Netherlands vs Japan takes place on Sunday 14th June 2026 at AT&T Stadium in the FIFA World Cup Group F, with the Dutch chasing another strong tournament run and Japan looking to spring a surprise on the big stage.
Date published: April 15, 2026
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“The Nightmare” Nathaniel Collins (17-0-1, 8 KOs) enters into an immediate rematch with unbeaten Spaniard Cristobal Lorente (20-0-3, 8 KOs) in Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, April 17, live on DAZN.
The undefeated featherweights headline a Queensberry Promotions event with Nathaniel’s WBC Silver title on the line, but what makes the stakes even bigger is that the main event doubles up as a world title eliminator.
The rivals have met before, last October, which saw the judges split with a 115-113 score for each, and the 114-114 card meant the result was called a draw, seeing Lorente keep his European belt, but that is now in the hands of Liam Davies
Despite a three-inch height advantage Lorente did not get off to a bright start, as the home fighter pressed forward in his southpaw stance. Collins made mistakes by overloading and missing with telegraphed shots. He had success with his backhand left whenever he landed in combinations, but it was partly due to Lorente taking too long to throw back.
The Scot appeared to be in control of the contest, until the middle rounds when the fight began to open up and flow back and forth a bit more. The exchanges became more even, then the pair thrilled spectators in round six with an absolute war, standing toe-to-toe unleashing hooks on each other with bad intent. They literally unloaded the kitchen sink on each other, which was not typical of the contest up to that point.
They continued to exchange evenly to the final bell, scrappily at times, tying up often, frantically throwing, and were eventually forced to settle for a share of the spoils.
It was the Barcelona boxer’s second successive stalemate, after drawing to 8-0 countryman Ruben Gil three months prior in June.
For Scotsman Collins, it was the first blemish on his record after reaching 17-0 within seven years as a pro, collecting Commonwealth, British, EBU Silver and WBC Silver titles, in that order.
The 29-year-old Scot has built up an impressive resume with wins over 9-0 Jacob Robinson, James Beech Jnr, Raza Hamza, 13-0 Zak Miller, Francesco Grandelli, and former British and European champion Lee McGregor.
The 30-year-old visitor from Spain also holds a points win over Francesco Grandelli, as well as an impressive scalp over 20-0-2 Mauro Forte.
Both boxers are unbeaten with draws on their records and eight KOs each. They couldn’t be split six months ago, so which one will make the necessary changes to triumph in the rematch? Let’s take a look and see.
Collins was in the driving seat for the first five rounds, which is when the fight switched from a tactical match to a scrappy shootout. It’s perhaps a little disrespectful to both boxers to say that Collins allowed Lorente back into the contest by dropping his discipline from midway. It appears that he just got rid of his gameplan in favour of a tear-up.
I read that he has been sparring Mark Magsayo in LA and a few other top fighters in preparation for this rematch. He also admits to making mistakes, particularly that he went looking for the knockout and overloading. He also referred back to his fourth-round knockout of Lee McGregor, reflecting on his patience and composure to pick his shots in a calculated way to achieve the stoppage.
If he comes into this contest with those slight adjustments, to keep his cool and not go looking for the knockout, then he should start brightly again, but remain in control of the contest this time. I believe that Collins is still improving, but Lorente hasn’t won in 16 months now, therefore I’m picking the home fighter to put in an enhanced performance to edge this one on points.
Prediction: Collins to win
Extra Tip: Collins to win by Decision
Bonus Tip: Alycia Baumgardner (17-1, 7 KOs) to retain her IBF and WBO world super-featherweight titles against Bo Mi Re Shin (19-3-3, 10 KOs) on the same night in New York. “The Bomb” Baumgardner hasn’t lost in seven years and has scalped the likes of Terri Harper and Mikaela Mayer in recent fights, and her South Korean opponent has lost twice in her last six.
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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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