There was a time not all that long ago when UFC betting odds were the laughing stock, or at the very least an odd duck when it came to wagering on sports.
In fact, UFC have come full circle since their unheralded debut and the future now looks incredibly bright for UFC betting odds.
UFC have been around since the early 1990s, although many UFC fans would never believe it. If you think about it, UFC odds have only been mainstream for less than a decade and never really came into the public spotlight of sports betting until probably five or six years ago. It might be difficult to imagine considering how popular the UFC have become, but for more than half of their existence, UFC betting odds have been something of an outcast.
When Dana White, the president of the UFC organization, first bought the franchise for $2 million dollars most people thought he was crazy, or at the very least an idiot. UFC revenues since then have proven them wrong, but at the time the UFC betting odds did seem something of a long shot.
At that time boxing was the top fighting sport in the world, a dying sport, but the top of the heap nonetheless. No one ever expected the UFC to supplant boxing as king of the hill given that boxing had been around for over a century and had none the greatest heights that a betting sport could know. UFC were like something cooked in a guy’s basement and unleashed on the betting public.
However, the UFC odds fights had instant appeal and from a very humble beginning the UFC odds fights have grown steadily ever since. At first, only available for rent of purchase on DVD, the UFC odds grabbed the bettor’s attention and didn’t let go. Even after the novelty of the UFC fighting wore it was evident that there was a great deal of skill involved as well.
Since then fighters have been refining their technique, the quality of the UFC odds fighting has continued to improve and the wild sport of UFC odds fighting has now gained the respect not only of the fighting world but of the greater sporting world as well.