{"id":278984,"date":"2018-06-20T14:13:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T21:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=278984"},"modified":"2018-06-20T14:13:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T21:13:22","slug":"oddsmaker-says-floyd-mayweather-could-be-100-1-betting-favorite-in-potential-gsp-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/oddsmaker-says-floyd-mayweather-could-be-100-1-betting-favorite-in-potential-gsp-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Oddsmaker says Floyd Mayweather could be 100-1 betting favorite in potential GSP fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tristar head coach <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/firas-zahabi-wants-georges-st-pierre-to-box-floyd-mayweather\/\">Firas Zahabi is hoping<\/a> that his star pupil, Georges St-Pierre, will follow in the footsteps of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a> and battle undefeated boxing legend Floyd Mayweather in the boxing ring.\u00a0In the opinion of veteran combat sports oddsmaker Joey Oddessa, however, there&#8217;s almost no point in making this fight \u2014 at least, not from a competitive vantage point. He believes St-Pierre would have no chance in a boxing bout with Mayweather, and the betting line for the potential fight would reflect this reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are three certainties in life: Death, taxes, and\u00a0Floyd Mayweather\u00a0will not lose to any MMA fighter or boxer in a boxing ring over the duration of his lifetime,&#8221; Oddessa told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/06\/floyd-mayweather-georges-st-pierre-boxing-odds-mma-oddsmaker-joey-oddessa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie<\/a> of this potential boxing match, which will almost certainly never happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFloyd could easily be a -10,000 (100-to-1) favorite, and that would be giving anyone with big money the closest thing to a sure thing for a short term 1 percent return on investment,\u201d Oddessa added. \u201cThe -10,000 line should be high enough to put the majority of casual players on St-Pierre \u2013 those same casual players who found enough value on Conor McGregor to upset Floyd and drove the price from an average of -2,500 all the way down to -400.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While this oddsmaker doesn&#8217;t believe Georges St-Pierre would have a snowball&#8217;s chance in hell against Floyd Mayweather, Zahabi feels his fighter could pull it off. At the very least, he believes St-Pierre would have some advantages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ll fight at a catchweight,\u201d Zahabi said, clarifying on the logistics of his dream fight. \u201cDo you think Mayweather is worried that he\u2019s going to be concussed? He\u2019s fought all the top punchers in the world. He\u2019s just going to have to worry about Georges\u2019 volume and reach, but he can handle himself, and Georges can handle himself. But the whole world is going to tune into that one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Georges St-Pierre would have any chance in a boxing match with Floyd Mayweather?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 6\/20\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tristar head coach Firas Zahabi is hoping that his star pupil, Georges St-Pierre, will follow in the footsteps of Conor McGregor and battle undefeated boxing legend Floyd Mayweather in the boxing ring.\u00a0In the opinion of veteran combat sports oddsmaker Joey Oddessa, however, there&#8217;s almost no point in making this fight \u2014 at least, not from 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