Bookies will lose millions if McGregor knocks out Mayweather
Conor McGregor is making a lot of wise guys nervous in this gambling city. Should he somehow manage to knock out Floyd Mayweather Jr . in the early rounds Saturday night , the city's bookmakers would lose millions of dollars in the biggest single event loss in the history of sports betting . McGregor fans have flooded sports books with $100 bills backing the mixed martial arts fighter , and even a late surge of money on Mayweather might not be enough to balance the books. "I'm OK now," said William Hill oddsmaker Nick Bogdanovich . "But you might want to have a heart monitor on me when the bell rings and Conor starts throwing wild lefts ." Bogdanovich said his chain of sports books will suffer multimillion dollar losses — their worst ever — should McGregor win the fight in any fashion. If he wins early as he has promised, the losses would be even worse. The big bettors are putting their money on Mayweather, who is 49-0 as a pro. But so many McGregor fans...