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British and Commonwealth super-lightweight champion Jack Rafferty (26-0, 17 KOs) will defend his brace of belts against challenger Mark Chamberlain (17-1, 12 KOs) at the Altrincham Ice Dome on Saturday, August 23, live on DAZN.
The ‘Demolition Man’ meets ‘Thunder’ in the main event of a Queensberry Promotions event, promoted by Frank Warren.
The unbeaten champion, Rafferty, secured his British champion status with a stoppage victory over the highly-regarded prospect, Henry Turner, in October last year in Liverpool.
The 29-year-old Mancunian spent a long time fighting on local small hall shows around the North West, learning his trade in obscurity against journeymen for very little money until he finally got his big break against Turner.
Prior to that, there was a ninth-round knockout win over the dangerous Ben Fields in September 2023, which was followed up with a win over Lee Appleyard three months later to claim his first ever title – the Commonwealth super-lightweight crown. That was the beginning of his meteoric ascension – only Dalton Smith and Adam Azim are rated above him in the British super-lightweight rankings.
Since his career-best win over Turner, also taking his rival’s WBC International Silver title in the process, Rafferty has defended his trio of titles successfully in February this year against Central Area champ, Reece MacMillan, via seventh-round stoppage.
He then retained his Commonwealth crown against undefeated challenger, Cory O’Regan, less than two months on, in just five rounds, taking his tally to six stoppages in a row.
His next challenger, Mark Chamberlain, is the former holder of the IBF European, WBA Intercontinental and WBC Silver lightweight titles, and was on the cusp of challenging for a world title before he suffered a shock career defeat to Josh Padley at Wembley Stadium last September.
The Portsmouth southpaw was destined for greatness after winning seven of his first 10 bouts by knockout – five within the first round.
Early KO wins over Jeff Ofori and Gavin Gwynne solidified his status as a hot prospect capable of mixing it at the top, but it all came to a sudden halt when he was dropped by Padley in the eighth round of their September 2024 meeting. The victor went on to fight WBC world lightweight champion, Shakur Stevenson, in his next fight, which is where Chamberlain could have been.
Still only 26-years-old, Chamberlain returned to winning ways up at super-lightweight with a decision victory over Miguel Angel Scaringi in April and now looks to claim championships in this new division.
My Prediction
Chamberlain could potentially be Rafferty’s toughest opponent yet – on paper and in reality. He has taken a loss recently, but the Portsmouth puncher is confident in his ability and knows what he’s capable of, so he will be approaching this fight with full intentions of upsetting the odds and returning home a champion once again.
However, Rafferty’s momentum is going to be difficult to halt, with six consecutive KOs against good domestic competition. Ever since he stepped up in levels, he has stopped all his opponents, and he particularly likes the odd numbers, stopping his recent foes in rounds 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 – twice.
Although these two are very closely matched, each one with vulnerabilities and the capability to be beaten, it’s Rafferty’s tenacity, doggedness, determination and grit which stands out the most.
His refusal to give up or wander from the path of victory is what makes him the likeliest winner in this championship clash, for me.
Prediction: Rafferty to win via KO.
Extra Tip: Rafferty to win via KO in rounds 6-12.
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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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