Joshua a clear betting favourite to beat Ruiz

Have the Vegas casinos got odds yet?

Could easily see them having Ruiz closer to 5/4

 

UK betting odds will have AJ as short because almost all the money will be going on him

US betting odds will have Ruiz short or the same as AJ, because alot of people will be betting on Ruiz.

Odds in this case are about protecting potential losses, based on geographical betting preferences.

It is a difficult one to call given the first fight. But as a neutral observer I favour AJ to win a decision in the rematch. But often rematches result in the same result as the first fight.

I doubt Ruiz makes the mistake of coming in very light in the rematch- I think this is some form of psychology he is looking to play on AJ.

 

If you scroll down on here the pie chart shows you where the money is going. It doesn’t tell you exact percentage but it looks to me like 55% Ruiz 5-10% Draw and 35-40% backing Joshua so imagine Ruiz’s odds will shorten somewhat by fight night.

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Get the bets in on a Ruiz stoppage early, as those odds are bound to shorten

 

Ruiz was 26.0 in the first fight and no one wanted to back him. He's now 3.2 in the rematch and it seems everyone wants to back him.

 

A lot of big heavyweight upsets don’t necessarily result in the same decision though. Rematches of close fights can often mean the favourite first time wins again, but I’d say more often than not when a guy who was Joshua’s odds loses the first they win the second. Lewis Rahman springs to mind.

 

At no point ever, in his entire career has Ruiz been 25/1 to win

 

Yeah, but AJ wasn’t caught by a Hail Mary from nowhere and splattered on the canvas, he was outthought and outfought. He got battered.

I’d prefer AJ to win but my head says this has more in common with Price vs Thompson than Lewis vs Rahman.

I’m putting a cheeky £25 on Ruiz by KO/TKO/DQ

 

Bet £10?

 

Been doing a lot of driving this week and have exhausted the podcasts to the point where I’ve just listened to the Toe to Toe Sky Sports pod...Christ on a bike. Andy Scott said that Ruiz could have thrown that same shot a hundred times and not hurt Joshua like he did in that fight, **** off you massive whopper. How biased is that? Yet he totally ignores the fact that both Whyte and Klitschko hurt Joshua big time with the left hook. It’s not a 100 to 1 shot, it’s a weakness in Joshua’s defence that fighters have tried to exploit.

 

Ruiz will win comfortably again for me .

 

Lots was said about Ruiz's "lucky" punch to AJ's top of head which had AJ losing equilibrium. I am translating "losing equilibrium" to "got hit hard in the head, in a place where it is really quite uncomfortable".

Ruiz did exactly the same to just as tall Dimitrenko. Maybe he is lucky or maybe he is not.