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Betting on boxing is an incredibly fun and rewarding activity.  In some ways, boxing is arguably even more intense than team sports, because it has that deeply personal aspect to it.  Few things are more thrilling than a one-on-one encounter between two great fighters.  If you have been following boxing, there is a good chance that you know the fighter’s styles and abilities intimately.  This places you in a perfect position to place a wager and reap a financial reward as well as an emotional one when your champion wins the match.

You would think that betting on boxing would be simple—that it couldn’t get any simpler.  Two men walk into a ring and start throwing punches.  Eventually, one of them will beat the other.  How could betting on that be complicated?  All too often, though, the decisions made in boxing matches come from the judges.  Not all fights are won through knockouts.  Many are decided based on points.  Still others are decided by factors that sadly have nothing to do with the skill of the fighters.  I will talk more about that in just a moment.

Maybe you have only ever placed wagers online, or perhaps you have only ever dealt with local bookies in the past.  Either way, if you are thinking about trying something new, you may wonder about the differences between betting online and betting offline.  What are the unique considerations?  What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of each? 

We often think in terms of productivity quotas, especially when it comes to making money.  Sports betting is not a gig that pays hourly; it pays based on how many bets you actually win.  You may even have already sat down and crunched numbers and determined that you would need to place X bets a year at your current win percentage to make X amount of money.