Boxing Odds

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:

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.