Best UFC Betting Sites in Canada

According to the guys at My Betting Sites, Bet365 offers up the best UFC sportsbook. No other book offers more bets, or a bet builder. Only a handful of books offer odds that are competitive with Bet365’s, and LeoVegas' app only narrowly trumps Bet365's in terms of usability.

Bet365 is easy to use and bet with. Processes like signing up, depositing, betting, and eventually withdrawing are all seamless, and fast. In terms of the bets available, Bet365 consistently has more bets to choose from than other UFC book. For example, you could have bet on Nunes to win by any stoppage in her final title defence against Aldana, or you could've bet on Nunes to win any of the five rounds that the fight was scheduled to include. This can be handy if you know a fighter has good cardio, and comes alive in those championship rounds.

Bet365 is also the only sportsbook to offer up a bet builder for UFC fights, which enables users to build different selections including the fight winner, method of victory, round bets (which fighter will win a given round), totals for rounds (how many rounds will the fight last), and whether the fight will go the distance. These bets are provided well in advance, which isn’t the case for the rest of the UFC sportsbooks in Canada.

Bwin offers up a solid option for betting on the UFC, mainly because of the range of bets they make available for every fight. Our biggest highlight was their “gone in 60 seconds” market which lets you place a bet on whether the fight will be over within the first minute.

Talking more about the bets we liked, the method of victory bets on Bwin are second to none. Bwin offers bets such as how will the fight finish (by decision, KO, TKO, DQ or submission), as well as the method of victory and the fighter who will win (e.g. Gaethje by KO, Poirier by decision and so on). Bwin also gives you the option to bet on the fight winner, the round, and the method of victory altogether (e.g. Adesanya, KO, round 1). No other sportsbook has a better range of method of victory bets.

The only thing we’d change about Bwin’s sportsbook is the fact that their total rounds bets were a little disappointing (they only offered two options when Bet365 offered about 10), but aside from that, Bwin's offering was very impressive, and worthy of signing up and betting on for UFC events.

Betway’s another solid option for betting on the UFC. Betway’s UFC stats appear to be pulled directly from the UFC’s site, so you’ll have some of the best insights like form guides and fighter stats to help with your bets.

Betway’s up there with some of the best when it comes to the different bets they offer users. Betway provide fight winner odds well in advance, but early into fight week, Betway start offering more bets for all fights that make up the card. Users can choose to bet on rounds (e.g. Boser to win round 3), Method of victory (Whittaker by KO), when will the fight end (rounds 1 through 3 or 5 for championship fights), along with will the fight go the distance (yes or no), to win by decision (e.g. Poirier by decision), and to win by finish (e.g. Nunes by TKO).

One issue we had was the lack of cash out availability for UFC bets. Betway gives the option to cash out fight winner bets, but doesn’t offer cash out for any other bets on a specific fight. We preferred the cash-out offers listed on Bwin.

LeoVegas does a great job of offering bets for the UFC. Their app is our top pick for betting on fights with a mobile, and the number of options they make available is impressive. They offer up fight parlays, which, aside from LeoVegas, were only being offered on Bwin and Bet365.

LeoVegas is another book that tends to only start offering more bets when fight week rolls around. When we checked the bets available for a fight 2 weeks into the future (in this case it was Vettori vs. Cannonier), they only made fight winner odds available.

We did like the preset fight parlays, which allowed you to bet on three combined outcomes - the fight winner, the method of victory, and the round. For example, you could bet on Jonny Bones to win by submission in round 3 whenever he fights next. Don't hold your breath when it comes to betting on Bones again, as you’d have to wait for his next fight to be announced, and then you’d have to wait until the week that fight will go down.

LeoVegas wasn’t too great with the features they have on offer. There weren’t any stats available on the site, and while they offer pre-made fight parlays, there’s no option to build your own same game parlay.

Pinnacle’s sportsbook offers up the best odds for UFC fights. They’re not higher up on the list because aside from the odds, the rest of what they offer for UFC isn’t quite up to par.

