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Ryan Garner (19-0, 10 KOs) hosts Michael Magnesi (23-2, 13 KOs) at his local St. Mary’s football stadium, the home of Southampton FC, on June 20, live on DAZN.
The super-featherweights headline at the Championship club’s stadium on the top of a Queensberry Promotions bill. The main event will see the WBC #1 and #2 contenders clash for the WBC Interim super-featherweight title, which puts the winner in line to face the world champion, O’Shaquie Foster, next.
The stakes are high and the stadium sold-out. ‘The Piranha’ has to defeat ‘The Lone Wolf’ for a shot a world title glory and he will be backed over 32,000 local fans.
The unbeaten Brit has won four of his last seven by knockout and is now 5-0 in championship contests. When he defeated in-form Reece Bellotti in July last year, he walked away a quartet of titles – British, European, Commonwealth, WBC International.
Het set himself up for this biggest fight of his career by stopping former NABF champ Cristian Bielma in just three rounds in March.
Aged only 28, Garner has been a professional puncher for over 10 years now. He had bouts of inactivity around 2020 and 2021 due to personal issues outside the ring, but that’s well behind him now as he prepares for his eighth fight in three years.
His experienced Italian opponent, 31 from Lazio, only had his pro debut eight months before Garner, but is entering into his 29th bout. The ‘Lone Wolf’ has won 11 championship contests within his career, collecting Italian titles and IBF and WBC regional belts. He currently holds the WBC Silver strap and once reigned as the IBO World super-featherweight champion.
In his fourth defence of the IBO belt, he was split-decisioned by Anthony Cacace in Manchester in 2022, then his second defeat came against Japan’s Masanori Rikiishi in 2024, agonisingly up on the cards going into the final round before he was stopped with less than 30 seconds to go in front of his home city.
He comes in as the WBC #1 contender, so he may be fighting 900 miles away from home, but he will draw confidence from his pole position on the grid.
Garner is undefeated and on an upwards trajectory. He likes to start fast and throw big shots right from the opening bell, bypassing any tentative, range-finding jabs in favour of big left hooks.
Ryan does possess a tight guard, very good fundamentals, but he is open to getting caught when he shifts his weight to the side to drive in big hooks and uppercuts. He does have decent upper trunk movement to avoid a lot of damage, but when he does take a shot, so far, he has taken them well. As an aggressive fighter, he can be drawn into a scrap, as seen against Reece Bellotti.
His jab is an effective weapon too, it’s fast and sharp. ‘The Piranha’ is at his best when he’s putting his shots together in threes and fours. He hits big and when he senses blood, he goes in for the kill, just like the predator fish he is named after.
Magnesi likes to come forward, he does so while dipping his head and finding angles to land his big shots from in close.
His style of boxing is going put Garner under constant pressure, forced to fight at a high pace from the first bell, but the Italian is going to be available to be hit because of his positioning. Garner will need to land some educated, clever shots when backing up or fighting on the inside.
With the magnitude of the event, this being his dream fight at his beloved football ground, the home fighter is going to be at his very best, incentivised by the world title shot and roared on by the biased crowd.
If he can get to grips with the pressure-fighter’s style early on, then Garner should be able to find patterns to land clean shots as the opponent advances. It’s going to be gritty and tough early on, but if Garner can settle, box clever, then he could begin to break down the ‘Lone Wolf’s’ armour to go for a knockout when he’s weakened or wearied.
I know Magnesi is tough, he went 12 rounds with a big puncher in Anto Cacace, but his style is just so busy and aggressive that there will be so many fierce exchanges that something is going to have to give before the 12 rounds are up.
Garner has to dominate on the inside, deal with the high pressure and pace, but ultimately box to his own game plan to stay composed and patient, to pick those crucial shots at the right time, and gradually break through the tough exterior of his experienced opponent over time.
This could very well go to points, and Magnesi has a strong chance of overwhelming Garner with his crazy workrate and pressure, but he’s a 5/1 outsider, and I have a lot of faith in Garner delivering the win for his partisan, passionate fans. This occasion is just too big and desirable for him to not step up and deliver. He’s been asking for this, so he will do everything in his power to provide a proud performance.
I’m picking Garner to find the stoppage in an action-filled fight, but I don’t foresee it coming early. I think ‘The Piranha’ is going to have work very hard for it over quite a few arduous, exhausting rounds.
Prediction: Garner to win by KO/TKO
Extra Tip: Garner to win by KO/TKO in rounds 7-12
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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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