Boxing Betting Lines
TYPES OF BOXING BETS. Online sportsbooks rarely offer more than six markets for wagering on a boxing match, even if it’s a big fight. Let’s take a look at the popular boxing betting types below. A moneyline bet in boxing is the same as in other popular sports.
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- It allows the sportsbook to make a margin on either selection, but some take a smaller margin by offering -105 sports betting lines. You might see -110 rendered as 1.91 (decimal odds) or 10/11.
For bettors, boxing is an attractive sport. The fact is the choices are fairly simple. It’s a pure one-on-one match-up, which means if you do your homework you have a decent chance of winning your bet. There’s no point spread. Most often you’re given two choices—the moneyline bet and the over/under wager.
With a boxing moneyline bet you’ll be given a favorite and an underdog. Such a line would look like this:
Boxing Odds& Betting Lines
Las Vegas Mma And Boxing Odds
Antonio Tarver -1200
Elvir Muriqi + 700
Draw +1700
With this moneyline, Antonio Tarver is the favorite at -1200. With any moneyline wager, the person or team listed with a minus is the odds-on favorite to win. In the example above to win $100, you would have to risk $1,200.
Elvir Muriqi is expected to lose the fight. Putting $100 on Muriqi will yield a $700 profit if he wins.
Boxing Lines
With some fights, you’ll be able to place a bet on the fight being a draw. Of course, draws are fairly rare in boxing and in the above fight Muriqi is outmatched to such a large degree by Tarver that it would be almost impossible for this fight finish as a draw. However, if you put $100 on draw and the match ends in a draw, you’ll get $1,700 plus your original wager back. A draw only occurs when those scoring the fight declare a draw. Disqualifications do not represent a draw in boxing betting.
When wagering on boxing, the moneyline you bet on is the one by which you will receive your payoff. Thus, if you bet on Muriqi at +700 and the line goes to +650 the next day, your payoff would still be based on +700 and not +650.
You’ll may also be given the opportunity to place an over/under bet on the number of rounds the fight will go. The over/under would look like this:
Total Rounds o 9.5 +160
Total Rounds u 9.5 -135
With the above example if you wagered $100 on the fight going over 9.5 rounds, you would earn a profit of $160 if the match progressed past the 1 and ½ minute point of the tenth round. (Each round in a professional fight is three minutes long.) In order to win $100 on the fight going less than the mid-point of round 10, you would have to wager $135.
The upcoming boxing odds for all fights are listed below. If you are looking to learn more about picking boxing winners, check out the how to handicap boxing article we wrote.
Boxing is a sport where handicapping the intrinsic matchup is typically more effective than using any trend. There's an old boxing saying that 'styles make fights' and that's also a good rule on how to bet the 'sweet science'. Every fighter has individual strengths and weaknesses and due to a limited number of fights there's little value in trying to extract patterns from a short sample size.
The exception to the above rule applies to trends derived from betting pattern information. You'll find a great handicapping tool here at Sportsbook.AG -we provide a breakdown of betting action on every fight on the board. Using this information you can 'read' the public's betting tendencies to find line value. It's necessary to approach major 'megafights' differently from lower profile or undercard fights. In a major fight -one that captures a lot of attention from the general public -it's usually a good idea to look for value going the other way. When you see one fighter taking a majority of the action it's a wise idea to start your research by looking at the underdog. Sometimes the public is right but on occasion they're buying into the 'hype' and ignoring the reality that the other fighter is superior.
For lower profile boxing matches the opposite approach can be effective. In a matchup between relative unknowns, a surge of action on one fighter is often indicative of 'sharp' players taking a position on an undervalued position. The closer to fight time this occurs the more significant it is.
As is the case with every other sport, it's important to not bet blindly on boxing based on a single trend. The best use of trends is as a 'red flag' that there might be some underlying factor that is attracting lopsided betting action. Knowing why the money is coming in the way it creates the strongest possible betting position.