We measured their odds against the odds found on LeoVegas, 888Sport, Sports Interaction, and Powerplay and found that Pinnacle pays you more for the same bets that you’d be able to make on these other bookmakers. The margins offered on Pinnacle were 3.56% which indicates the percentage of your stake Pinnacle keeps on won bets. On average, other bookmakers were offering margins of between 4.5% and 6% which may not sound like a lot, but if you’re looking to use a sportsbook for a long time, the difference in value that Pinnacle offers can become sizeable.

As for the bets on offer, even in fight week, Pinnacle only offer odds for the fight winner, and for total rounds. We didn't like that total rounds bets are just named total, because it makes the market feel a bit unclear.

Sports Interaction makes more bets available than most other UFC sportsbooks, but they’re frequently suspended, which can be frustrating if you’re looking to get a bet in early. That being said, their UFC bet catalogue does make up for it.

Sports Interaction give you the option to bet on the fight winner, fighters to win a round, total rounds of the fight, for the fight to go the distance, and method of victory. Compared to Pinnacle and Powerplay, this range of bets is pretty good. We were a bit disappointed to see that there was no potential to build same game parlays, or bet on combos. Sports Interaction already makes these bets available, so it can’t be hard to create some options that involve more than one outcome.

We also felt that Sports Interaction could improve the range of stats available for UFC fights. The overall lack of features were what we were most unsatisfied with.

We were impressed with what was offered on the sportsbook that has GSP and Juliana Pena as two of their cover stars. When we first checked on the Monday of UFC 289, we were pretty disappointed because it looked a lot like Bet99 were offering the same as Pinnacle and Powerplay (which isn't much), but closer to fight night the range of bets increased significantly.

The bets on offer were similar to what’s on offer on Bwin and Bet365, with odds being made available for the fight winner, total rounds, the fight to go the distance, and winning method, along with a few more. Bet99 offers up a great bet builder for the NBA, and soccer, but not for UFC fights. We would have liked to have seen that same functionality applied to fights. Being able to bet on a same game parlay of Oliveira to win, Oliveira to get the KO & Total rounds under 2.5 would’ve been nice.

Other things, like the lack of a betting app, the odds not being priced well, and the lack of any stats or fighter info are why they’re appearing lower down on our list.

888sport’s another one that likes to keep the bets on hold before they’re sure that all fighters are healthy in the build up to fight week. With that said, we were a little disappointed with the number of bets they make available during fight week. They aren’t as varied as what’s available on Bet365 & Bwin for example.

888Sport make all the regular bets available, but don’t offer single method of victory bets, and offer limited total rounds bets. We also couldn’t find any of the statistical info that could be found on Betway and Bwin, which would have improved the overall quality of what 888Sport has to offer for the UFC.

All in all, you’ll likely be better served by one of the UFC sportsbooks listed above.

NEO.bet’s UFC betting site left a lot to be desired. They’re another book that don’t make a lot of bets available in advance. Another thing we weren’t so sure about were the fighter form charts that the sportsbook makes available next to where the odds are displayed. We liked the concept, but it was pretty inconsistent, since it only listed fight form charts for a handful of fighters.

We were also left a bit disappointed with regard to the range of bets they make available close to fight night. NEO.bet Only offer fight winner bets, winner three-way (bet on the which fighter to win, or the fight to end on a draw, which doesn’t make too much sense since there are very few draws in the UFC), and total rounds. You can find far more, and unique bets on Bet365 & Bwin. The odds on NEO.bet were also pretty forgettable.

All in all, we think you’d be better off with a book that is listed further up this page.

Out of the 10 sportsbooks that are safely offering bets on the UFC in Canada, Powerplay was the least impressive, for a couple of reasons. For one, the odds weren’t very good. You’re better off using Pinnacle or Bet365 if you’re interested in betting with the best odds.

The next issue we had was the lack of bets that Powerplay made available. Regardless of the time leading up to fights, Powerplay only offers up fight winner odds, which is simply not good enough compared to what else is out there. Powerplay also offer up no stats or information, and barely any specials.

Powerplay’s another book that we wouldn’t recommend if your main interest is betting on the UFC.