Boxing bet predictors love short-cuts and secrets that quickly give one an edge. That’s usually why they come to me.
However, sometimes people want to know where they can find data back of this so they might do their own foundational research. So, I now present three works that comprise Master Texts. They are stand-alone works, but I use them together.
First-up is Kenny Weldon’s You Can Learn to Box DVDs. This is “The System.” It is also rumored to be the best-selling boxing series in history.
For many years, parents in Galena Park, Texas could take their little kids into the local community center to learn to box. This happens throughout the world.
The difference in Galena Park is that THESE kids stand a decent chance of becoming National Amateur Champions.
How can this be? A little chronicle explains. Factually, the history of the game works like this: little boxing clubs sprouted up all over North America in the first half of the 20th century. People learned boxing and applied it in little clubs in every city in the country. It was a survival action for the participants, entertainment for the crowds, and as mainstay an activity in America as little league baseball games are now. This is not surprising considering the top sports were prizefighting, horse racing and baseball.
To facilitate this movement took thousands of more boxers than we have now. The average American could throw a fast, hard punch. Militaries all over the world knew this, and avoided trading shots with the guys from the country that openly received immigrants from all over the world.
Gyms were flooded with aspiring fighters. The best trainers saw their facilities become famous. Even legendary.
Then came the 1950s, and television. Now people could sit at home with their families, hold onto their coins and watch the best fighters from around the world.
The little fight cards from around the world can’t pay for their venues without paying customers. Almost overnight most of them are extinct. Fighters on the fringe find other ways to make a few extra bucks. Most gymnasium boxing programs cease to exist.
With fewer clubs there is greater competition for venues. Still, the best trainers still managed to grow famous facilities.
Their programs produce consistent winners. It is not by chance. Over the last few decades there have been a few dominant programs. The most famous amateur program in the world is the Cuban team. This little island dominates.
The early 1980s boasted the Kronk gym in Detroit, Michigan. It was led by Emmanuel Stewart, who is now best known for being an HBO announcer on their big-fight telecasts.
Make no mistake, Kenny Weldon’s program is a franchise operation on DVD, and I have it all at my disposal with the touch of a remote. Believe it or not, you can, too.
There are 8 volumes. Volumes 1-4 are about fundamentals, and more.
The second series, volumes 5-8, focus on how to use the basics to defeat four specific style types, as well as listing 3 examples of athletes who embody these characteristics.
Just understanding this material will let you understand how to classify any fighter with similar characteristics.
DVD 5 starts with the Puncher. Rocky Marciano is the listed example.
DVD 6 is next. It centers on the boxer (also called a runner). Muhammad Ali is the example.
DVD 7 focuses on the specifics of handling the left-hander. Though no specific athlete is listed, these characteristics manifest themselves in the style used by Manny Pacquaio.
DVD 8 is the tactics explaining how to deal with the fighter referred to as The Fighter. Joe Frazier is listed as the example.
Watching these DVDs puts you behind the scenes of a world-class program.
There are many good boxing DVDs. There are no substitutes to the Weldon system.
P.S. Why would anyone need another set of DVDs if Weldon’s program is great?
Specifically, Weldon will give you the form and the moves. A boxing enthusiast who follows this system at all times can expect to pick correctly at least 70% of the time. They are usually only defeated by one of their own kind, or an intuitive fighter (also known as an improvisational fighter). These are fighters with unusual athletic ability and (usually) fast reflexes.
To conclude, great technique beats athletic ability. However, if both athletes have technique, the superior athlete usually prevails.
Boxing bet predictors are not the public. We develop the experience to see the political landscape without ignorance and delusion. We are not afforded ignorance or innocence.
We are, simply, the ones prepared to profit in every market.
So lets address it—crooked officials, home-town decisions, and the other fauna and flora that litter the landscape of the world’s most startling sport.
Let me paint you a picture.
A man walks into a town with a wad of cash and a traveling show. He’s prepared to make a presentation in that town.
