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Anthony Cacace vs Leigh Wood Fight Preview

“The Apache” Anthony Cacace (23-1, 8 KOs) defends his IBO World super-featherweight title to former two-time world champion Leigh Wood (28-3, 20 KOs) at the Nottingham Arena, live on DAZN.

The boxer from Belfast, Cacace, is currently on an eight-fight win streak and unbeaten in almost eight years. The 36-year-old won his IBO belt from the defending champion Michael Magnesi in September 2022.

The southpaw defended the belt, once belonging to Jeff Mayweather, three times, to Polishman Damian Wrzesinski, Welsh wizard Joe Cordina, and two-time world champion Josh Warrington.

In his eighth-round knockout win over Cordina, he ripped the IBF title away from the unbeaten two-time titlist, in what was regarded as a major upset on the night.

Due to the IBF’s strict rules, they wouldn’t sanction their former champion Warrington as a challenger and Cacace relinquished the belt soon after to chase the biggest fights and not be tied to their mandatory rules.

And this next fight is a huge UK showdown!

Trained by Ben Davison, Leigh Wood is a former two-time world featherweight champion. The Nottingham man won his WBA featherweight strap against Can Xu in 2021, then defended it in dramatic fashion to Michael Conlan in 2022, winning via 12th-round knockout. Despite being down on the cards and down on the canvas in the first round, he somehow pulled off the impossible and knocked the former Olympian out of the ring with less than 90 seconds to go.

In 2023, he was upset by the hard-hitting Mexican, Mauricio Lara, who stopped Wood in the seventh after a landing an hellacious left hook to the chin. Just three months later, he bravely went straight back into the rematch and made the changes needed to impressively win back his WBA belt via unanimous decision.

Then, he defended it to Josh Warrington via seventh-round knockout, despite being behind on the cards.

Cacace stands at 5’10” with a 71” reach, which is far superior to the 5’7” Wood with his 67” reach, who is coming up a division.

Cacace’s hooks are potent, many of his sparring partners have named him the hardest puncher they have shared the ring with, despite his misleading 34.78% KO ratio.

Switch-hitter Wood can also bang! And he’s got the numbers to back it up. All but one of his last nine victories have come by knockout.

Both boxers put their punches together well and they can each be caught, as they leave their arms lowered at times. If they decide to stand and trade, there are going to be some big shots consumed by both men.

This IBO world title fight could well be a modern-day classic, like what Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn delivered only a two weeks prior.

Anthony Cacace vs Leigh Wood Prediction

The danger of Wood’s heavy hands will be present throughout the entire 12-rounds. He has as much chance of scoring a knockdown as Cacace has.

If both these boxers decided to trade from the opening bell, then this could be a frenzied affair, finishing early. Wood’s defence can be leaky, so I expect him to take some big shots, but then he also has the skill to outbox Cacace from range despite the reach deficit.

Cacace can leap into his big hooks, a bit like Mauricio Lara did in their first fight, which ended inside seven rounds. Cacace could do the same as the Mexican and land one of his big, rangy hooks accurately on Wood’s chin, but its also his powerful uppercuts from in close that will pose a threat too. But then Wood has just as much chance of landing one of his huge counter-hooks.

It’s so difficult to call, but Cacace is more experienced at the weight and is the defending champion, who hasn’t lost in eight years. He has the better momentum going into this contest, which could just give him the upper hand in what I view as a 50-50 contest.

Prediction: Cacace to win, either on points or via KO in rounds 7-12.

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How To Bet On Boxing

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.

Outright / To Win Fight

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.

Fight Outcome / Method of Victory

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:

• By KO (knockout), TKO (tecnhical knockout) or DQ (opponent disqualified).
• By Decision (on points) or Technical Decision.

So because there are more possible outcomes in this market, the odds are higher than just the outright win market.

Round Betting

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.

To Go The Distance

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:

• Are the fighters evenly matched?
• Do they have a reputation for durability and rarely having been stopped in the past?
• If there is a favourite, is he/she an aggressive boxer or does he/she prefer to wear their opponent down?
• How many of their previous fights have gone the distance?

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.

Total Rounds Over/Under

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:

• If you think the fight will last for 3 rounds or less, you would bet on Under.
• If you think it will last for 4 rounds or more, you would be on Over.

You will find that similar markets are available for Over/under 4.5, Over/Under 5.5, Over/Under 6.5 etc.

Where To Get The Best Odds On Boxing

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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