How accurate are you in your pre fight predictions?

Im usually right 90% of the time and im not scared to go against the flow. I like to analyse past fights to make my prediction.

 

Apparently 80% of boxing matches go the way they were supposed to. As in the betting favourite takes it 80% of the time.

Id be close to that, probably slightly less. Sometimes I go into this long-winded analysis of why a fighter will win and base it on all this evidence and get it totally wrong. Thats why I love boxing.
But Ive done well or won my fair share of tipping comps.

 

70%

 

I'm better then Atlas!

 

**** poor cause I'm a natural underdog fan, much to the result of my shity lookin' savings account. Example, I knew deep down Diaz was gonna lose to Pac but bet on the kid anyway. The only good thing about bein' an underdog fan is that it's absolutely ****in' awesome when you win. But that's about it.

 

80%

 

I guess 70% is a fairly honest assessment. I picked Margarito over Cotto, Mayweather over Hatton (duh), but picked Hopkins over Calzaghe, and Kessler over Calzaghe.
Prediction in advance: I think if Pavlik fights Hopkins at 175 it's going to be a much, much more difficult fight for him than people are predicting.

 

yeah id say 75% of the time. you have to take your personal preferences for a fighter out of the equation. thats why even though cotto is my dude i expected margo to beat him.

 

First honest response!

The truth is that to fairly guage the accuracy of your predictions you have to throw out the no-brainers. I predicted Floyd Mayweather would beat Arturo Gatti. Am I Nostradamus? Anytime there's a 2 to 1 betting lne and you take the favorite, that doesn't count. If you pick the dog like a lot of people picked Margo over Cotto (hooray for you, I didn't) then that's something to brag about. In THOSE fights, anybody who picks more than 55% can make a KILLING betting on boxing. Fact is, few do.

 

95% but I only tend to remember the times I'm right.

 

If I'm not a fan of the fighters then I'm usually pretty good , but I'm a slave to my emotions and if one of my faves is fighting I find it hard to pick against them !

 

Well said. That's exactly the way most of US (me too) are.

 

I seem to be getting worse. 60%

 

60%