Is boxing the worst sport to bet on?

[Oasisman]

Recently I read that a year ago the Olympic committee cut its ties with the International boxing federation due to corruption and unfair referee placement.

Talking about boxing corruption, it has been happening for quite a while now already.
I don't know if the boxing association have ran out of elite and exciting boxers, because it seems like the current system that they're doing is to have a boxer build up his name, fight bunch a mediocre boxer and become undefeated. I mean they are building a hype around a specific boxer by carefully picking opponents.
Now, I'm not gonna be surprised if a corruption in boxing happens in the Olympics as well.
Boxing was never the same as before, it is more of a business now rather than sports.

[DaNNy001]

Recently I read that a year ago the Olympic committee cut its ties with the International boxing federation due to corruption and unfair referee placement.

Talking about boxing corruption, it has been happening for quite a while now already.
I don't know if the boxing association have ran out of elite and exciting boxers, because it seems like the current system that they're doing is to have a boxer build up his name, fight bunch a mediocre boxer and become undefeated. I mean they are building a hype around a specific boxer by carefully picking opponents.
Now, I'm not gonna be surprised if a corruption in boxing happens in the Olympics as well.
Boxing was never the same as before, it is more of a business now rather than sports.

I could say the same for almost all sports but the thing is that for boxing it's more vivid to see how they are framing everything, it's almost as everything is now stage, telling who and who to fight. I don't know about the level at which the corruption has eaten deep into the system but am certain about one thing which is the fact that betting on boxing games is definitely a NO NO for me.

[justdimin]

It is easy for corruption and match fixing to happen in gambling than in football. I have never thought of this before because I feel that boxing is free from corruption. Just as said by other members, I don't like betting on boxing, but I love to watch the match.

Football is my favorite sport which I always bet on and basketball sometimes. This is because I love these two sports more than boxing and the probability of match fixing on big club matches is very low.

Corruption and match-fixing can be done in any sport as long as there are people from the associations that are ready to take the money and sacrifice the sport for it leaving the fans to suffer because they getting some money in return for ruining the sport. However, those who know a sport very well, have always been following it and watching matches and they know the weaknesses and strengths of each player, maybe such people can be successful in placing their bets in such sports.

When we talk about football or soccer, even that isn't exempted from match-fixing and other things that are used to cheat and make a team win or lose by referees and officials. On lower level leagues and tournaments, there is a lot of match-fixing in football happening as well.

[harapan]

Recently I read that a year ago the Olympic committee cut its ties with the International boxing federation due to corruption and unfair referee placement. It has been a year since and the boxing federation has still to fix these issues. Now boxing is threatened to be completely left off schedule from the Olympics for the first time in the history of modern Olympics!

It really makes you think, if the international body of boxing is so corrupt, can you imagine the corruption that would be going on individually promoted events and closed leagues as the liked of UFC? Makes me think that fighting promotions and especially boxing should be avoided if you want to make bets.

You can read a relevant article about the Olympic news here: https://www.kompas.id/baca/english/2024/04/04/en-tinju-terancam-didepak-dari-olimpiade

Your reasons are quite understood as over the years I watch how opponent becomes enemies after which due to the level of corruption set by the referees but have not really placed more insight on betting in boxing as I feel it's not a fair game but then I would agree to this your statement that it's worse betting on it as let alone watching the sports isn't cool at all.
For me I prefer football and basketball so much and I can place a bet on them and get the fun and excitement when doing so.but in another aspect boxing can be a very thrilling game to place bets if one really know every strategies to ascertain that effect.