The early betting on the fight was very even at most sportsbooks.

With the handle already well into the six figures at MGM, only $3,100 more money had been bet on the favored Golovkin than on Alvarez.


MGM expects to handle multimillion dollars on the Golovkin-Alvarez fight.

"It'll be about a third of Mayweather-McGregor"


"They always say that, as a bookmaker, you just want good, solid, two-way action and just let the juice take care of itself," Ed Salmons, assistant manager of Westgate SuperBook, told ESPN. "That's what this fight is, just absolutely tremendous two-way action."