Absolutely not! If a bookie were to write odds on who was favored to get a decision they wouldn't write it out as 5/1 against. When a bookie writes an odd, its always "for" not "against". 5/1 Canelo means you have to lay down $500 to win $100 As I mentioned earlier, I don't know where Gennady got those odds but he posted them as 5/1 Canelo and 1/3 Golovkin, which all things considering, even if the Casino's thought Golovkin won they factor in the viability of Canelo being the Cash cow and highly consider that corruption is part of decisions in boxing. 5/1 Canelo means the bookies were highly confident Canelo would be announced the winner.
Nope 5/1 is you put on 100 to win 500 even if it doesn't look rightright is how the bookies write it, 1/5 would be 500 to win 100. Or at least it is in the UK.
You are absolutely in the wrong here. I'm assuming you're American and aren't accustomed to euro odds but you have got things all back to front. I was on Betfair during the time between the bell and the scorecards and Canelo was as high as 7-1, believe it or not.
Thanks Those who are making the live odds are experts, and they saw what 80% of the boxing world saw, Canelo got outlanded.
Nope you're wrong. 5/1 means you're getting 5 dollars for putting down 1 dollar. 1/5 odds you're getting a dollar for putting down 5.
i said this before in the RBR thread. Whoever u think won the scrap, those odds from the bookies all around the world should tell you everything you need to know. like it or not.
You are just flat out wrong. I will leave this here for you to educate yourself on how odds work. https://www.oddsshark.com/tools/odds-calculator
Wrong. 5/1 means you get 5 for every 1 you stake plus your initial stake. For example $1 at 5/1 would win you $5 plus your initial $1. 1/5 would describe what you're referring to wherein a $5 would see you win $1 plus get you your initial $5 back. Source: I'm the son of a bookie.
The thing you guys need to realize that 5/1 doesn't mean something is impossible. According to the bookies, it was unlikely for Canelo to get the nod on the cards. But not impossible. This reminds me of the people who deride political polls because they got the "2016 election so spectacularly wrong". No, they didn't get anything wrong. They said Democrats were the favorites to win, doesn't mean the opposite outcome is entirely impossible.
The point the OP is making though is the sports analysts who evaluate fights for in play betting thought the fight would go to Golovkin. For whatever reason they thought him getting the nod was unlikely but obviously forgot who we're talking about here.
Ok again, "unlikely" doesn't meant impossible. If the weather forecast says there's a 20% chance of rain for tomorrow and then it rains. was the weather forecast wrong? Was the weather rigged? Low-probability events do happen. Very low-pro probability events happen, too. Our planet gets his by a Mt. Fuji sized asteroid every 100 million years. It happens.
Low probability events aren't usually linked to human opinions. And the bookies weren't saying it was impossible but clearly they thought Golovkin was the most likely winner. The OP is just adding them to the list of people who expected Golovkin's hand to be raised at the end. Your meteor analogy is also pretty poor IMO.