That's why they call him Money! Mayweather 'wins £4.2m after predicting Miami Heat's NBA win over Indiana'

Boxing great Floyd Mayweather turned a stunning £4.25m after betting on the outcome of Miami Heat's match against Indiana Pacers on Monday night, it has been claimed.

The man they call 'Money' due to the fact he is the world of sport's highest earning athlete, put down the bet on Game 7 of the series, according Vegas Gambling Steam tweeted before the game.

LeBron James' team were a seven-point favorite against the Pacers, and luckily for Mayweather, the team ended up destroying their rivals 99-76, doubling the star's money.



Mayweather apparently made the eye-boggling bet just after he signed a six-fight £131m with Showtime and agreed to fight Canelo Alvarez in September for some £26m.

The sports star is no stranger to gambling, and winning, but even for him this latest wager is extreme.

The tweet revealing the details of the bet, said: 'Good source from my #HeavyHitters Vegas crew alerted me that Floyd Mayweather has laid over $5,900,000 on Heat -7 tonight in Vegas.'

'This is kind of ridiculous. C'mon Floyd,' Benjamin Lee Eckstein of AmericasLine.com, a nationally-syndicated odds column, told the New York Daily News.

'I know that there have been people who walked into a casino and bet a million dollars, but not on basketball. It was always the Super Bowl.'