In less than 48 hours something remarkable will have happened. For the first time in history, one of Dmitry Bivol or Gilberto Ramirez will be defeated.
There are few more exciting events than two undefeated boxers stepping into the ring together and that’s exactly what will happen this Saturday night at the Etihad Arena in Dubai. Across their careers, Russia’s Dmitry Bivol and Mexico’s Gilberto Ramirez have accrued 64 wins between them without a single loss or draw. That ends this weekend.
We look at all the best bets to make on this fight with odds from bookmaker William Hill.
※ Current Odds Date & Time: November 4th 11:00 A.M. (EST)
Outright odds for winning this fight are heavily in favour of Dmitry Bivol with odds of 1.28 compared to 4.33.
While Bivol has fought in less than half the amount of fights than his opponent Ramirez, there are several factors contributing to these odds. Firstly, Bivol is a light heavyweight through and through. He has fought in this division the majority of his career and has held the WBA World Light Heavyweight Title since 2016 when he beat Felix Valera. Since then, Bivol has dominated challengers in successfully defending the belt 12 times in the last six years, including an impressive win over the infamous Canelo Alvarez earlier this year.
Ramirez, on the other hand, is taking a step up. The lion’s share of the Mexican’s career has been spent fighting as a super middleweight with the 31-year-old being the first Mexican to hold the WBO Super Middleweight Title. Only in 2019 did Ramirez make the step up to light heavyweight and while he has looked tidy since then, Bivol is a cut above the boxers he’s faced so far.
※ Current Odds Date & Time: November 4th 11:00 A.M. (EST)
Drilling into these odds deeper, we can see that William Hill has the most likely method of victory overwhelmingly as a Bivol win on points. This stands at 1.57, while the next most likely result is way back at 5.00 for a Bivol knockout. Ramirez is paying 7.00 for a win on points or 8.00 for a knockout.
The odds fall this way because while Bivol has been dominant in his career so far, he hasn’t knocked out an opponent since early 2018. The last seven times Bivol has fought, the fight has gone the distance. Winning on points is an approach that Bivol has got down to a fine art and it looks likely he’ll follow the same blueprint on Saturday.
However, the Russian does have knockout power in him with 11 finishes to his name. Perhaps it’s time he showcased that again and a bet on Bivol winning by knockout would bring a healthy 5.00 return.
