P Diddy may be backing Floyd Mayweather over Manny Pacquiao, but the Internal Revenue Services will likely be the real winner of the expected heavy gambling on Saturday’s fight in Las Vegas.
Bookmakers are predicting brisk betting on this weekend’s fight, perhaps even enough to topple the current $119 million record for the bets placed on the 2014 Super Bowl. But even outside the Las Vegas casinos, people are getting into the spirit. Last week P Diddy bet actor Mark Wahlberg $250,000 that Mayweather would take the night.