The New Days' win over The Revival - in the WWE Smackdown Tag Team Championship match at Tables, Ladders and Chairs 2019 - was given the most stars in Dave Meltzer's review of the event.
The match was given three-and-three-quarter stars in the report which was published in the current issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Now that we know the results from Dave Meltzer's opinion of the matches, Kambi will eventually settle the remaining TLC 2019 markets from last weekend.
The first will be the market in which customers could have placed wagers on what they believed would end up being the 'Highest Rated Match' on the card.
When it was first opened, the eventual winner was a joint 6/4 favourite along with the Women's Tag Team Championship match which ended up being the main event.
Both selections were increased to 7/4 after the 'Aleister Black .vs. Buddy Murphy' selection was backed from 3/1 into 43/20.
Black .vs. Murphy did come close, however. That match was given three-and-a-half stars from the reporter.
With three-and-three-quarters being handed out to the highest rated match on the card, a market in which customers could have gambled on the 'Exact Star Rating' of the highest rated bout on last Sunday's card will be graded with 'Under 4.0 Stars' the winning selection.
As you'll be able to see below, the selection started out at 19/20 when the market was initially priced up. However, by Sunday evening, it had drifted out to 11/10 after its two opposing selections - 'Over 4 Stars' and 'Exactly 4 Stars' - had their respective prices trimmed by the bookmaker.
The match of the night also found itself competing against the Women's Tag Team Championship match in a head-to-head special.
In the head-to-head, customers were able to bet on which of the two bouts would receive the most stars in Meltzer's review.
The eventual winning selection was 23/20 for the entire time the market was available. The women's match was offered as a 4/5 favourite while the selection that covered a potential tie was 11/5,
As noted above, Aleister Black's victory over Buddy Murphy was the second best match of the night with a rating of three-and-a-half stars. This bout was available in another head-to-head from the betting service.
It won against the Roman Reigns .vs. King Corbin TLC match.
The winning selection started out at 17/20, but had its price shortened into 4/6 on the evening of the event.
Reigns .vs. Corbin was given one-and-three-quarter stars from Meltzer.
Kambi will also settle the Over/Under markets that were released for the PPV. Here's how I expect most of them to be graded.
I've written 'See Below' in the result category for the Bray Wyatt .vs. The Miz dud because Kambi recently graded Tyson Fury .vs. Braun Strowman, from WWE Crown Jewel 2019, a dud and voided the Over/Under bets on the match. I felt it was graded unfairly for those who may have backed the 'Under 1.5 Stars' as a dud is in the no man's land between a quarter of a star and the minuses.
In layman's terms, it's zero.
In the case of Sunday's Wyatt .vs. The Miz match, I feel the correct result should be 'Under 1.50 Stars' but I cannot record it as an Under knowing that DUDs have been voided in the not so distant past.
The dud match appeared in Kambi's third head-to-head for the PPV.
It was up against the Rusev .vs. Bobby Lashley match which received one-and-a-half stars.
I had a wager on Wyatt .vs. The Miz to be the winning bout of this matchbet, so this should be a losing bet as Rusev .vs. Lashley did better than the DUD for Wyatt/Miz.
A couple of prop bets will also be settled now that the issue has been published.
Both with be settled with 'No' as the winning selections.
The first proposition - titled 'Joint Winners' - asked customers whether or not there would be two or more matches tying for best match on the card honours while the second asked whether the last match on the card would be the bout that Meltzer gave the most stars to.
The winning selections were 4/11 and 11/25 respectively.
New Day .vs. The Revival did not share the highest rated match with any other match on the card neither was it the last match on the card.
I'll be back with one of these Observer look back posts in the new year as there are star ratings markets available for NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom 14 shows on January 4th and 5th.
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