Joshua vs Breazeale Odds For Saturday – Big time boxing hits the O2 Arena in London this Saturday, June 25th, as promoter Eddie Hearn is putting on a huge card that sees the featured fights airing on Sky Box Office in the UK and on Showtime in the United States.
The main event is the highly anticipated first IBF world heavyweight title defense for Anthony Joshua (16-0, 16 KOs) as he faces the challenge of Dominic Breazeale (17-0, 15 KOs).
Joshua captured the world title on April 9th when he scored an easy 2nd round stoppage over American Charles Martin. Despite a short 4-year pro career, Joshua is one of boxing’s biggest stars already. Before turning pro, Joshua captured an Olympic gold medal at the London Olympic games so he has thoroughly captured the imagination of the London crowd. For starters, Breazeale will be walking into the lion’s den for this fight. In April, Martin appeared frozen, and the raucous London atmosphere may have had something to do with that.
Breazeale also went to the 2012 Olympics representing the USA, but his Olympic record reads “one and done” as he was eliminated in his opening fight. Prior to that he was a football quarterback and is considered athletic for his size. And as for size, he will have a slight height and reach advantage over Joshua heading into the fight. Breazeale’s advantages end there, as the sport books have Joshua a massive favorite. The over/under line is set at 3 1/2, so you see Joshua is expected to get Breazeale out of there quickly. For his part, Joshua said in a media call earlier this week that the fight “can’t go past four rounds.”
Listen to the Anthony Joshua vs Dominic Breazeale conference call at The Boxing Channel. The call took place Monday June 20th and runs 42 minutes.
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The co-feature comes in the 168-pound category and it matches up two of England’s most popular fighters when George Groves takes on Martin Murray. The line at the sports books for this fight is the most competitive one being offered, as both men really need a win. Murray is 33-3-1 overall in his career and he has been busy, going 4-1 in the last year after a February of 2015 loss to Gennady Golovkin. The other loss, to Arthur Abraham, was via close split decision for the WBO version of the world belt. Groves is 2-0 since his September of 2015 loss to Badou Jack with the IBF world belt on the line. Both men are eager to stay in the world title picture. The fight is for Groves’ WBA International belt, which he is defending for the first time.
Joshua vs Breazeale Odds For Saturday
Below are the current lines losted at the sports books. Check back later in the week for more lines from this card and do not forget to check out our Talk ‘n’ Shoot video blog on the card as well.
Super Heavyweight 12 rounds –
Dominic Breazeale +2000 o3½ +310
Anthony Joshua -4000 u3½ -400
Super Middlewweight 12 rounds –
Martin Murray +240 o9½ -300
George Groves -280 u9½ +220
Super Lightweight 12 rounds –
Andrea Scarpa +365
John Wayne Hibbert -460
Middlewweight 12 rounds –
Tom Doran +1400
Chris Eubank Jnr -2500
Heavyweight 6 rounds –
Cyril Leonet +1200
Dillian Whyte -2250
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Joshua vs Breazeale Odds For Saturday
