Brock Lesnar will challenge Kofi Kingston for the WWE Championship on the first WWE Smackdown that will air on FOX.
The October 4th bout was set up on last night's episode of Smackdown.
Following The New Day's trios win against Randy Orton and The Revival, Lesnar - with Paul Heyman - confronted the WWE Champion and issued a challenge.
With the title bout now confirmed for the show, my focus is now on a betting market - published by Kambi earlier this year - which allowed customers to gamble on who would leave the debut episode on the new channel as WWE Champion.
As you can see in the table below, when the market was first installed, Kambi had Kingston at 25/1 to walk out of Los Angeles with the strap. Seeing as he was champion at the time the market was created, I thought 25/1 was being far too generous so placed a very small bet on Kofi.
The other potential WWE Champion coming out of the October 4th broadcast - Lesnar - was 7/2 on day one.
The market was adjusted on August 29th with Kofi Kingston a 23/20 favourite.
Lesnar's price fluctuated in the months that the market was available. This coincided with him becoming Money in the Bank winner and his brief stint as WWE Universal Championship. However, when the market was last seen - which was over a fortnight ago - customers could have found him at 5/1.
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