Saturday Was The Day

Now that the WrestleMania betting storm is over, I think it's safe to conclude that Saturday was the day when the smart money landed on the WrestleMania 32 results.

At the time, I was reluctant to run with the idea that what we were seeing was smart movement because I felt it was too early.

It evidently wasn't.

Even though things started changing at around mid afternoon, the time I am concentrating on more is between the hours of 5pm and 7pm BST because it more or less gives us strong shifts to back up the case I am making.

Here's what we witnessed between those hours:

The Undertaker from -320 to -1,200
Brock Lesnar from -230 to -1,500
Roman Reigns from -460 to -1,500
Charlotte from -150 to -350 (not much, I know!)
The Usos -560 to -1,500
Chris Jericho -210 to -1,200
Zack Ryder from +350 to -350

We also had slight moves on:

Kalisto -230 to -270
League of Nations -105 to -120

The market that is intriguing is the Total Divas versus Team BAD & Blonde. At the highlighted period, the heels went from -300 to -1,500. I can only surmise that they were originally scheduled to win and a change was made later that day as, between 7pm and 11pm, the team of the Total Divas cast had dropped from +700 to -185. They were -475 at 5:30am BST the following day.

Another tell that I noted in one of my posts on Saturday, and should have given away that we were potentially witnessing smart movements, was the fact that the battle royal wrestler markets weren't being backed. 'The Field .vs. the favourite (Strowman)' was bet. Possibly by people who knew that he was not winning.

As we now know, the eventual winner - Baron Corbin - was not listed, so the customers had no reason to wager there.

I don't know if it was a one-off because of how busy they must be that weekend, but it'll be something to watch out for in future.