Ambrose Betting Ahead Of 'The Shield's Final Chapter'

We're a few hours away from a match on the WWE Network which is being billed as 'The Shield's Final Chapter'. It'll see Jonathan Good make his final appearance as Dean Ambrose for the time being at least.

With the match taking place tonight, and Good seemingly done with WWE afterwards, I thought I'd publish an update about a betting market that Kambi had priced up in the middle of last month.

It was a prop market offering customers the opportunity to wager on Jonathan Good's next match 'After 23:59 US Pacific Time of May 1 2019'. The options were 'World Wrestling Entertainment' and 'Any Unlisted Promotion'.

'World Wrestling Entertainment' opened at 13/10 while the other selection was a 13/25 favourite on March 15th. By the following day, the WWE selection was cut to 5/4 while its opposition was moved out to 11/20.

From there, the 'Any Unlisted Promotion' selection slid as it went from the aforementioned 11/20 back into 13/25 by March 20th. It was then lowered to 2/5 around March 26th before lowering once more to 1/3.

When the market was last made available - on the night of WrestleMania 35 - 'Any Unlisted Promotion' had moved up to 11/25.

The 'World Wrestling Entertainment' selection was evidently the outsider throughout despite its odds shortening on two occasions - right at the start and near the end.

You can view how I tracked the adjustments by clicking on the table below.

For what it's worth, and as I wrote on March 15th, I backed 'World Wrestling Entertainment'. I felt that he would remain with WWE because the company telling media and the fans that Good was leaving was uncharacteristic and I thought it was worth a gamble in case it was leading to an angle of some kind.

On Sunday morning's edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that people he has spoken with seem to think that Good is taking a break from the business rather than go elsewhere and they are hopeful that he'll come back eventually. 

The word 'Retirement' was brought up in the segment of the podcast which covered the Ambrose/Good story, but Meltzer stressed that it was a strong word to use here.

If this is the case, it might be a while until any bets on the market are graded.

Watch The Shield's Last Chapter on the WWE Network