Boxing sports betting news, odds and picks
This Saturday night, big-time boxing gets back on the schedule as Gennady Golovkin faces Martin Murray in Monaco and Arthur Abraham meets Paul Smith for a second time in Germany. In Monaco, Golovkin is supported by a heavyweight clash featuring Tyson Fury‘s brother Hughie facing his toughest test to date in Ukrainian Andriy Rudenko. Not […] More
The boxing calendar is light this weekend, as there are lines for a pair of February 14 fights scheduled in the UK. The first, at the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton features lightweight action as Terry Flanagan faces Stephen Ormond, and the second is at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool where super welterweights Carson Jones and Brian Rose clash. […] More
The Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Miss. hosts ESPN2’s “Friday Night Fights” on Feb 6 as middleweights Sergio Mora and Abraham Han square off for the vacant USBA title. The match was originally scheduled to feature Mora facing IBF World titlist Jermain Taylor for a piece of the world belt, but Taylor is in jail and Han […] More
On Saturday night at the Allphones Arena in Sydney Australia, Sonny Bill Williams takes on veteran Chauncy Welliver in a scheduled 10-round boxing match. Williams is one of the best rugby players on the planet, and he is also 6-0 as a pro boxer. In fact, the entire Terry Devlin promoted card is filled with […] More
After a few slow weeks as the calendar year kicked off, we are back with another edition of the weekend combat sports betting blog. Our veteran blogger Miguel Iturrate has about $2,300 in his fictitious bankroll, and he is looking at the boxing match in Australia featuring all-world rugby player Sonny Bill Williams. Of course […] More
The ESPN2 Friday night fight card scheduled for the Beau Rivage Casino in Mississippi on February 6 has a new main event as Sergio “The Latin Snake” Mora faces Abraham Han for the vacant USBA middleweight title. The odds are not up for this fight yet. Mora is going to be a little disappointed, as […] More
World Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko will be fighting on U.S. soil for the first time in more than seven years, as he has booked Madison Square Garden on April 25 for a showdown with undefeated Brandon Jennings, who is 19-0. The opening line at the books see Klitschko a huge (-1610) favorite, with Jennings returning […] More
London’s O2 Arena hosts a boxing card promoted by Eddie Hearn and his Matchroom Boxing promotion this Saturday night in London. The main event features Lightweights Kevin Mitchell and Daniel Estrada in a 12-round bout for a vacant WBC Silver title. The bulk of the card is filled with a series of regional title fights, […] More
Welterweight Brandon Rios went to Broomfield, Colo. and earned a third round stoppage over arch-rival Mikey Alvarado last night in what was the third meeting between the two men. For Rios, the fight not only is his second in three fights with Alvarado, it is his second win in a row since he lost to Alvarado […] More
The ongoing boxing saga of who will fight who this coming May has lost one of it’s major players as Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has signed to face James Kirkland. Details are still being hashed out, but the fight is expected to be held at the AlamoDome on May 2. Alvarez had long been rumored to […] More
This Saturday, the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colo. will host the close of a boxing rivalry, as Mikey Alvarado and Brandon Rios meet for the third time. The pair has split the first two meetings, and the first two fights were both entertaining slugfests. Rios took the initial October 2012 meeting, getting a stoppage in the […] More
Last night in Las Vegas, Deontay Wilder became the first American in eight years to own a piece of the World Heavyweight Title when he defeated Bermane Stiverne by unanimous decision over 12 rounds for the WBC version of the crown. Wilder had entered the fight favored to win the belt, and he kept his […] More
