Boxing Betting Options

Kirill | 2017-08-02 |

Betting on boxing is pretty straight forward in most cases. However, some rather inexperienced punters would think you can only bet on the winner of a match. That’s obviously not the case. Most bookmakers offer plenty of different boxing betting options you can make use of.

We will explain the most common boxing betting kinds below.

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Boxing Betting Options

The following markets are the most popular and also the most commonly used boxing betting options. Almost every bookmaker offers at least money lines bets. However, there are several bookmakers that offer you plenty of additional options to bet on. Click on the button below to check the best betting sites for boxing.

Money Line Betting

Money line betting is the most traditional boxing betting option. For years and years, people have bet on the winner of a fight. Basically you are making an assumption on which fighter is going to win the bout. Simple as that.

We will show you an example of how the odds for a money line betting market may look like:

Floyd Mayweather 1.15

Draw 50

Conor McGregor 4.70

In this case, the bookmaker is favoring Floyd Mayweather to win the fight. The decimal number next to the name indicates the odds for a Mayweather victory, a draw, and a McGregor victory.

A draw in a boxing fight is highly unlikely, that’s why the odds are that high.

If you bet $100 on Mayweather you would make a net profit of $100 x 1.15 = $15.

If you bet bet $100 on McGregor you would win $100 x 4.70 = $370.

Round Betting Over/Under

Another great way to bet on boxing fights are the so called over/under betting markets. Most bookmakers offer these and they are not that difficult to understand.

By betting on the over or under, you won’t be betting on the outcome of the fight. Instead you will be betting on whether or not the fight is going to last under or over a certain number of rounds. The bookmaker sets an amount of rounds and you will have to decide if there will be more or fewer rounds in that fight in total.

Let’s look at an example:

Over 2.5 Rounds 1.062

Under 2.5 Rounds 8.00

As you can see, the odds for both options are really uneven. The bookie strongly believes the fight is going to last longer than 2 rounds. In this case the fight needs to last at least 3 rounds or more for you to win if you bet the over. However, if you feel like the fight will take less than 3 rounds, you have to bet on the under 2.5 rounds. In this case you would win a decent amount of money due to the high odds.

Parlays

Parlays allow you to bet on several boxers at the same time. It is also known as combination bet. Your bet will only cash if every boxer in the parlay wins his fight. As you might have already guessed, parlays are way less likely to succeed than a single bet or an over/under bet.

Nevertheless you can of course give it a try if you feel confident enough. Certain bookmakers even offer special promos for these parlays.

Special Bets

Some sportsbooks will also offer special betting options for major fights, like if there is going to be a knockdown in a specific round, in which round a fight might end, and bets on the exact method of victory.

As you can see there are plenty of boxing betting options to choose from. In the final part of our boxing betting guide we will introduce the best boxing betting sites.