Jaw Dropping Action with UFC Betting at Spin Sports

For those of us who grew up with the rigidity of boxing or the over-the-top theatrics of World Wrestling Entertainment, the grittiness and brutality of MMA fighting can be a shock. But that hasn’t stopped it from becoming one of the most popular forms of full-contact combat sport in the world, attracting TV and pay-per-view audiences of several million in the past few years. It can be no surprise then that UFC betting has also surged in popularity given the excitement and adrenaline surrounding the sport.

Spin Sports India is definitely a contender when it comes to UFC betting online, offering punters some of the best odds in the online gambling world. If you’re one of the many people who’d like to bet on UFC matches, at Spin Sports India you can pick from a range of weight classes (eight for men, four for women) and types of bets. Spin Sports India offers customers everything from traditional moneyline and over/under bets to more offbeat UFC-specific prop bets like method of victory, whether a fight will go the distance and need a judge’s verdict, what round it’ll end in or even how much time it will take.

The excitement of MMA and UFC betting

Before we talk about the sport’s premier championship, let’s start with what MMA – mixed martial arts – is. As the name suggests, MMA fighters use techniques from a variety of combat sports (Brazilian jiu-jitsu, wrestling, Muay Thai, karate, kickboxing, capoeira, kung fu, boxing, and judo, among others) to defeat their opponents. UFC fights last three rounds for a normal bout, and five rounds for championships and main event bouts. Each bout is five minutes long, and there’s a one-minute break between each bout. Fighters win either with a straight knockout, their opponent tapping out, or – if the fight ‘goes the distance’ aka lasts the full time limit – via a judge’s decision.

While UFC bouts were initially no-holds-barred with very few rules, safety concerns and legislative action means that tournaments nowadays have to follow the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts, which aims to keep the sport’s grittiness while ensuring the safety of participants.

The UFC – Ultimate Fighting Championship – is the world’s most well-known MMA promoter, as well as its most popular, with a pay-per-view audience that rivals that of traditional WWE.

Unlike other sports, mixed martial artists compete not in tournaments but in events. Each event comprises of a set of fights, with bouts between participants in the same weight class. Usually, there will be one bout known as the ‘headline’ bout. This bout tends to be the most anticipated bout or have the best-known players, and is used to attract sponsors and viewers for the other bouts in the same event. Fighters move up and down the rankings depending on their performances in a given fight.

While most UFC fights are between male competitors, there is a small but growing contingent of female MMA fighters. Although the rounds in women’s UFC fights are the same length as the men’s (five minutes each), there are only four weight classes in women’s UFC events, as opposed to eight for the men.

Although many events are pay-per-view, UFC Fight Nights are not. Fight Nights are events of up to twelve bouts, often with a five-round headliner, and the remaining matches split between preliminary and main card events. Fight Nights are a win-win proposition for viewer and fighter alike; they offer up-and-coming fighters a bigger platform for their skills and the chance to move up to better-paying pay-per-view events. 

With an average of forty UFC events a year, and multiple bouts per event, there’s no shortage of matches to bet on for anyone interested in MMA betting.

There are a wide variety of bets you can choose to make when it comes to UFC bouts. You can make a moneyline bet, where you pick a winner, a round over/under bet, where you bet on whether the bout will go over or under a given number of rounds, or one of a variety of proposition. You can also make parley bets, where you bet on the winner of several different bouts. If all of your picks win, you win the bet, but if even one loses, so do you.

MMA bouts are hard and fast and things can change in a split second – which is why Spin Sports India offers its customers the chance to bet on live matches with In-Play. And thanks to a dedicated In-Play section with a Live Odds tracker, giving punters real-time odds so they can change their bets as the game changes.

Don’t feel like a fight? Spin Sports India also has esports, a live dealer, and even an online casino.