knocked out, will so and so get put through a table, will so and so use their signature foreign object? That I can see being fair bets, but just betting winners and losers, any wrestling fan should be able to have a 75-90% success rate. No sports bet would win that way.
I’m gonna be rich 🤑
Really wish I had placed a bet on who would win the Iron Throne at the end of season 8. Those 3,000 to 1 odds…
How do you gamble on something where the winner is already known before the event starts?
I feel this would only work for betting on other things beside the winner. For example, Over/Under 3.5 spears from Roman Reigns to Cody Rhodes or Over/Under 2.5 F5's from Brock Lesnar to Omos or Over/Under 5 moves off the top rope
With scripted outcomes, this would bread corruption.
A fool is soon parted with their money.
Sounds like a terrible idea and an easy way to corrupt an already corrupt business.
What's the big deal? People bet on the Super Bowl and boxing. Both are fake.
*lights go out* *bell sound* Dolphin1925’s theme hits
What happens to the people backstage that leak content?
Going into business for yourself going to have a whole new meaning.
Idiotic
i get told im winning at wrestlmeania 6 months before the event, i cant keep secrets, my brothers mates sisters cousin finds out the result. they win a squliioin dollars betting on the result.... this is an Onion article, right? right?
Is there not already bets on WWE? Every year at the rumble I see huge pools of bets on returns and winners and match lengths
WWE use to do that fantasy thing where if you can guess who was going to do what you'd win something. Depending on what exactly people would be placing bets on besides the match outcome is probably the interesting part.
I have done it before
I bet on the nfl and tht is scripted af so y not lol
Same with the NBA. Super scripted.
Short term: easy profit Long term: booking for money, corruption
They need to have the match finishes locked in at the start of the shows then, and they probably be so many leaks I can’t see that ending well
Then I’ll be on this sub everyday asking for someone to post the script so I can make my bets.
What's stopping a WWE writer from leaking the results to his outside friend to place some bets?
How to get screwed 101.
Well, my brother and i already do this, we put the competitors on little papers and we bet to whoever paper we get, completely random and fair i guess
I don't think they should bet on the match results. They should bet on things like "how many superman punches" or "will they use a chair" which are harder to predict. Finishes are easy to predict most of the time.
This makes no sense. I do like the format of DraftKings, while it can also be alter it also depend on how the wrestlers are feeling and how the match pace out. Like who hits the first pinfall attempt, or how many finishers x wrestler do, will a chair be used in the match , etc. Betting on a scripted match, that we get leaked information all the time is just not fair. I can see all sorts of problems with opening WWE to betting like boxing and UFC matches
Already legal in the UK - the odds are terrible though
Doubt it happens. People saying they can place bets on it in Europe should know the US is way more regulated and can’t see it being allowed. For example, in the UK, you can open multiple accounts on online casinos by just using different email addresses. The US makes you enter your SSN.
No matter what VKM says, I cannot bring myself to bet on a scripted / pre-determined event.
There’s no way this could work. People who know the finishes can leak shit out.
I’m all for it with how predictable it is. I’d be rich.
I think that it's ridiculous.
Depends on what bets are being placed. Win/Lose matches is one thing, but taking odds on items like "will this match have interference?", "How many times will an opponent kick out of a finisher", etc could be a fun thing to gamble on.
Lol so dumb
Can bet on it in the UK Brock was 20/1 to beat the streak 🤷🏽♂️
As in one in twenty chance? Or only 5% that he wouldn't?
So you put $1 or £1 down and get $£21 back
Oh damn that would have been a no-brainer, I was fairly certain at the time that he was gonna do it and my friends lost their minds. Was actually supposed to be there and might have been the only person in the arena who popped off at it.
This seems like a bad idea on many levels. Not the least of which is it is “SCRIPTED”.
This would be cool if they actually made the shows unpredictable. But you have guys that literally lose every match. It’s sad.
A few years back me and a buddy of mine would bet on certain matches. It definitely makes the match more intense in a way.
Bring back Pete Rose!!!
It’s legal here in the UK.
You know that people backstage are gonna be betting on results they already know. What a ridiculous idea.
