Boxing sometimes gets criticized for fights where the best are not fighting the best, and that criticism is often valid. Not this weekend. In one of the sport’s major fights for the first half of 2019, megastar Canelo Alvarez (51-1-2; 35 KO) faces Daniel Jacobs (35-2; 29 KO) in a Middleweight unification fight. Here are the odds, courtesy of OddsShark:
Canelo Alvarez -500
Daniel Jacobs +350Not a surprise that Canelo is the favorite, but those are wider odds than I would have guessed. And interestingly, they’ve grown wider as the fight has drawn near, starting at -270 to +192.