The town gets a cut of course, and outside revenue from visiting sightseers. The show comes with some exposure for the area. Maybe a viewer picks the place to open their business there instead of at the identical little place down the road.
That’s not all. The man with the money says to the mayor that if the event goes smoothly, there may be further shows. That’s exciting to a town. Economically boosting. Maybe it’s high profile enough to swing an election for, say, mayor or sheriff.
There’s another person in this scenario; a man in this town. He makes about $80 a day. On event day, however, he’s going to make $200 extra. He’s going to wear a tux and look like a big shot in front of his neighbors and maybe his boss. He’s going to be a judge, or maybe a referee. Maybe it will move him up the ladder toward that promotion he’s been pursuing.
There is also the chance that there might be another show in a few months. That would really help with Christmas, or a new transmission in the truck. Or anything else.
Event night comes. The money man brings in an undefeated fighter he is developing. His opponent is from the city. A few years ago the guy was a decent prospect. Since then he has fallen on hard times. But not tonight. Tonight his experience has served him well. He fights the young prospect to a standstill.
So, boxing bet predictors, who wins the decision? Is it the journeyman from out of town, or the money man’s prospect?
You already know the answer.
This is the anatomy of corruption and how it often manifests. It’s not always the gangster making someone an offer they can’t refuse. Often, it is just about the agenda of survival.
By the way, this doesn’t always happen by a decision in a fight. Sometimes it’s a stoppage that happens a little too early, or a hurt fighter given too many chances to recover. It may even involve a foul.
Regardless of the specifics, a boxing bet predictor wants to know which of the fighters in a card are being marketed by the show promoter (the money man). There are ways to get the intel on this, and other things.
Boxing bet predictors are about to be let in on the cloak-and-dagger, spy vs spy element of the giant corporate government of international boxing. Here be the inner workings, folks; declassified.
But first, I will assert that boxing decisions are often the low point of professional sports. Some decisions, or stoppages, don’t look controversial so much as, well, arranged.
Let’s start with the power curve, the fight promoters.
How powerful are promoters? In 1987, I remember the-then undisputed king of boxing, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, right after losing a razor-thin decision to rival Sugar Ray Leonard.
Hagler had been the man. Now he was an ex-champion, who would never fight again.
Hagler sat down with the event promoter, Bob Arum, to grant post-fight interviews. He then turned his head toward Arum, and called him something. He called him “boss.” It was an apt title. Promoters rule the game.
How can this be? It’s best understood by explaining the function of the promoter. Boxing promoters function much like music promoters, so I’ll use them for comparison.
Music promoters are investors looking for potential attractions. Attractions draw in money from the public so the organization can pay its’ bills and make a profit. These attractions have to be developed.
Here is how things get done. Some artist or band appears on some local stage and gets noticed. More gigs allow the act to season. With talent and preparation comes luck. The luck is the connection to a major promoter. This promoter has the connections to allow the act to progress in bigger and bigger venues.
After nurturing the act along, often funding it in a myriad of different ways, the act begins to pay back the investment. For the promoter, the gamble/investment is beginning to pay off. It is time to nurture and protect the cash cow, squeeze the profits while the act is at the top. When the act is no longer at the top, the promoter looks to dump the act as soon and cheaply as possible.
Any perception of morality or fairness is just that, a perception. It is a business only. The human element doesn’t exist any more than it would in the buying or selling of grain.
Now that you understand the music promoter you almost understand the boxing promoter. Here are the rest of the pieces.
Boxing lives off the perception of invincibility to a large degree. This is why 5,000 people don’t show up to watch a bar fight. A loss for a star or developing phenom is bad for business. It reduces return on investment for the promoter and his backers. It is for this reason that things generally work out for the fighter who has a contract with the boss.
I know these words may seem harsh, but a boxing bet predictor makes picks based upon informational awareness, not hype.
A boxing bettor or fight viewer may see over half a dozen different title belts during the course of a season on any major boxing network. Each belt is marketed as some sort of a championship. They have in turn, their own rating system.
It is not uncommon for there to be four “World Champions” per division at any one time. This is strange considering all four champions live and compete on the same one planet.