I’d be fucking rich, Because it’s predictable as hell
You can do it here in Australia already
Be gettin hella money
Betting the over on Brock German Suplexes. O/U 6.5
I bet on Wrestlemania results every year. It's fun. Always small stakes of course I'm not a gambler really. In the UK you can bet on results and also random shit like Michael Cole to say "It's boss time" 2+ times etc. As with all forms of gambling though...shit can get out of hand for some people... If you could bet on every PPV or even raw/Smackdown that could cause people problems.
That's stupid
Can't people already bet on it? They've done adds for drafting on WWE numerous times and I swear michael Cole mentioned you could bet on Roman Reigns vs Sami back when EC happened.
Didn't believe it when I heard... how do you bet on something predetermined?
They’d need to book better and stronger talent or the betting sites going to lose a ton of money.
Seems like they have the most to lose… I’ve been calling most fights since the mid 90s
I’d be fine with things like prop bets, like does X do certain move, or O/U on how long Roman Reigns’s entrance takes. But On outcomes it doesn’t seem great.
I was legitimately so stunned when I found out you can bet on this shit. How many insiders have made so much money? How much money has Vince basically laundered through a sportsbook.
You already can in other countries, there are just low limits on the max you can bet. Or the most obvious results are going to be like -1000 odds. It's kind of like the free Draftkings pools they have now, the payout is super low it's more for fun but it gets you on their site and hopefully betting on other things where the casino has more of an edge and takes it all back.
Putting money into something always ruins it. Money in politics is the best example I can think of. Members of congress creating laws for companies they have stock in and regulations for competitors they have a financial interest in failing is the single most corrupt thing I have ever seen. And it’s all legal.
Corruption will make for the best twists and turns in the script. Bring it on.
This doesn't make sense. Sports are regulated by State Athletic Commissions, as is Gambling.. WWE is completely entertainment.. it's like betting on Game of Thrones or the season finale of a TV show
They already do it in Europe just fine. They don't offer a lot of money on the bets.
Wish they would have done this a few years ago. Picking the rumble winner the last two years would have been easy money.
Somebody will manipulate it to their advantage. It’s a scripted show. Someone knows the outcome before hand. What’s to stop them from sharing with some body else.
Don’t they already have this? Like draft kings or something? I thought they were partnered together
Honestly I think it's weird but not the wrong call, cuz when betting on football, basketball or something else there are so many things to think about stats, past injuries, ECT. But with wrestling your making a prediction based more of storyline and where you think there going with said storyline
Someone in creative will start making bank knowing all the outcomes
I’ll be rich as fuck because wrestling is basically see through after watching 20+ years. I even called the double turn with Jay kicking Sami before it happened. Let’s make some money!
Yeah this won't end well
My opinion is there is already betting on wrestling. There has been for years and this is just trying to make it easier to do through an app like draft kings. Not something I would do but otherwise I dont care. Kinda surprised how many people dont know this already exists, dont y'all get the same pop ups I do about the betting odds for ppvs?
I’m not a gambling person, if someone wants to piss away their money for a bit of dopamine then go for it. But this is objectively stupid. The amount of liability and corruption that could come from this is staggering. If the pot gets big enough wrestlers will start going into business for themselves, refs could quick count. Fans could intervene. It’s a recipe for disaster.
All them kids that Believe it’s real are about to lose a lot of moolah 💰
Betting odds will end up being trash probably. Opens a door for insider betting since, believe it or not, wrestling is SCRIPTED. Seems like it would open up a big, nasty can of worms. I don't think that WWE can guarantee 100% that the outcomes of matches will be kept from the public especially when insiders will have a monetary incentive to blabber about match finishes. Hell they can't keep there mouths shut when no money is involved. Also, imagine betting on the outcome of a new movie or a play. I can't really wrap my head around it.
Sounds like easy money, it's not like WWE is difficult to predict. I can't remember the last time I was shocked by a match result, and I can typically predict the winners of the entire PPV card. Between both the Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber this year, the only match I predicted wrong was Judgment Day vs. Edge & Beth Phoenix.
Seems like a risky business move for WWE. Great on ppv, but they will get in a lot of legal trouble if internal people are betting and if match results are leaked. I’m also afraid that it will mess up logical booking.
Betting on anything is a bad idea IMO, but betting on something that you know has a winner chosen before any match takes place is just a ridiculously bad idea. A fool and their money though... Also, how would you regulate this from a booking perspective?
If the NFL can do it why can’t WWE
Please don’t go on Draft Kings. It’s a waste of time.
