Tonight's episode of AEW Dynamite will kick off with a battle royal. Its winner will then meet Jon Moxley in the main event of the show to determine who will represent AEW in the title decider at the June 26th Forbidden Door PPV - a show jointly promoted by AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling.
The market initially had 'Jon Moxley' as a 2/7 favourite when I first stumbled upon it on Monday night. By yesterday evening, despite still being favoured, Moxley had moved up to 11/25.
The option to bet on the 'Battle Royal Winner' going over in tonight's main event is currently at 8/5. This is in from 9/4.
As noted, the winner will represent AEW against talent from NJPW in the title decider at Forbidden Door.
On Sunday, at NJPW Dominion, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Hirooki Goto will face off to determine who will battle tonight's winner on June 26th.
Kambi's oddsmakers have priced up a market for that match as well.
Tanahashi, who was originally scheduled to wrestle CM Punk at Forbidden Door, has been backed from 2/13 into 1/14 while Goto has been pushed out from 7/2 to 11/2.
On Sunday afternoon, I published a post about the market Kambi has published which allows customers to gamble on who they think will be interim titleholder coming out of Forbidden Door.
The market has been adjusted across those days. The names of note are the two NJPW wrestlers with Tanahashi moving in from Sunday's 5/1 into 19/10 and Goto sliding in from 50/1 into 10/1.
As I wrote on Sunday, even though I think the chance of Goto winning on Sunday - let alone becoming AEW Interim World Champion later this month - is somewhat of a longshot, I thought that 50/1 was far too heavy a price not to place a small wager on the prospect.
One thing which makes me unsure about Tanahashi winning the title is because the G1 Climax is coming up and he may be one of the participants in that thus leaving AEW without a world champion - albeit an interim one - for over a month. Having Tanahashi as an interim champ negates the reason why this title has been introduced - to have someone carry the load while Punk is on the mend.
Kambi lists AEW as the favourite in its market which asks its customers which 'brand' will be in control of the AEW Interim World Championship at the conclusion of Forbidden Door.
'AEW' started out at 1/8, but has risen to 7/20 following 'NJPW' being backed from 4/1 into 19/10.
For transparency, and to - in a way - contradict what I wrote about the G1 coming up, I had a small punt on the 4/1 because I liked the price.
There is a proposition market available which asks customers whether or not the winner beats CM Punk for the unified title whenever they get to meet up.
For the prop bets to stand, the Interim Champion and CM Punk would have to wrestle each other before the end of this year.
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