Those close to the sport have utilized an “independent” rating source, The Ring Magazine. Recently, Oscar De La Hoya bought The Ring Magazine. De La Hoya is the new Titan in boxing promotion. Though the magazine seems promotionally uncorrupted thus far, can his interests not creep their way into the ratings eventually?
So, how do boxing bet predictors separate champions from fake champions? It’s really no big deal. Once you understand the actual structure of this field you will never be confused again.
Let’s start with the secret of what the governing bodies of this sport really are: Franchises. This is what they are and how they work.
Don’t recognize these as 1) the World Boxing Association(WBA), 2) the World Boxing Council(WBC), 3) the International Boxing Federation(IBF), and 4) the World Boxing Organization(WBO)*. Instead, regard them as McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King and Subway. These companies charge for their services and compete for market share.
Rarely do you see a boxer representing more than one franchise at a time. Put in perspective, have you ever seen Ronald McDonald in a Subway restaurant?
In separating “Champion” from “Champion” more clarification is needed. The next thing to know is that at this point in time the only “World Boxing Champions” are currently wearing the title belt of The Ring Magazine. These are the kings of the sport. Period. They are also the only titlists not paying a franchise fee to wear a belt every time they step in the ring.
We will now make comparisons to other sports. Sports like baseball have a major league and minor league. The same is true of boxing. At this moment, the only major league franchises are the ones listed above. The reason the WBO is given an asterisk is that they don’t completely belong, but occasionally have a big name fighter guest star in their organization.
In conclusion, don’t be misled by these groups, or any other, selling you on a bout being held to determine a “Intercontenental-Super-Emperor-Interim-Universal-Champion.” It is not a Championship fight.
The first point upon which I’m going to hit (pun intended) is the most obvious.
Fight sports have fewer variables to consider than any team sport. Simply, there are fewer variables because there are fewer players to consider when evaluating.
A Fight-Sport athlete is a one-person team. Offence, defence and special teams all exist within a solitary unit. You can consider two teams by evaluating two people.
Contrast this with American football. Eleven players are on the field at all times from both sides. As well, there are back-up athletes on the sidelines, awaiting their turn to play.
Every team sport has the same issue.
My horse-racing colleagues are up-in-arms at this declaration, feeling falsely cast. Ladies and gentlemen, no offense intended. I would ask you, when was the last time a horse or dog race consisted of only two athletes? Tracks do not sponsor such events.
No, two athlete contests reduce what boxing bet predictors must consider when deciding a victor. Either one fighter will win, or lose. It’s that simple but for the odd draw (or equivalent).
The final conclusion drawn is that we, the boxing bet predictors, have the unusual advantage of addressing all the key considerations of an event within two athletes.
Remember, as a boxing bet predictor, you shall exploit the obvious mathematical advantages you have over your peers from other sports.
Anyone reading this blog should be able to successfully predict three-out-of-four matches within the coming months.
We are going to start with a bold declaration: the fighting sports are easier to predict than most sports.
Now, most would take issue with the statement.
Anyone old enough to remember heavyweight boxing in the early 1970’s recall’s that both Joe Frazier and Ken Norton bested Muhammad Ali during their initial encounters.
Shortly after, Frazier and Norton were ground into guava by a young George Foreman, who in turn, was convincingly defeated by Ali.
This perplexing pattern repeats itself in boxing, leading many to consider boxing utterly unpredictable.
Those who more closely follow organized fist-fighting explain the phenomenon by saying “styles make fights.”
Advanced students of the game live the application of that statement to one degree or another. They are dependent upon it, yet seem incapable of perfecting its’ applications into unified results.
Except for a few.
We are going to take a journey to the core of boxing, with the purpose and intention of turning the students of these posts into the top 1% of boxing bet predictors.
Becoming a boxing bet predictor isn’t about gambling—it’s about being the one who knows what is going to happen.
First-up is Kenny Weldon’s You Can Learn to Box DVDs. This is “The System.” It is also rumored to be the best-selling boxing series in history.
