Manny Pacquiao Upset, Filipino Betting Favorite for Philippines Presidency
Manny Pacquiao could live through with(p) with pugilism after the 42-year-old — regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all clip — lost handily to 35-year-old Cuban challenger Yordenis Ugas.
Heading into lowest night’s pay-per-view spectacle held at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip, Pacquiao was the labored favourite at N of -400. That implies a winning chance of 80 percent. A $100 bet, should Pacquiao hold prevailed, would experience won just now $25.
Ugas was called inward to scrap only cobbler's last calendar week after 31-year-old Errol Spence Jr., the current unified welterweight world champ, was forced to move back after woe a retinal rupture in his left eye.
Ugas was a long underdog at to a greater extent than +300 at to the highest degree books. His stunning victory sack up $300 per $100 wagered. All three judges scored the struggle for Ugas inwards the unanimous decision.
“I’m very excited, but most of all, I need to give thanks Manny Pacquiao for gift me this instant in this knell today,” said Ugas (27-4, 12 KOs). “Now the contrive is to merge the title at welterweight,” Ugas stated. “Errol Spence is the next unity on the list.”
“I’m sorry i lost tonight, but i did my best,” stated Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39 KOs), potential apologizing to the vast bulk of fans inward attendance cheering him on, many of who also had activeness on him winning.
Pacman pondered his hereafter in wake of defeat.
I don’t know. I want to unbend and micturate a decision,” he explained.
Political Future
Manny Pacquiao is practically more than a pugilist inward his indigene Philippines. Along with existence a sports superstar, Manny has served the country as a senator of the Philippine Islands since 2016.
Pacman is a warm contender to replace controversial President Rodrigo Duterte. The Philippines elects presidents to a bingle six-year term. Duterte will live succeeded next year, the new leader scheduled to take the business office on June 30, 2022.
Online betting change PredictIt has Pacquiao with the second-best odds of winning the 2022 presidential election. His shares of decorous the 17th chairwoman of the Philippines are trading at 28 cents. However, that cost is downwardly considerably from 38 cents prior to his Ugas loss.
Duterte’s oldest daughter Sara Duterte-Carpio, a lawyer and pol who is currently the mayor of Davao City, the same role her begetter held before running for president, is the betting favorite. Mrs. Duterte-Carpio’s shares are trading at 41 cents, a price that has tardily declined o'er the yesteryear month from 53 cents.
Manila Casinos Reopen
The president of the Philippine Islands has the ultimate potency to dictate orders regarding health emergencies. And as of yesterday, Aug 21, Duterte allowed Metro capital of the Philippines to comfort restrictions past moving from an Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) to Modified ECQ (MECQ).
The in style(p) COVID-19 categorisation allows casino hotels in the majuscule city to reopen. But casinos must remain unsympathetic to the general public, special invited guests existence the exception.
Manila’s Entertainment City is where the absolute majority of the country’s receipts gaming revenue is generated. The Philippines’ gaming regulator revealed today that GGR from Manila’s quatern integrated resorts — City of Dreams, Solaire, Okada, and Resorts World — was down feather 30.5 percent inwards the secondly quarter of 2021.
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