Boxing and MMA Betting
The betting market is growing every day. Bookmakers offer more and more options for a particular game. More and more experienced and novice players try to predict the results of boxing matches. Therefore, it is so important to know what features should be taken into account when betting on boxing. In our review, we will tell you about the specifics of betting on fights with the participation of TOP boxers.
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- Saul Alvarez
- Alexander Usik
- Teofimo Lopez
- Tyson Fury
- Andy Ruiz
Saul Alvarez
The Mexican boxer has been a staple of the North American boxing ring for the past ten years. Moreover, we can safely say that Canelo is a long-lasting product and has been developed for a very long time. Saul began to be promoted back in the days when he was barely 20 years old. Alvarez was led super literate, and when necessary, he was helped by the judges. Needless to say, if, thanks to the judges, he almost escaped his only defeat in his career. In September 2013, Saul went to fight with Floyd Mayweather. The legendary American took it apart for parts, but one of the judges inexplicably counted Saul’s victory, so Floyd won only by majority decision. Even then, it was obvious that Alvarez was a boxer created for marketing.
Therefore, he is not allowed to lose, even when he does not earn enough to win. So it was in the fight with Austin Trout, so it was in the confrontation with Erislandi Lara and in two fights with Gennady Golovkin (in one of them a draw was fixed). All these fights with very controversial referee decisions, but at the same time, all decisions were always in Canelo’s favor. From this we can conclude that it is almost impossible to beat Alvarez on points, because the judges will insure him.
Thus, bets on the victory of Saul’s rivals on points are hopeless.
At the same time, knocking out Canelo is also almost unrealistic. Alvarez has a very strong chin. He withstood the best punches from one of the best punchers of recent years, Golovkin. Therefore, in principle, it makes no sense to bet against Saul.
As for the bets on him, in recent years he has been choosing more and more convenient opponents for himself, while often driving them into conditions of limited weight gain after weighing (as was the case with Sergei Kovalev) or setting other limits.
As a result, the percentage of early victories for Alvarez is only growing.
These are the main features that should be taken into account when you want to play a bet on a Mexican boxer.
Alexander Usik
The former undisputed world champion in the first heavyweight division has recently moved to the heavyweight division. And this is precisely the main feature that should be taken into account when studying the possibility of betting on fights with his participation. Alexander is a techie who doesn’t have a knockout punch. But if in the first heavy weight the tonnage of the blows delivered ultimately did its job and forced his rivals in most cases to surrender ahead of schedule, then in heavyweight this will not happen.
This is confirmed by the first two heavy fights. In the first of them, a very weak Chazz Witherspoon was put into his rivals, so he managed to stop him. But he did not manage to break Derek Chisora, the British of Zimbabwean origin had a good first half of the meeting, and missed a lot in the second, but these strikes did not become a particular problem for Derek.
So Usyk won only on points. Another feature of the Usyk is filigree defense and maneuverability. With this in mind, Alexander rarely misses hard attacks and knockout shines for him only with the most extreme case, which can be reduced to a statistical error.
The combination of the lack of a knockout blow and the ability to defend themselves, makes us come to the conclusion that fights with the participation of Alexander in the heavyweight division, most often, will cover the entire distance, and the winner will be determined by the judges
Teofimo Lopez
One of the main trump cards in the deck of the Top Rank promotion company, because they are interested in maintaining an area of invincibility around it for as long as possible. Of course, the brainchild of Bob Arum has the same Vasily Lomachenko in the company, but the company no longer intends to rely on the Ukrainian. He will have to conquer all his victories himself. Evidence of this is the face-to-face duel between Lopez and Loma. Perhaps Vasily did not win then, but he certainly did not lose with the score set by the judges. Those assessments only said that everyone in the United States was supportive of Lopez.
So if Teofimo will bring the matter to the judging decisions, then you need to understand that it will be difficult to beat him on points
In addition, it must be remembered that Lopez is a terrifying puncher, at least for lightweight realities, so many of his fights, as before, will end in knockout victories.
This is the main thing to know about Teofimo.
Tyson Fury
Tyson Fury is considered one of the most agile and technical heavyweights of our day. But at the same time, there is no dynamite in his fists. An early victory over Wilder shouldn’t be misleading. After all, there was a lot of weirdness about that fight. If we take the other fights of the scandalous Briton, then Fury did not often win ahead of schedule. Drunk, Klitschko, Wallin, Johnson – he beat all of them on points.
It should be noted that he, like the aforementioned Alvarez, has a reinforced concrete chin. Tyson rose even after knockdowns from Wilder. So knocking him out is almost impossible
Such features in attack and defense indicate that Fury’s fights, as in the case of Usyk, often must end with a decision of the referees.
Andy Ruiz
Ruiz is the most humble boxer on this list. But he is here because he is a typical example of what factors are important when betting on boxing. For example, Andy became world champion when he boxed in the United States. Then he went out on short notice and faced Anthony Joshua, who was boxing outside the UK for the first time. All these factors combined played an important role in the outcome of the fight. Ruiz, being on the courage, boldly walked forward and interrupted Joshua. And Anthony, preparing for another opponent, swam and lost by knockout.
Their second fight took place in Saudi Arabia, but actually in Joshua’s territory, since the promoter Anthony was engaged in revenge. Not only did the Briton run from Ruiz for half the fight in that fight, but the judges gave too harsh marks.
Thus, “on the road” Ruiz needs to win only by knockout.
This is evidenced by his fight in New Zealand with Joseph Parker. In a very close fight, the judges counted Joseph’s victory.
In addition, studying Ruiz’s fights, one can come to the conclusion that Andy, who is inclined to be overweight, is very bad when he erodes to an indecent size. He loses his trump card in the form of hand speed and loses to opponents with almost no chance.
So weight is an important factor in Ruiz’s fights. That is, perhaps, all the specifics that apply to an American of Mexican descent.
In general, given that boxing is not characterized by such a wide list as team sports, at least due to the limited number of fight outcomes, it makes no sense to highlight narrow specific features like bets on a specific round. Firstly, you rarely find them in the list even for the most top fights, and secondly, boxing, whatever one may say, is much more unpredictable than football or tennis, and it is better to focus here on the bets on the outcome of the battle presented in the recommendations above.
