How To Make Bets On Fights

1. How To Make Bets On Fights In Fort
2. How To Make Bets On Fights Against

Boxing is one of the oldest sports in history and while the ultimate goal of the sport is to put butts in seats and entertain those fans, boxing, like anything else, has become an industry. Some fans want to take their fandom and turn it up a notch by becoming bettors and taking home some cash. If you are a budding bettor wanting to get better (see what we did there?) check out the list of basic tips below!

Bet the “Sure Thing”

Money line betting is often the only option for bettors wishing to bet on boxing matches. With a money line bet you simply bet on which fighter will win the match and your potential winnings are determined by the odds associated with each fighter. Bets on the favorite will obviously payout less than the same bets on the underdog. A moneyline bet is the simplest form of betting on a fight. You bet on the boxer that you think will win. You don’t need to choose how the boxer will win the fight or what round they win the fight. Betting on UFC fights and UFC fighters is fairly simple and straightforward. First of all, identify the sports operator that you’d like to use to place your bets. If you are looking for how to bet.

The odds can be presented in different formats such as Moneyline, decimal, and fractional. You should learn how to read the MMA betting odds set for this since they can help you learn how much profits you can make as you back different MMA fighters. In most cases, the odds are based on punters that wager $100. Check out the three formats used.

Be smart. Think of the betting world like a savings account (since it will directly affect your finances). It is better to save up smaller amounts of cash over a period of time than to get wrapped up in high-profit a.k.a “get rich quick” schemes (risky bets.) You bet on Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. because he was a 1996 Olympic medal winner, because he is 49-0.

Mayweather is like a high-profit company that sells its products at major stores like Wal-Mart: You keep buying those products not only because you like them, but because you know what you are going to get, just like with Mayweather. With his fights, the more tactical/evasive style that can lull his opponents (and fans to sleep) has yet to be figured out and while that running hasn’t made for the best fights in the world, the name of the game with him is consistency.

He’s safe, and that may be the key to building up cash to taking on those riskier bets. This is a matter of not only doing your research but being patient. To be blunt, safe bets just allow you to stay in the betting game longer.

Bet the High-Upside Underdog

In contradiction to the point made above, the “Notorious” Conor McGregor could be getting ready to shock the world when the MMA fighter faces Mayweather in a boxing super-fight set for August 26. Simply put, a lot of those people betting against McGregor simply don’t know what they’re talking about.

Yes, the UFC’s “Champ-Champ” is 0-0 in boxing, but he is also 21-3 overall in MMA and 9-1 inside the UFC’s octagon. Because McGregor is an MMA fighter, boxing media don’t see him as having much of a chance because McGregor will simply be in a striking match-up and the Irishman won’t have multiple disciplines to help him win the fight.

The thing is, even though he has had the option of turning to different things to win, McGregor has always been a boxer, only the fighting area will be different.

MMA fighters are also getting more and more accustomed to stance-switching, which creates different angles that their opponents are not expecting attacks to come from. Additionally, although Mayweather is 49-0, it was pointed out by the UFC President Dana White that Mayweather has age working against him and that he has struggled with southpaws (McGregor.)

As mentioned above, McGregor should know what fighting style to expect. In a similar blog post about MMA betting tips, Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm shocked the world when she delivered big by giving “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey her first loss.

She won because, looking back through Rousey’s career, she was actually a fairly one-dimensional fighter and the Jackson-Wink camp and those that bet on Holm that night noticed a routine, noticed what she always goes to and the same could be said about Mayweather (run-fighting and clinch work.) Looks for these trends.

There’s also a school of thought that if someone tells themselves something often enough, eventually it will start to be believed. It’s possible that McGregor’s best attribute is his intense self-belief through visualization and he’s been “dialed in” when it comes to that for months.

McGregor said to ESPN’s Dan Rafael earlier this year:

“I’m the boxing guy! Watch me take over boxing, trust me on that,” he yelled directly at me, only a few inches from my face. “No one in this boxing game knows what’s coming. Trust me on that. I’m going to step in there and shock the whole god damned world. Trust me on that.

Look me in the eyes, 28 years of age, confident as a m—–f—–, long, rangy, dangerous with every hand. Trust me, I’m going to stop Floyd, and you’re all going to eat your words. The whole world is going to eat their words.”

Again, just do your research and the odds can prove to be a bit misleading.

Target a Specific Fight

If you are more of a casual bettor just wagering on a boxing event with your friends and you simply don’t want to have a notebook’s work of info on a given card. There are ways to do as the subheading suggests and just focus on a single fight.

You can place an overall moneyline bet to pick the winner outright (like in the Mayweather-McGregor bout in the section above.) The other option is to place an over/under bet. This would simply concern the length of time a fight lasts (example: 5.5 rounds) and you wouldn’t need to know who wins.

A third path that could be taken would be to pursue a proposition line (prop) bet. There can be multiple props on any given fight. For example, a pre-fight pro could be if a fighter will miss weight or not (as was mentioned in the MMA blog) or for the Mayweather-McGregor fight, two are “will a rematch take place” and will a rematch take place in an octagon (MMA.)

These avenues give bettors a variety of options.

Parlay Betting

Parlay betting essentially takes the point made above and combines all of those side-bets into one wager (example: $200 on Mayweather to win and $200 on the fight ending by way of a unanimous decision.) The catch with a bet like this however is that whatever conditions are place on a fight, such as the ones in the example, the all must occur. This is an all-or-nothing bet.

Method of Victory Betting

This is exactly what you think it is and is possibly the second-most-important type of bet because it is not only tied to picking a specific winner like the traditional money line bet, but takes an educated guess at how that winner will get the job done.

