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| The 4 Most Popular Betting
Sports On Earth |
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Online and mobile
betting sites allow enthusiasts to lay wagers on a bewildering variety of
sports. These four, however, attract the most action by far.
The 4 Sports That Attract Most Bets
Worldwide
Most people automatically pick horse racing as the
sport people bet on the most. It is certainly one of the oldest sports in which
wagering is popular; perhaps only track and field events or wrestling can claim
a longer sports-betting pedigree.
However, horse racing turns out to be
lower down the list than expected. It is certainly a more popular sport among
punters worldwide than boxing, golf, basketball or motor racing, although those
sports all make it into the betting Top 10, too.
Here’s how racing
measures up to the top money-spinners in modern sports betting activities that
take place at sportsbooks, online casinos NZ sites and other establishments
across the globe. |
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Racing And Tennis
It turns out,
horse racing is in fact the fourth-most popular sports wager
in the world, ranked by the amount of money bet annually. Most people think
horse racing plays a larger role than it does in reality, because the sport of
kings is so widespread: found on every inhabited continent and enjoyed in most
cultures, horse racing could well be the universal betting
sport.
Another sport enjoyed in almost every culture scattered across
six continents is tennis. It’s more attractive to gamblers than racing,
perhaps because more people can play tennis at a social level. Those with court
experience might fancy themselves more astute at picking winners from among the
professionals.
Unless they are among the rarefied minority of owners,
trainers or jockeys, punters cannot participate in horse racing beyond placing
a bet or cheering at the racetrack. This may explain why more money is bet on
tennis than horse racing: tennis is the third-most popular sport in the betting
universe.
Soccer Is
Huge
Outside the US, it is thought that
70% of the world’s sports bets are placed on soccer, or
association football, as it is known officially. Soccer is certainly the most
popular sport worldwide, played in almost every country by enthusiastic
amateurs, even if only informally.
The
professional game is massive, with billions of fans scattered all over the
globe. Most of them are ready to put their money where their mouths are, too,
so enormous amounts are bet on soccer annually. The UK and Europe are major
betting markets, but wagering patterns are also beginning to match the
fanatical levels of supporter enthusiasm in South and Central America, Africa
and other markets.
Gridiron Football
Tops List
American or Canadian football, or “gridiron”
for clarity, is the sport that attracts the most betting action worldwide, year
after year. That is despite it being a niche sport that only has significant
following in the US and Canada, although determined efforts are being made to
transplant it to China.
Gridiron also achieve its preeminent position in
global sports betting despite sports betting being completely illegal,
officially, in 49 of the USA’s 50 states until a Supreme Court decision in
2018.
Yes, that’s right: Americans managed to make their favourite
sport the most lucrative sports betting action on the face of the earth, while
supposedly not wagering on it at all! Unless you swallow the story that
everybody was doing their betting from Nevada… |
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