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Xander Zayas (23-0, 13 KOs) defends his unified WBA and WBO World super-welterweight crowns to challenger Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis (35-0, 31 KOs), live on DAZN PPV in Brooklyn this Saturday, June 27.
At the tender of age of five, Xander’s mother took him to the local boxing gym to learn to defend himself from bullies, and the youngster was soon winning his first amateur bout at the age of six. He begun his illustrious amateur career with 20 straight wins.
As a pro, he won 14 bouts and his first title within the first three years. He used that WBO-NABO belt to rise up the world rankings, defending it seven times. It was in July 2025 when he had earned his shot at the WBO world title against Jorge Garcia Perez, which he grabbed with both hands by winning via unanimous decision, one judge scoring all but one round to the Puerto Rican.
He took his shiny new belt back to his family’s homeland of Puerto Rico for a unification with WBA titlist Abass Baraou, which Zayas triumphed via split decision. This will be the 23-year-old’s first defence as a unified champion.
‘Boots’ Ennis is also a national amateur champion who has unified world titles as a pro, whilst staying unbeaten, all exact similarities shared with Zayas.
Aged 28, the Philadelphian made his move up to super-welterweight last October, winning the WBA Interim belt against Uisma Lima in under two minutes, announcing his arrival at 154lbs in explosive fashion. Prior to that, he had captured the WBA, IBF and Ring titles at welterweight, scalping the likes of David Avanesyan, Karen Chukhadzian, Eimantas Stanionis in the process.
The stage is now set to discover boxing’s next pound-for-pound star. The winner of this crunch clash will likely break into the top 10 P4P list and the other will devastatingly lose their unbeaten record and pride.
Boots is so crisp and clinical behind that razor-sharp jab. His demolition job over Uisma Lima was highly impressive, displaying his punching power up at 154.
Zayas is an all-round tidy boxer with fantastic upper trunk movement to find punches from different angles. Boots likes to jab, Zayas likes to hook, setting up a very interesting match.
I’m siding with Ennis to edge an intriguing battle between two very closely matched, worthy world champions. I just think he has that extra speed, sharpness, experience and quality to box clever behind his excellent jab.
Zayas is just 23, so he will continue to achieve big things in boxing, but I can’t see past a Boots win in this championship clash. I think this could be the fight and performance to silence a lot of critics.
Prediction: Ennis to win
Extra Tip: Ennis to win by decision
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Tim Rickson is the WhichBookie boxing analyst who joined the team midway through 2022 and will be providing boxing betting tips throughout the year for all of the big fights.
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Many of the big boxing matches are only available via Pay Per View. However, you may be able to find streams of some of the less-popular fights via the Bet365 Live Streaming service. Bet365 provides over 100,000 live streams of sporting events every year and is regarded as one of the best services for streaming sports online without charge.
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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