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Seven-weight world champion Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano (47-4-1, 31 KOs) defends her WBA and WBO world featherweight titles to stand-in opponent Reina Tellez (13-0-1, 5 KOs) in her homeland, Puerto Rico, on January 3, live on DAZN.
Now 37, Serrano will go down in history as a pioneer for female boxing. She became the first ever undisputed champion in a four-belt era from Puerto Rico in 2023 and holds the record for the most world championships won in different weight classes by a female boxer.
Despite an earlier loss way back in 2012, Serrano has only been defeated one other opponent – Katie Taylor. The two biggest female rivals in boxing broke boundaries, made history and smashed viewership records when they fought in an epic trilogy between 2022-2025.
In all three fights, the action was exhilarating, with both boxers fighting their hearts out, providing the watching world with the biggest and best advertisement for female boxing. The Irish superstar won all three bouts, but not without controversy, with many believing Serrano had solid arguments for winning the first two, with the third fight being a bit easier to judge to Taylor.
The first clash was for the undisputed lightweight championship and the following two for the undisputed super-lightweight belts.
Despite fighting up in weights, Serrano has kept her WBO world featherweight title since 2019, so far clocking up six successful defences.
Her newest challenger is an unexpected one. Unbeaten Mexican-American Reina Tellez, 22, has stepped in as late replacement.
She is a huge underdog, due to her inexperience at this level, which is something she fully understands and has vowed to fight to win, to inspire all the young girls out there who have been told they won’t make in this sport.
She has been in and around the top 10 in the world for over a year and is ready for the step up to a championship fight, but it’s not just one rung up the ladder, it’s the full stretch against a female boxing record-breaker and future Hall of Famer.
Tellez is going to give this her very best, knowing she has been fortunate to be given such a huge opportunity on such a big stage.
She has a fantastic left hook, which she uses a lot, but its more swift and swiping than strong and stinging. She has a good judgement of distance and uses her feet well to get in and out of range.
Serrano, however, is just going to be too experienced, sharp, strong and busy for the challenger. The southpaw, I believe, is going to be visibly quicker and sharper. She may have to adapt to that voluminous left hook coming in around her right side, but I don’t expect it to cause too much trouble.
It’s always difficult to tell how a fighter well fare when placed up at the highest level – whether they will sink or swim – or when they haven’t truly had their chin checked too. Tellez appears to be game and up for some tough exchanges, so I would lean towards Serrano winning this on points. She has only scored one stoppage in her last 10 fights, which could further back my theory or it could mean she is well overdue another knockout win.
Prediction: Serrano to win
Extra Tip: Serrano to win via unanimous 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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