{"id":3612,"date":"2018-04-06T17:59:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T16:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2018-04-06T19:35:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T18:35:04","slug":"will-i-sir-tom-battling-voice-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/news-events\/will-i-sir-tom-battling-voice-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Will.i.am and Sir Tom battling it out for Voice win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Voice final takes place this weekend with Will.i.am firm favourite to claim the title with his act Donel Mangena.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old from Southampton has impressed throughout, and the Bookmakers consider him the likely winner.<\/p>\n<p>Should Donel take the win, he will be the second winner for Will.i.am &#8211; whose only previous win came in 2014 with Jermain Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>18-year-old Ruti Olajugbagbe under the tutelage of Sir Tom Jones is considered the only real opposition to Donel with the Bookmakers &#8211; with Jennifer Hudson&#8217;s duet Belle Voci rated as much as 10\/1 with Olly Murs&#8217;s act Lauren Bannon is 12\/1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is very much a two horse race with the brilliant teenagers Donel and Ruti heading the markets by some distance,&#8221; said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donel is odds-on at a best of 8\/13 whilst Ruti is 7\/4 &#8211; the other two finalists are just about without a chance according to the Bookmakers here, with Belle Voci 10\/1 and Lauren Bannon 12\/1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Voice final odds:<\/strong><br \/>\nDonel Mangena 8\/13<br \/>\nRuti Olajugbagbe 7\/4<br \/>\nBelle Voci 10\/1<br \/>\nLauren Bannon 12\/1<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner.jpg 865w, https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner-768x306.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Voice final takes place this weekend with Will.i.am firm favourite to claim the title with his act Donel Mangena. The 16-year-old from Southampton has impressed throughout, and the Bookmakers consider him the likely winner. Should Donel take the win, he will be the second winner for Will.i.am &#8211; whose only previous win came in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[74,1640,2703],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2827,2930,3914,4867,4863,4870,4862,4860,115,4474,4855,2283,4868,4861,4859,4857,4865,4869,4864,4866],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}