Boxing in Morocco: markets, rounds and how a fight bet settles
A professional boxing bout is set over an even number of rounds, four at the fewest and twelve at the most under commission rules such as Ontario's, and each round runs three minutes with a one-minute break. Each round is scored by three judges under the 10 Point Must System, while the referee alone may stop the contest, as laid down in the Unified Rules of Boxing that the Association of Boxing Commissions (ABC) publishes. The fight ends with a knockout, a technical knockout, a disqualification or, after the final bell, the judges' scorecards.
Who writes the rules: the ABC, the WBC, the WBA, the IBF and the WBO
Professional boxing has no single worldwide rulebook. Most North American commissions follow the ABC's Unified Rules, Ontario's keeping rules of its own, and each of the four major sanctioning bodies, the WBC (World Boxing Council), the WBA (World Boxing Association), the IBF (International Boxing Federation) and the WBO (World Boxing Organization), publishes its own regulations for the fights it sanctions and awards its own world belt in every weight class. Belts below world level exist as well, the British and Commonwealth titles among them, and some bodies also name interim champions.
Distance: a WBC championship fight is twelve rounds of three minutes, as is an IBF championship or elimination bout; a WBO champion defends the title in a twelve-round fight; WBA-sanctioned bouts run ten or twelve rounds.
Knockdowns: under the ABC, WBC and IBF rules a mandatory eight count follows each one, there is neither a standing eight count nor a three-knockdown rule, and the bell saves nobody in any round; the WBA, by contrast, treats three knockdowns in the same round as an automatic knockout. A boxer knocked out of the ring gets a twenty-second count under the ABC, WBC and WBA rules, and a boxer who has not risen when the referee reaches ten is counted out.
Injuries from a fair punch: if the damage is severe enough to end the fight, the injured boxer loses by TKO.
Intentional fouls: a foul that forces an immediate stoppage means a loss by disqualification for the offender; when the bout continues, the offender loses two points.
Accidental fouls: when the injury stops the bout before four completed rounds, the ABC and the IBF call it a no decision, whereas the WBA calls it a technical draw; after that threshold the scorecards decide, and the boxer ahead wins by technical decision. The WBC draws the same line at the start of the fifth round.
What a draw does to a bet: the markets and section 10.8 of the site rules
On the site, boxing bets settle under section 10.8 «Boxing, Martial Arts» of the betting rules; UFC has its own section 10.9, and the two count rounds differently. The table pairs the market labels shown on a fight page with the way each market is settled.
Market on the fight page | How it settles |
|---|---|
1X2 (W1, X, W2) | Three outcomes; X stands for a draw, which the judges declare by scoring the bout level at the end of the final round, and W1 and W2 then lose |
Win (2Way) | Two outcomes only; a draw returns both W1 and W2 at odds of 1 |
Double Chance (1X, 12, 2X) | Two results in one pick; 1X and 2X pair a boxer with the draw, while 12 means either boxer wins, the draw excluded |
Total (Over / Under rounds) | Only completed rounds count; a bout that goes the distance over twelve rounds counts as twelve |
Win In Round, Points Victory, Draw Or Technical Draw | W1 or W2 in a given round means a win inside the distance in that round; Points Victory is a winner named by the judges after the last round |
A win for W1 or W2 covers points victory, knockout, technical knockout, technical decision and disqualification or refusal (item 7). A technical draw on a bout stopped early is not described separately in section 10.8; the label «Draw Or Technical Draw» appears only in the Win In Round group. On a «Total 7.5», Over wins once the bout goes past the end of round eight, Under wins if it is stopped in round eight or earlier; if the fight is stopped partway through round eight, only seven rounds have been completed. Should the scheduled number of rounds change, outcome bets stand and the round total settles at odds of 1. A no contest, or a stoppage before a winner has been determined, voids all bets unless the result bet on has already been decided. If one of the two named boxers is replaced, the general rules cancel every bet on the fight, and a boxer who pulls out before the opening bell makes the bets on him void.
Section 10.8 also provides for a points-decision handicap, settled on the final scorecards unless a boxer wins inside the distance, in which case his backers win regardless of the handicap, and for total knockdowns, where every knockdown counts, including the one followed by a knockout. Win By TD stands for a stoppage through injury with the result read from the judges' cards for an incomplete number of rounds.
One group called Fights: how the boxing line is laid out
1xBet keeps every boxing bout in the pre-match line within a single group, «Fights», without splitting them by sanctioning body, country or weight class. The list of upcoming boxing fights fills up ahead of a big card and empties again once the verdicts are in, and a title bout carries a label naming the belt at stake, a world title by the WBO or the WBC for instance. The set of markets depends on the bout.
Moroccan boxing: Olympic bronze and two amateur world titles
Olympic boxing is a separate discipline: per the NBC Olympics guide, every bout lasts three rounds of three minutes, five judges score it, and the win is unanimous when all five agree. Morocco's record on that stage is four Olympic medals, all bronze: Abdelhak Achik at Seoul 1988, the country's first boxing medal, his brother Mohammed Achik at Barcelona 1992, Tahar Tamsamani at Sydney 2000 and Mohammed Rabii at Rio 2016. Before Rio, Rabii, a boxer from Casablanca, had won welterweight (69 kg) gold at the 2015 World Championships in Doha; after the Games he turned professional. In March 2023 Khadija El Mardi took the women's heavyweight (+81 kg) title at the amateur World Championships in New Delhi. The sport's governing body in the country is the Royal Moroccan Boxing Federation (Fédération Royale Marocaine de Boxe).
Pre-match and live boxing, with an account in dirhams
Everything above concerns bets placed before the first bell, in the Line, where boxing sits among every sport open for pre-match betting.
Bets placed once a bout is under way belong to boxing in the Live section, where markets may appear after the first bell.
A player in Morocco holds the account in Moroccan dirhams (MAD).