One of the more interesting boxing fights coming up this weekend is this WBO world minimum-weight title bout between current title holder Oscar Collazo and Garen Diagan. Collazo will look to keep his undefeated record and finish his first title defense against the scrappy Filipino fighter.
Read more for the breakdown, betting analysis, and the official Collazo vs Diagan prediction ahead of making your bets this weekend.
Oscar Collazo vs. Garen Diagan Information
Oscar Collazo vs Garen Diagan
Location of the game: Coliseo Roberto Clemente, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Date and Time: August 26. 11:00 PM ET est. ring walk
How to Watch: DAZN
Last Fight Results
Collazo is coming off a TKO win to secure the title over Melvin Jerusalem in May.
Diagan is coming off a narrow split decision victory over Huu Toan Le in March.
Oscar Collazo vs. Garen Diagan Betting Analysis
Oscar Collazo
Collazo is a 26-year-old world champion boxer born in New Jersey but represents Puerto Rico and his family from there. As an amateur, he won five national titles and won gold at the 2019 Pan-Am Games in the light flyweight division.
Now, Collazo has a professional record of 7-0 with five KOs under his belt. “El Pupilo” is a minimum-weight fighter, meaning he is the smallest class of professional fighter in the world. He stands at 5’1” with a 62.5” reach, fighting out of the southpaw stance.
Garen Diagan
Diagan is a professional boxer out of the Philippines with a professional record of 10-3 with five KO victories. This will be his first world title shot at the age of 27 years old. His measurements are a height of 5’3”, and his reach hasn’t been recorded.
He might be slightly bigger than Collazo in the ring on Saturday night and will also be fighting out of the southpaw stance. With not much information on him, Diagan is coming in as the big betting underdog.
Updates
There are no injuries reported to WBO or DAZN.
Oscar Collazo vs. Garen Diagan Betting Preview
The Collazo vs Diagan prediction might be easy to make after looking at both fighters’ bios and past accomplishments, but we need to take a look at the available betting lines to see what the best bet is.
According to boxing odds, Collazo is coming into this weekend as the massive -1600 betting favorite to defend his belt over the +850 Diagan. This fight is favored to end inside the distance at -350 as well, which is rare for bouts in this low of a weight division.
Collazo is -300 to win via TKO/KO, and Diagan is +2300 to do the same. It’s very interesting to see someone weighing 105 lbs being favored to knock someone his size out.
Strategic Shifts
From the technical side of this fight preview, it’s pretty clear to see why Collazo is the champ. The hand speed paired with his world-class footwork, changing angles and hitting his opponents from places they can’t see.
Diagan fights out of the southpaw stance, so it will be a slightly different wrinkle to the game plan of Collazo, but Diagan seems to struggle when the fight takes place on the inside.
He is at his best when moving to his left, landing his one and two from a distance when someone is following him around the ring.
Oscar Collazo vs. Garen Diagan Prediction
This is a great weekend to try to watch this fight because boxing matches that have elite-level fighters from these lower-weight classes are very fun to watch. They are so technical and talented.
- No disrespect towards the challenger, but the official Collazo vs Diagan prediction is Collazo by any method he wants.
The line for him to win by KO is still -300, so that isn’t even a good bet to make.
Collazo is going to be able to cut the ring off and land some heavy shots to the body of Diagan, who has shown he is soft to the body in his only loss that he was finished in. If you want to get really lucky, take Collazo to win in the third round at +1800.
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