BETTING ON BOXING
Even if boxing is not exactly the most popular betting sport, a big majority of online bookmakers have started offering many types of betting markets and types of bets for boxing. We'll talk about the boxing betting offer delivered by the top online bookmakers.
If we go back in time, in 1970 betting on boxing was way more popular than betting on NFL. As time passed by, boxing began to lose ground to other sports and became one of the weakest sports in terms of the number of bets placed. Since online betting was launched, boxing started to regain the confidence and the attention of bettors.
Nowadays it's very difficult to find an online bookmaker without boxing being offered. Bet365, Unibet, William Hill, 10bet and Paddy Power are just a few online bookmakers where you can find and bet on all kinds of boxing matches, such as: Cruiser weight, Light Heavy weight, Super Bantam weight, Heavy weight, Middle weight and Welter weight.
If you're a classic bettor and you're mainly interested in the main markets, more exactly the "match winner" market, then 10Bet and William Hill will do the job. Apart from this main market, if you also want to bet on the winning method market (by KO, TKO, DQ or points) - then you should choose Unibet.
Other online bookmakers have decided to go even further and diversify the boxing betting offer with more interesting markets. For example, Paddy Power offers match betting, round betting, group round betting (e.g. you can bet on the winner of rounds 1 to 3, rounds 4 to 6 or rounds 7 to 9), alternative group round betting, method of victory, will the fight go to the distance and when will the fight end (in which round).
Bet365, one of the most visited online betting sites, delivers a good variety of boxing markets, such as:
o Fight Outcome (5 Way) - meaning that you will have the possibility of betting on a player to win by KO, TKO or Disqualification, by Decision or Technical Decision. Also, you could bet on Draw or Technical Draw.
o To win the fight (2 Way) - you just have to bet on the player who you think will win.
o Total rounds (over/under) - a market which is very hard to find at other online bookmakers.
o Round betting - this market allows you to place bets on the winner of a specific boxing round.
o Round group betting - if you consider that a boxing player has chances to win a couple of consecutive rounds, then this is the best market for you.
Boxing may not be as popular as football, tennis or basketball, but it surely is a sport which can bring a lot of fans together and make online bookmakers add and diversify the betting markets and promotions for this sport.
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