No Mercy 2017 Star Ratings Markets That Don't Appear To Exist

In yesterday's edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer wrote about a sports betting website that was accepting over/under wagers on his star ratings. As most of the visitors to WWELeaks.org should guess, I was immediately intrigued so went onto the website that the article mentioned just so I could write about them.

The website in question is SportsBettingExperts.com. Upon landing on the page, I immediately knew that this wasn't a sportsbook, so browsed through the content to find an article that covered the star ratings over and under markets just so I could work out which betting agency is taking these prop bets.

What I found was a write-up by an author named Jim Murphy whose brief bio claims has written about sports betting for 'more than 25 years'. He published a list of match and proposition odds for the event, but there was one conspicuous absence.

The writer didn't state WHERE the odds could be found. This raised a flag to me because, as a writer of twenty-five years, he should know about the 5 Ws (Who, What, Where, When, Why). Not having this in the article made me delve deeper into the website in question.

After looking around at how it reports its betting news, based on my own judgement, I strongly believe that the site - and its news articles - exists solely to get mainstream news websites to link back to it in the hope that readers head over to the website to read the articles and then join the sports betting firms that are advertised on the site. The No Mercy article includes adverts for Bet365 (doesn't publish WWE odds), Bodog (Rarely publishes WWE odds), William Hill (Doesn't publish Observer markets) and MyBookie (Doesn't publish Observer specials and hasn't published No Mercy odds).

It isn't only the WWE articles. Every other article I sampled didn't tell the reader where these odds could be found.

The entire gambling affiliate industry is being scrutinized by the Adertising Standards Agency and Gambling Commission. If I am correct about the website, this sort of behaviour doesn't fly with me because there are genuine people who cover real betting news that are being mixed in the same bag as those who are making things up.

As I've covered here at WWELeaks, there have been star ratings markets published for No Mercy. However, as of the time of writing, there have only been two markets priced up. They were for Universal Championship and Roman Reigns versus John Cena matches. Both were available by the Kambi oddsmakers.

On the topic of the Kambi oddsmakers, a few of their markets were also copied for the article in question. For example, the Brock Lesnar specials where customers can bet on the number of suplexes that were published. 

I have contacted the website twice since I became aware of the article. I've asked for confirmation on where I can find these No Mercy specials. Both emails have been unanswered as of the time of writing.

I would like somebody to prove me wrong about the existence of these markets, but I don't think I am.

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