Following The Money in Mayweather-McGregor

(SPONSORED CONTENT) -- Spectacles have a way of drawing the biggest crowds. When the circus finally arrives in town at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the entire world will be watching to see if Conor McGregor can do the impossible and hand Floyd Mayweather his first career loss.

The smart money seems to be careening in on Mayweather in ways that we’ve never seen before. Sportsbooks in Las Vegas are taking in $1 million bets on Mayweather’s side of the line, which should cause seismic shifts in the numbers. But a huge cavalcade of McGregor’s supporter’s are keeping things relatively steady.

Betonline.ag themselves have moved the line by a decent amount, with Mayweather favored at -505 while McGregor settles in at +390 for now. A lot is going to happen over the next 24-hours to shift those numbers. Trust us on that one.

Let’s rewind this back to when the idea of this fight was first announced sportsbooks were speculating fight lines with Mayweather at odds of -2500 with McGregor a distant underdog with +1000 value or much, much higher.

But as McGregor has a habit of doing, he created a storm that the oddmakers couldn’t ignore. Public money may not have the weight of a single, $1 million wager like the one laid down at MGM Grand this week, but they have a habit of adding up. The draw of Conor McGregor is like nothing oddsmakers have ever seen in the history of boxing or MMA.

Let’s remember that Mayweather as a standalone threat is only worth so much in pay-per-view buys. His last fight with Andre Berto barely scraped a half-million in buy rate. BetOnline.ag has projected that the McGregor-Mayweather superfight will earn more than 5 million pay-per-view buys by setting the OVER at -125 versus an UNDER of -105, meaning that the former is more likely to happen.

The gravity of McGregor alone is enough to drive an oddsmaker absolutely insane because the volume of action on this fight is enormous. Many are projecting that this fight to set a new record for handle on a fight, and a lot of people are just throwing money at McGregor to get action on an underdog. That’s typical gambling behavior.

Essentially, the behavior of the money coming in through BetOnline.ag, other sportsbooks and in Las Vegas is nothing out of the ordinary. We all expected the smart money to be on Mayweather, and the public money to back McGregor. What a lot of us didn’t expect was the sheer volume of money coming in.

Sportsbooks have taken hits before all over the world. The Clemson Tigers beating the Alabama Crimson Tide in the NCAAF championship game was a gut punch that the oddsmakers didn’t see coming. Same goes for the Denver Broncos losing to the Seattle Seahawks at Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. Almost everyone was riding Peyton Manning delivering the win with the best offence of all time.

Las Vegas is bracing for impact because McGregor has done so much to stir a frantic whirlwind out of thin air. He has people coming in droves to bet on a boxing fight for the first time in their lives. Everyone is talking about this as if it’s the best thing to ever happen to sports, or the worst possible outcome for boxing. The whole thing is incredible to see unfold.

Floyd Mayweather may not be scared of Conor McGregor but the sportsbooks are definitely trembling.

BetOnline.ag will keep the massive prop market up for McGregor-Mayweather up as long as possible, with the live fight lines moving as action comes in! Sign-up now to be part of history!