West Ham vs Liverpool Prediction Betting Tips & Preview
Date: 29/12/24Kick-off time: 17:15Venue: London StadiumJulen Lopetegui’s West Ham United host Arne Slot’s high-flying Liverpool on Sunday evening. West Ham, languishing in 14th place, will…
Thailand’s Panya Pradabsri (43-2, 27KO) clashes with Venezuelan Carlos Canizales (27-2-1, 19KO) for the vacant WBC World light-flyweight title on Boxing Day in Bangkok.
Now 33, Pradabsri won the WBC minimumweight belt back in 2020, with an impressive win over Chayaphin Moonsri (Wanheng Menayothin).
He made four successful defences over almost three years before losing the championship to Yudai Shigeoka in 2023.
The Japanese southpaw looked so strong and powerful with his backhand left to win 119-109 on two cards. It was later revealed that he broke both hands in round five yet still continued to throw power punches, which visibly hurt Pradabsri, all the way to the final bell.
Canizales is also a former world champion. The 31-year-old won the WBA light-flyweight title in 2018, which he defended twice then lost to Esteban Bermudez three years later via KO.
In January this year he took the talented Kenshiro Teraji all the way to a mixed decision result in Japan for the WBC, WBA and Ring light-flyweight titles.
It was a fight of the year candidate, which saw the challenger Canizales floored early in round two. Then Canizales landed an inch-perfect overhand right, bang on the button in round three to deck the champion. The pair spent the full 12 rounds swinging with everything they had and delivered a fantastic advert for the second lowest weight in boxing.
Pradabsri has scored three consecutive KOs since then, all within five rounds, and Canizales bounced back with a mixed decision win over Ivan Garcia Balderas in July to win the WBC Silver light-flyweight title, which doubled up as a Final Eliminator.
Pradabsri has a great inside game, with stamina to last. Once he gets into his flow, he is phenomenal. He can be caught quite often, because he stands in the pocket so it’s a style that will always be open when you’re stood in range all the time.
Canizales has the power to hurt Pradabsri, but the Thai fighter has proven his chin and heart already. If Panya, also known as CP Freshmart, is able to impose his gameplan as a pressure fighter who operates on the inside, then this fight will be his to be in control of.
Canizales is a good counter-puncher, but can be guilty of overloading on his shots at times. If Pradabsri can keep the fight in close quarters where he can use his compact style and outwork the Venezuelan, then he could subdue his opponent’s attacks, but he is bound to take some big shots back during this contest, which is likely to swing back and forth.
This could be another fight of the year contender, but I predict Pradabsri to be the busier, more accurate and effective contender to win the fight on points.
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There are several options when it comes to betting on boxing, and the more you know, the better your chances of success. We will now go into more detail about some of the different betting markets that you will find, and discuss a few potential strategies you could use.
As with most sports, the outright market is probably the simplest, because you’re just betting on who will win the fight. There are no other criteria to consider, other than the fact that with many of the best bookies for boxing, you can also bet on the draw. However, draws in boxing are very rare and not many people tend to back this outcome.
Bear in mind that in many fights, one boxer tends to be a heavy favourite and it’s usually quite easy to pick the winner. There don’t tend to be that many shock results. Therefore, the odds on the favourite are often very low, even if you use the bookie with the best odds as described earlier in the article.
If you’re happy betting at short odds, you can certainly get a good success rate simply by backing short price favourites in boxing. But many people prefer to look for bigger wins. So you may sometimes need to look at some of the other markets to get a better return on your bet.
This market lets you choose not only who will win the fight, but how they will win. Different methods of victory are usually grouped as follows:
So because there are more possible outcomes in this market, the odds are higher than just the outright win market.
The Round Betting market offers the opportunity to get the highest odds. Here you can bet on which fighter will win, and which round he/she will win in.
Options to bet on a fighter to win on points, or to bet on the draw, are both also included in this market. In a 12 round bout, that gives 27 different possible outcomes. Therefore, the odds on each one are naturally going to be much higher. Think of it as the equivalent of the correct score market in football betting.
So the round betting market offers the biggest potential wins when betting on boxing. But of course, it’s harder to predict the outcome. You do have the option to split your stake to cover more than one outcome though. So if you felt that a fighter would win within the first 3 rounds, you could split your stake to back him to win in round 1, round 2 and round 3. The odds would mean you’d get a good profit if any of those outcomes happened.
This is a simple market in which you decide whether the fight will last all 12 rounds or not. Therefore there are only two outcomes to bet on, Yes or No.
It’s possible to get a decent success rate when betting on this market. Check the stats and the history of each boxer and ask yourself the following:
The answers to these key questions should give you a good idea of whether the fight is likely to go the distance or not. There can still be surprises, but you’ll certainly win more bets than you lose.
This market allows you to bet on the total number of rounds the fight will last for. The advantage here is that you do not need to specify who will win, just how long it will last.
For example, let’s consider a market of Over/Under 3.5 Rounds. There are only two options to bet on, either Over 3.5 Rounds or Under 3.5 Rounds. Therefore, you would approach the market as follows:
You will find that similar markets are available for Over/under 4.5, Over/Under 5.5, Over/Under 6.5 etc.
As any professional punter will tell you, the key to making a profit is not knowing who will win every time. Because obviously, that is not possible. The real trick is making sure that when you do win, you get the best possible odds on your bet.
We studied the odds for outright bets on every professional boxing match over a period of three months. We wanted to find the best bookies for boxing odds over a prolonged period of time.
As you would expect, Betfair and Bet365 are better than most of the competition. But the results showed that Betfred have the highest odds overall and came out well in some of the other markets like round betting.
Betfred were consistently best or equal best odds on nearly every outright market we recorded. They blew some of the other online bookies away in terms of the value they offered on boxing, and their user ratings are good too. So if you don’t have an account with them yet, we would definitely recommend joining.
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