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Date published: March 11, 2026
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WBA super-featherweight champion Jazza Dickens (36-5, 15 KOs) defends his world title to Anthony Cacace (24-1, 9 KOs) on St. Patrick’s Day weekend in Dublin, live on DAZN.
34-year-old Liverpudlian Jazza was elevated from Interim to full world champion in December 2025 after Lamont Roach was stripped.
WBA champ Dickens is a former IBO world champion, just like Cacace, but Jazza held the title at featherweight, Cacace at super-feather.
Dickens has been a pro since 2011, where he won his first 16 fights, picking up an English super-bantamweight title to earn him a shot at the British, which ended in a 10th round stoppage defeat to stylist Kid Galahad.
After two comeback wins against low-level opponents from abroad, Jazza challenged for that same British belt, this time claiming it with a UD win over Josh Wale.
He defended it to fellow Merseysider Martin Ward, then stepped up to fight incredible Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux the following year in 2017, rolling the dice against one of the best in the world and coming back with a broken jaw after just two rounds.
He then suffered more heartbreak when he lost his British title to Thomas Patrick Ward in his very next fight. But then he came back to reel off eight straight wins, taking part in, and ultimately winning, the Golden Contract tournament, where he defeated Leigh Wood in the semis, then Ryan Walsh in the final – two huge scalps.
That sin streak ended in another failed attempt at a world title, as his old rival Kid Galahad stopped him once again during the championship rounds, this time for the vacant IBF featherweight belt. Jazza once again came back stronger to win the IBO world title, which he lost in his first defence.
In 2024, Dickens won two bouts by knockout, which set up a huge 2025 where he defeated Zelfa Barrett over 10 rounds, to then go to Istanbul to KO the unbeaten prospect Albert Batyrgaziev to claim the WBA Interim belt, which was fortunately upgraded five months later.
Belfast’s Anthony “Apache” Cacace became an Irish champion in just his fifth fight, added the Celtic crown in fight 13, then suffered his first loss to Martin J Ward in 2017 when challenging for the British and Commonwealth crowns. One scorecard had Cacace just one point down at 115-114 against.
Anto came back just three fights later to clinch that British belt on his second attempt – just like Dickens did – with a split decision over the titleholder Sam Bowen. He defended it once, then won the IBO world title – again, the same as Dickens did – by dethroning another champion in Michael Magnesi from Italy.
He defended that IBO belt once, before upsetting the favourite, Joe Cordina, to snatch his IBF crown from him. Anto has now defended his IBO championship four times, the last two defences against Josh Warrington (UD12) and Leigh Wood (TKO9). He has defeated three world champions in a row.
The IBO world title will be up for grabs on the night, just not in this fight. Jono Carroll and Colm Murphy clash for the vacant IBO super-featherweight title on the same card in Ireland.
But back to this WBA bout, will Jazza legitimately earn his world title in the ring, proving to everyone he is not an ‘email world champion’, or will Cacace claim his third world title?
Dickens has been there, seen it, and done it all. Despite his age, his defeats, the miles on the clock (262 professional rounds), hecontinues to surprise and win fights as the underdog. His experience and IQ gives him an advantage over opponents, and as s a southpaw, he will always have that awkwardness and tricky stance to contend with.
Even though it seems like Jazza Dickens has been around forever, Cacace is actually three years older at 37 and only joined the pro ranks a year later.
Despite his KOs not even hitting double figures, sparring partners, such as Carl Frampton, can vouch for ‘The Apache’s’ punching power, as both Leigh Wood and Joe Cordina found out in recent fights, as neither one managed to reach the championship rounds against him.
Dickens will inevitably be coming forward trying to land his big hooks and uppercuts, while Cacace will likely be trying to keep him on the end of his rangy jabs and big right hands.
It’s crucial that Cacace keeps the range and pace at his preference, keeping it long and safe, using his speed and range to land straight shots. They say, ‘never hook with a hooker’, so if this fight turns into a toe-to-toe war fought in a phone booth, then it would likely suit Jazza the most.
Neither one has a high KO ratio, both well under 50%, but Jazza has stopped three from his last four foes, and Cacace has stopped two from his last three world champion opponents. Both are riding impressive win streaks, so each one’s confidence will be sky high.
The Belfast boxer has a huge height and reach advantage but that will only count if he is able to keep the smaller, aggressive opponent off him, who will be desperate to win his world title in the ring to prove everyone wrong. There is so much pride at stake for Jazza in this world championship fight, its arguably the biggest and most important fight of his career.
Both men are tough nuts to crack, so I would lean towards this going the distance, but I wouldn’t rule out a stoppage either, especially as all five of Jazza’s defeats have ended early. His all-action style and determination to get in close will always mean that he is open to getting caught.
I am leaning towards Cacace to win, but it’s a difficult decision to pick between points and KO. If Cacace does indeed win, then it’s 50-50, for me, whether that result will be distance or early. I’m tentatively picking Cacace to win on points.
Prediction: Cacace to win
Extra Tip: Cacace to win 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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