{"id":31898,"date":"2024-05-20T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T10:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=31898"},"modified":"2024-05-20T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T10:06:18","slug":"drake-loses-565000-after-betting-on-tyson-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/20\/drake-loses-565000-after-betting-on-tyson-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Loses $565,000 After Betting on Tyson Fury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Cynthia Abah<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Canadian rapper Drake has lost $565,000 after betting on Tyson Fury to defeat Oleksandr Usyk. This marks another significant gambling loss for the artist.<\/p>\n<p>Drake had revealed on Instagram prior to the fight that he wagered $565,000 on Fury. If Fury had won, Drake stood to collect over $1 million. However, Usyk emerged victorious by split decision in Saudi Arabia, becoming the first undisputed heavyweight boxing champion in 24 years. Usyk&#8217;s win added Fury&#8217;s WBC title to his existing WBA, IBF, and WBO belts.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Drake has faced substantial gambling losses. He previously lost a six-figure sum after betting on Anthony Joshua&#8217;s knockout win over Francis Ngannou, and another $700,000 after Dricus Du Plessis defeated Sean Strickland at UFC 297.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah Canadian rapper Drake has lost $565,000 after betting on Tyson Fury to defeat Oleksandr Usyk. This marks another significant gambling loss for the artist. Drake had revealed on Instagram prior to the fight that he wagered $565,000 on Fury. If Fury had won, Drake stood to collect over $1 million. However, Usyk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":31900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31901,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31898\/revisions\/31901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}