A seven-figure sum is expected to be gambled on Conor McGregor's fight with Donald Cerrone in the city of Las Vegas.
The Notorious makes his long awaited Octagon return in the early hours of Sunday morning when he faces Cowboy at UFC 246.
John Lukasik, Sports Book Director at betting shop The Book at The LINQ Hotel + Experience, admitted there wasn't as much interest in this bout as previous McGregor fights - but is still expecting to take some big bets in the hours before it starts.
He revealed: "It's not as much as the Khabib [fight] and it's definitely not as much as the Mayweather. I don't know if anything is ever going to top that.
On business in general surrounding the fight, he added: "You definitely see an uplift in it. It's really nice to have that. It's definitely noticeable. Again you can't compare anything to that Mayweather fight, but these are big.
"It's easily going to be a seven figure fight around the city of Las Vegas for something like this.
"There'll probably be less betting [than the Khabib fight], but then again you talk to a lot of combat sports fans and there's a lot of people that think Khabib is the greatest pound for pound fighter of all-time.
"If I was to predict, I would say there's probably going to be a little bit less money gambled this time around.
"We're probably going to get a lot of larger bets on McGregor because he's -330 [Vegas odds] so you got to bet 33 bucks to win 10.
"I could see a lot of bigger bets coming in on him.
"On the Khabib fight, we had some six figure bets on that one."
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