The number one contender's odds had been on a steep descent this evening after starting off the day at 5/2. As of 8:40pm BST, he has moved into 3/10.
With Mahal now entering favouritism, WWE Champion - Randy Orton - is now out at 11/5. When the market was opened two days ago, he was as short as 1/6.
Date/Time
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Randy Orton
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Jinder Mahal
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17/5 3:30pm
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1/6
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7/2
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10:30pm
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"
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"
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18/5 3:30pm
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"
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"
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11:30pm
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"
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"
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19/5 11:15am
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1/4
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5/2
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8:15pm
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4/11
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15/8
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8:20pm
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4/7
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5/4
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8:40pm
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11/5
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3/10
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Odds taken from Paddy Power's WWE Betting Page
The oddest thing about all this is that there was just a news report I believe yesterday talking about how Vince is currently very high on Orton, basically adored how he sold for Brock at SS, and was his personal pick to win the Rumble. The article also stated that Vince thinks of Orton the same way he does Roman on RAW and he will be keeping the strap on him for quite a while.
ReplyDeleteSo reading all of that, seeing Jinder become a favorite here is quite shocking. Unless something happened behind the scenes that we don't know about, this should definitely be considered a surprising development.