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After publishing a free-access website for the past four years I am now launching a revised site with a subscription component aimed at those who like to wager on boxing matches.

The link between boxing and wagering has long fascinated me. Sportsmen have been gambling on boxing matches since the bare-knuckle beginnings of the sport.

Many sites offer free tips on boxing matches. Picking winners and successfully wagering on boxing are not one and the same, though.

Anyone can offer a prediction on a fight where one boxer is a -1500 favourite and get the winner right. That’s child’s play.

Wagering is different, though. Sometimes it is better to look at various propositions on a fight rather than take a position on one fighter. For instance, will the fight go a certain number of rounds? Is one boxer more likely to win buy decision or by knockout?

I will take some selected fights each month and break down the wagering opportunities.

I will also look at possible parlays (or accumulators as they are known in the U.K.), which for the uninitiated is grouping two or more boxers in one wager to obtain more attractive odds.

Each week I will make recommendations but I will also offer opinions on other fights.

When I am offering wagering advice I will wait for the oddsmaker(s) to release the betting lines. Most picks will appear the day before the fight. I find I seem to get a stronger feeling for a fight as the bout approaches, although sometimes a “first thoughts” pick turns out to have been the correct one.

There are wagering strategies to ensure that a player can stay ahead or at worst not blow his bankroll in the first few months. My strategy is steady growth. This site is not about beating the sportsbooks into submission. That will never happen, nor would we want it to. It is about careful planning and prudent money management. This site will also be about getting enjoyment out of wagering, because I believe betting should be fun as well as, one hopes, profitable.

No one gets it right all the time. Some of the sharpest boxing minds I have known have had losing runs. When I get a prediction wrong I will look back at the fight and seek to pinpoint the mistake that was made, if any — because a losing play can sometimes come down to a dubious decision or sheer bad luck.

I have been doing this for a very long time. I devote many hours to breaking down the week’s fights, sometimes even doing a line-by-line breakdown of the fighters’ records in the course of my research. I spend hours a day watching the fights on video.

There will be good weeks and bad weeks, but the idea is always to come out ahead at the end of the year.

Many of you will be excellent judges of boxing, “good handicappers” as they say in the business. If I can bring something to your attention that might help you to make a winning wager, or avoid a losing one, then I will have accomplished what I am setting out to do.

Subscribers will be notified by email when a new pick has been posted.

I will continue to provide a selection of previews free of change, but certain previews, and betting advice, will be for subscribers only.

Most of you will know my track record but why not sign up for a free one-month trial and see if you think this addition to the site is for you?