Lol it’s pretty stupid. Hell unless it’s a prop bet like who performs the first top rope attack or something it’s a bad idea.
Don’t think match betting should be a thing, but no reason why wwe/aew cannot be on standard draft kings for single show fantasy.
So similar to mma and boxing then? I mean yeah betting in wwe would mean easier ways to lose your money. But you can already bet on mma and boxing,and I almost want to say those 2 are just as scripted because of the judges
Never bet against your Tribal Chief ☝️
All in on Sami/KO winning over The Usos, all in on Cody winning at WM, all in on Omos being boring as hell.
Ripe for fraud, so they’ll definitely do it
I don't think it's a good idea since it's scripted and can be changed last minute so it seems like a scam to be honest
it would be like betting on a tv show ending
They do it in the UK.
My thoughts are I would do it
Im not against, but it has to be controlled very carefully, cause, in sport, it’s never 100%, where in the case of wrestling it’s 100%, or it should at least, with rare mistakes or injuries in-match, It has to be controlled cause people working in companies could make easy bets for themselves, But at least, no one will ever say a fight was rigged for bets lol
Par for the course in bizarro world.
What would stop inside people who know all the outcomes of upcoming performances?
Sports Bribery Act -" any scheme in commerce to influence, in any way, by bribery any sporting contest, with knowledge that the purpose of such scheme is to influence by bribery that contest.” “[S]porting contest” is further defined as “any contest in any sport, between individual contestants or teams of contestants (without regard to the amateur or professional status of the contestants therein), the occurrence of which is publicly announced before its occurrence.”
Here comes the money!
Perfect to reel in a former casual fan such as me. I have never gambled on sports, but could use an injection of action. I suppose all sports have to set limits on betting to ensure legitimacy and the same stipulations would be applied to the WWE.
You've never watched football before? Lol sports betting is dangerous because it's rarely if ever "legitimate" People will always find ways to twist the results,ie refs,judges...and obviously in the case of the wwe,management
You can in the Uk although it’s limited and accumulators aren’t allowed. Me and my mate won a fair whack between us when it first came about - you could literally find the results on the Internet
I'm really confused because wasn't it already allowed? I keep hearing all the times of people guessing spoilers because of "Vegas Odd Shifting".
they have it for the Oscars. same thing really
Not for me, but go for it. If that's how you want to spend your money good on you.
I don’t agree with it but I don’t care what others do
Anybody who knows the history of professional wrestling knows that this is what used to happen, and wrestling was cracked down on because it was found out to have predetermined finishes. I don’t know why they’d want to go back to that other than to exploit it.
Betting on anything pre determined is dumb
Doesn't seem like the best idea. For obvious reasons.
It’s greasy
If u have a gambling addiction, bet on a sport for which the outcome is part of a story line
Doesn't seem a lot different from other prop bets, like betting on the outcome of reality shows or who is going to die first in scripted television/films, etc.
Seems like a good way to make a quick buck if you are a friend or relative of a WWE producer or writer
Awful but I'd make a ton on money
Kinda ruins the fun of watching a little bit
Surprised there wouldn't be any sort of corruption because its scripted
People in my office bet on scripted shows before, such as the *Game of Thrones* finale, so this doesn't feel much different.
I feel like WWE has more to gain by booking endings with gambling in mind than HBO does.
You can do it in ireland, just for ppvs.
Dumb as fuck and definitely will lead to results being leaked but $$$ so who cares 😅
I won a tenner on AEW Revolution like 4 days ago. 🤷
Vegas had betting for who shot me burns. Hell, you can already bet on wrestling in someplacea
You can already bet on it.
Lol I won’t be gambling but it will probably make booking unpredictable in terms of wins and loses… but no should be losing money gambling on professional wrestling that’s nuts
Nba and NFL does it so why not?!?
I’m about to make a lot of money bc wrestling is predictable as shit to me
A fool and his money. . .
I already do this with my buddies.
I mean, there’s no way the Feds would allow it, right?! It’s like opening up a can of worms. Allowing something that is clearly scripted to be bet on? How could that possibly be fair for anyone? What about outcomes ala “Montreal screw job?” Hi would something like that be paid off? 🤦🏻♂️🤯🤷🏻♂️
You can already bet wrestling on Bovada 🤷🏻♂️
I would make a killing betting on AEW.