How To Make Bets On Fights In Fort

For example, it has been mentioned time and time again that (while some think Mayweather might KO McGregor due to his inexperience in boxing) Mayweather has not scored a stoppage victory since 2011. So, the heavy favorite in all of his fights over the last few years prior to his September, 2015 retirement from the sport was for Mayweather to win by UD.

The methods to win boxing are: (Technical) Knockout, Unanimous, Majority, or Split, or Technical Decisions or a bet can also be placed on whether a fight ends by way of a draw ( Split, Majority, Technical—[injury/fouls] or Unanimous.

MMA has been one of the fastest growing/most popular sports in the world for some time and (while the sport is cyclical at times) the overall “staying power” of the sport is far from diminishing. With that in mind, fans who want to be more want to become bettors – and bettors want to cash in.

However, if you are new to the wide world of gambling, you may be asking? What types of wages do I look for in MMA and, more importantly, how do I avoid losing money? Fear not, friend! We have the answers you seek. Just have a look at the list below!

Bet on the Money Line or Bout

This is probably the best place to begin and easiest bet to make because what makes these bets easy for the new bettor is the little amount of work that goes into making a bet on a full fight. You just have to pick who is going to win a given contest outright.

However, it would be beneficial to those new bettors out there that are specifically betting on UFC fights to look at the fighters records on Sherdog.com or the UFC-partnered FightMetric, LLC to see how many strikes a given fighter throws or what their submission game is like. These bets are also simple because they tend to favor fighters on winning streaks (obviously.)

When “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey was in her prime, she was 12-0 with almost every finish coming by way of submission due to her trademark armbar and a significant portion of those victories came in the opening five minutes. This led to her having a career fight time of just over 27 minutes prior to her first loss at UFC 193, a career fight time that was just over the length of one full title fight (5 rounds, 25 minutes total.)

This made her a safe bet for much of her career.

Place an Over/Under Bet

In combat sports, over/under betting refers to the length of time that a particular fight will go, specifically the number of rounds (up to five in a UFC title fight or main event, see above. This bet is also good for newbie bettors because the end result doesn’t matter, your only concern is did your fighter beat the clock?

Examples of a fight that might be safe to place an over/under bet on would be a Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson or Joanna Jedrzejczyk title fight. The two have more tactical styles than other fighters (Johnson has 11 wins by way of decision with his Polish counterpart having nine. Specifically, her last four consecutive bouts have gone the distance.)

It’s not that they prefer to be more evasive (it might look that way,) it’s just that the name of the game in any sector of combat sports is to hit and not get hit and the two use their speed to their advantage, letting the damage build up over time.

Jedrzejczyk is a stand-up fighter who lands 6.87 significant (fight-altering) strikes per minute with an accuracy rate of 50 percent. She absorbs just 2.43 significant strikes per minute, defending against them 68 percent of the time.

Johnson, also more of a striker than anything else, connects with 3.49 significant strikes in 60 seconds with 53 percent accuracy while only taking 1.71 returning shots in the same amount of time and defending against strikes 67 percent of the time. Although this approach is considered boring by some fans, it makes for another safe bet on your part.

Make a “Method of Victory” Bet

How To Make Bets On Fights Against

This is again a case of simply examining tendencies. Rousey would be an obvious pick for a submission win just as Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino (17-1-0, 1 No Contest overall in MMA, 2-0 in the UFC) is always the favorite to score a knockout victory as 15 of her fights have ended in such a fashion.

Although, it also helps to know that you will see more UFC fights end by way of a decision than in any other noteworthy promotion in the sport and you can have a better guess during which fights that might occur courtesy of this breakdown by weight class.

Per BetMMA.tips at the time of this writing (June 28,) you are most likely to see fights go to the judges in the 115-pound to 155-pound weight classes (women’s strawweight to the male-only lightweight.)

Tip: How to Spot an Upset

Never forget to expect the unexpected. Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm KO/TKO win over Rousey at UFC 193 didn’t come simply because Holm landed a head kick at the right time. She won because everyone knew Rousey’s one-dimensional game-plan ahead of the fight: get in close, strike if necessary, force a clinch, use the clinch to set up a judo throw, use the throw to lead to the armbar submission win.

Holm then lost to Miesha “Cupcake” Tate (a wrestler) in her first defense of the UFC women’s bantamweight (135-pound) championship because she still has no real ground game. Conor McGregor is coached by a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion in Dillon Danis, yet each of his three career defeats (one in the UFC) are through submissions. This is MIXED martial arts, never forget that just because one method seems like a sure thing, especially if you are betting on a style vs. style bout.

Bet on Proposition Lines

For some, prop lines can be pure fun to bet on because there are so many things that can be bet on in this particular area of gambling as a whole. You can bet on if the fight will win the UFC-specific KO, Submission, or Fight of the Night awards and come out the winner of that fight regardless of who the actual winner is.

Sometimes a bet doesn’t even have to revolve around the fight itself (such as a bet on whether or not Johny “Bigg Rigg” Hendricks will miss weight he has missed weight three times now, including his most recent at UFC Fight Night 112.) Additionally, you can have multiple prop bets on one fight.

For new bettors, the best approach may be to take bets that are more of a sure thing and let those profits build up over time, because you will lose. That is bound to happen and underdog bets are supposed to be more tantalizing so that you place big money on them and then the house (a sportsbook, Vegas, etc…) wins big. The exception to the rule would be UFC 193 for those that noticed the trend and bet on Holm.

In short, just be responsible with your money. Do yourself that favor by doing your research. Hopefully, the above post helps out!