 Kimbo
Slice Frank Mercer Fight May Shatter Betting Records
Heading into Saturday
night's Cage Fury Fighting Championship 5,
Sports911.com is predicting that the Kimbo Slice
Frank Mercer MMA bout may become the most bet on
Mixed Martial Arts event outside of UFC 71, and even
that may get a run for its money.
"People are really
excited about this fight," notes Payton O'Brien,
Senior Editor for Sports911.com, who has been
analyzing traffic numbers all week in anticipation.
"Kimbo Slice Frank Mercer searches are right up
there with the battle between
Chuck
Liddell and Quinton Jackson.
That matchup brought in tons
of traffic throughout the weekend to the Sports911
website."
Sports911.com
provides its readers with the very safest
environment in which to place bets, referring MMA
fans to those companies that have been in business
for a number of years. The average
Sports911.com endorsed
online sports betting company has been in
business for over 10 years.
"For Cage Fury
Fighting Championship 5 we are mostly pushing our
readers towards
Online Sportsbetting at
Bookmaker.com as one of the most regarded
online sports betting sites around and the first
established offshore catering to the North American
marketplace in 1985."
With Mixed Martial
Arts exploding popularity, more and more online
gambling establishments are offering a vast menu of
betting on MMA events. Bookmaker.com features
odds on nearly every Mixed Martial Arts venue, no
matter how small. Most incorporate a $500
maximum betting limit.
Casual gamblers and first
timers only need to deposit $5 to $10 depending on
the method used.
"This is going to
be a big one and should translate into a good week
for Bookmaker.com in terms of betting volume based
on our own analysis of interest related to CFF5,"
O'Brien fearlessly predicted.
Kimbo Slice was
listed with odds of -205 heading into Saturday
night's main event that also included
betting on the Ultimate
Fighter 5 finale.
Ray Mercer was listed with odds of +165. The
Kimbo Slice Frank Mercer fight did not impose a $500
maximum, thus allowing for professional sports
bettors to place wagers up to Bookmaker.com's
regular limit of $5000.
"Cage Fury Fighting
Championship 5 is gaining a lot of momentum as a
result of its mending the MMA and boxing world
together," says O'Brien. "Frank Mercer is the
World Boxing Organization Champion and Kimbo Slice
has become an street fighting Internet legend."
Some fighters on
the boxing side have taken jabs at Mixed Martial
Arts in recent months.
Cage Fury Fighting
Championships (CFFC) is an American mixed martial
arts (MMA) promotion. Founded by Felix & Amy
Martinez, the promotion regularly promotes in
Atlantic City, NJ, having just completed its fourth
event. CFFC is a fast growing organization, and has
featured many Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
veterans, including fight commentator Dan Severn, as
well as appearances by Evan Tanner, Frank Shamrock
and Tito Ortiz. It's current Heavyweight champion,
Carmelo Marrero, currently appears in the UFC.
---
Tyrone Black,
Sports911.com
Originally
published June 23, 2007 11:51 pm ET
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