ML: 1.80 - for Beterbiev, 1.94 for Bivol. And as per poll, our boxing fans here knows their stuff about these fighters and so they lean towards Beterbiev as well.
So yes, it's a even fight for this two Russians, and just like what everyone says, gonna be close and difficult to chose at least for now.
But the fight is still far, and there could be a lot of factors that might swayed us as to who is going to be our bet on this fight.
I'm not seeing a wild swing on the odds though, Beterbiev will be the favorite based on his knockout percentage and Bivol knows that. It might be close though and as we see, for boxing fans, gonna be hard to pick the winner as both as capable to pull, it's just either KO by Beterbiev or the strength of Bivol to carry him all the way to championship rounds and then into the full 12 rounds. And with that, the this might be the closest fight that we can see for this year. We see Ryan being a huge underdog against Haney, and all other fights that we think is close, the odds maker think otherwise. But not in this case, even them knows that it could be as close as a 50/50 match.
Based on the betting odds, yes it's a 50/50 match. I believe we will not have a hard time putting our bet as the odds are very competitive, we can get 1.90 on either boxer, so we just have to determine now on who we will think will win. As for majority of us here, we are thinking that Beterbiev will win because he is the heavy punches, all wins are in KO, who would not bet on that.
I hope the bookies are not mistaken with the betting odds as this fight is obviously for Beterbiev, although both are undefeated, they are champions but it's nice to bet on a fighter that we think could anytime finish his opponent. The only bet I find more appealing is Beterbiev winning via KO, but maybe it could be the same with his current betting odds now.
I don't think that bookies will be wrong with that odds, as mostly crypto related sports bookies get their odds from the odd makers in Las Vegas itself. And those odd makers really are the top of the game in boxing. So maybe they have a lot of factors that they look up before coming with this odds. Bivol's win against Canelo, which he is the huge underdog and then he win is one of them. And then maybe his age.
But for boxing fans, in which a boxer with that high ko percentage? we will go and bet them. That ML is already very appealing, but if we want bigger odds then we will see what will be for a KO. So far I haven't seen it yet, it was only ML that is presented. But this is still very far and so we will just have to wait, just like any other boxing match, crypto sports bookies are somewhat slow listing their odds for other betting options.