Lesnar wins on points.

A weird night of fights.

Around 4am and 4:30am GMT respectively.

Other than the off-chance of Lesnar getting KOed by Mark Hunt? No.

Do feel that Brock will emulate his win over Frank Mir back in UFC 100 unfortunately and just swarm over Mark Hunt with a similarly styled 'bull rush, knock 'em to the ground and then rapid punch 'em until the referee steps in' TKO win. Interesting that Brock chose Hunt but handpicking your opponents doesn't mean a thing...Jake Matthews picked Kevin Lee and got KTFO for his trouble yesterday.

Am not betting on it though but will be rooting for Hunt to beat Lesnar. Come on, Mark!

Wouldn't have bet on Michael Bisping to win the middleweight title with stolen money let alone by a first round KO of Luke Rockhold but the 'unthinkable' has happened. Well done to the believers...Great Britain finally has a UFC champion.

Huh. I do love some of these novelty markets that Betfair come up with even if some of the markets are absolutely hopeless, wretched and of little value...I'm assuming these markets are courtesy of the imaginative traders who transferred over from Blue Square.

"Who will the winning fighter thank first?"

4/7 God
7/2 Fans
3/1 Family member/s
7/1 Opponent
50/1 Barack Obama
50/1 PED's

[0920: Bodog]

Today's Bettingzone Market News:

0920: Bodog have paid out on Sir Steve Redgrave as the winner of the Who Will Light The Olympic Flame market that kept punters up past midnight.

A group of seven young athletes were given the final honour of lighting the ceremonial flame in the Olympic Stadium, but the firm felt such a result shouldn't represent a winner for them.

"As it turned out that result would have been a total skinner for us but as Redgrave was clearly the last of our quoted runners to carry the torch we've made the call to pay out on him," said the firm's Nick Gray.

Redgrave was a 6/4 chance with the firm yesterday afternoon, and traded as short as 1/4 to light the flame with Bodog as Danny Boyle's spectacular opening ceremony got underway.

Sky Bet, William Hill and Betfred meanwhile have decided to refund all bets, while Paddy Power claim to have paid out on seven winners although it's unclear who those seven are.

Stan James are paying out on the seven who lit actually lit the flame while voiding all other bets (!?).

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Not quite but Stan James are following Ladbrokes' lead in paying out on the 'ambassadors'. https://twitter.com/roryjiwani/status/229129158607900672

I've no idea if Ladbrokes and Stan James are paying out on full odds or 'one seventh' of the odds though.

David Williams says Ladbrokes will pay out on the seven nominators.

https://twitter.com/magicsignman/status/229000613248245761

Deana is now the favourite:

Click to see full-size image.

Shievonne. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s149/big-brother/news/a393320/shievonne-robinson-evicted-from-big-brother.html

It's Aaron vs. Chris. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s149/big-brother/news/a386588/big-brother-this-weeks-nominations-results-revealed.html

No odds yet but I'd imagine Chris must be a slight favourite to go if females are voting.

...of the three potential wildcards, Becky somehow won. Over the thirteen years, I don't think Endemol have ever given a more unflattering profile shot than to Becky. It's just a fairly scary photo.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s149/big-brother/news/a386222/becky-hannon-enters-big-brother-house-as-wildcard-choice.html

If she isn't named as any of the others' 'favourite housemates', Becky will be up for eviction.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s149/big-brother/news/a386289/big-brother-deana-lauren-and-benedict-accuse-becky-of-being-a-mole.html

She's also somehow become the favourite to win it as well. A popular entrance & the strength of winning the wildcard so they think she has some sort of fanbase, I presume? The six heading the market are Becky/Rebecca, Luke A, Shievonne, Benedict, Caroline and Sara.

http://www.oddschecker.com/specials/tv/big-brother/winner

I'm not surprised Victoria was eliminated but I am very annoyed that I didn't bet on her to go. Was it the weight of money or the weight of opinion that forced Lydia's odds to be so artificially low!?

Bwin spend so much money on advertising yet they baulk at a 200 Euros bet!? I was limited to 50 Euros but I don't think I've actually ever made a profit against 'em!

They are incredibly shady. Hope you get your money back, FUN4FRASER.

[ON]

Wouldn't have a clue sir tbh.

Aaron had public support the whole way last year and topped all the polls by a long way from an early stage. Despite that his price was erratic. Even when he was HU v turd-freezer he went odds-against just before the lines were closed.

We never saw anything like that in the CH4 days.

If there was a lesson to be learned from last year it's that we should be listening to the polls 100%. Whatever they throw up. If some random is top in the majority of them, just get on. Simple as that imo.

All three series of BB on Five have been 'funny' betting-wise.

* Jedward and Kerry Katona getting creamed by Paddy Doherty but only after he went into odds-on in the last week.
* Alex was actually a fairly strong favourite before Aaron beat her and Jay to a generally unpopular win. There were more than a few 'surprise' evictions along the way as well.
* Denise Welch won presumably because of the insane 'Loose Women' fanbase and she somehow survived to win ahead of Frankie Cocozza and Gareth Edwards.

http://www.metro.co.uk/tv/888694-denise-welch-wins-celebrity-big-brother-ahead-of-frankie-cocozza
http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/celebrity-big-brother/frankie-cocozza-and-denise-welch-favourites-to-win-celebrity-big-brother-2012/

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I assume someone's leaked the current vote results or something as Lydia is into 4/1 ON at Betfair to be gone tonight (she's 4/7 at Ladbrokes). Victoria's 2/1 at Ladbrokes and Conor's 16/1 at Sky Bet.

It's indeed a 'Vote to Save'. People hate Lydia so much that they'll tactically vote for Victoria to stay!?

There's even a slideshow of what the Deanery Street branch of Victor Chandler looks like. I didn't realise they had a doorman!

http://www.diamondprojects.com/Portfolio.aspx