1-SSR vs Randy Turpin
2-Don Curry vs Lloyd Honeyghan
They are the top 2 IMO but there are lots of others such as Hatton-Koysta,Lewis V Ruddock,Lanning V Duran to name a few.
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1-SSR vs Randy Turpin
2-Don Curry vs Lloyd Honeyghan
They are the top 2 IMO but there are lots of others such as Hatton-Koysta,Lewis V Ruddock,Lanning V Duran to name a few.
Not the biggest of all time but it was hell of a shock for Americans Calzaghe beatdown of Lacy.
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Originally Posted by littlebif
Yes,I think a lot of Brit fans including myself thought Joe would win but not as easy as he did and most yanks thought jeff was going to knock Joe into orbit.;D
Hamed-Kelly? I wasn't really into the boxing scene then (I was only 6 :p) but I would of thought alot of people were expecting Kelly to knock Hamed out?
I think Naz was the favorate in that one mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeyUK
I think Kelly had a few losses on his record by then.
Great fight though.;D
Joergen Hansen TKO 3 Dave Boy Green (1979)
Miguel Matthews TKO 4 Scott Harrison (1997)
Billy Schwer UD 10 Newton Villarreal (2001)
Mindaugas TKO 3 Herbie Hide (2004)Kulikauskas
Paul Bonson D 4 Neil Simpson (2008)
Choi Tseveenpurev KO 5 Derry Matthews (2008)
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Originally Posted by JoeyUK
Naz was heavy odds on.
If you mean upsets both ways involving British fighters.
Naz was 4/11 to beat Barrera
Lacy was 8/13 on to beat Calzaghe
Tzysu was around 4/7 to beat Hatton.
Benn vs. McClellan stand out ,I dont know about over there but over here I remember many thinking it was just a formality...Gerald would wreck him.
Robin Reid v Vincenzo Nardiello wbc title fight
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Even as a big Benn fan I thought he was going to get KOed in that one.
The ease with which Honeyghan beat Curry was so surprising to me. Here Curry took apart McCrory to unify the WW division & it seemed like he might be an ATG one day.
Turpin - Sugar ray, and Honeyghan - Curry ....... I definitely agree. The guys were the undisputed number one fighter on the planet, near their peaks and they got beat fair and square.
Laing and Duran is up there too, but Duran was slightly past his best and clearly hadn;t even bothered to train!!!
Bentt - Morrison was another?
I dont agree about benn - McClellan as Nigel would always have a punchers chance against anyone. It was actually a good fight for him (guy was coming up in weight for the foirst time, fighting at home, Benn was the experienced guy, McClellan hadnlt been tested)
Alex Arthur - Gomez
both Lennox Lewis's loses
Gavin Rees - M'baye
jennings over cotto
;D;D;D
Good points,thought along the same lines there at the time.Many of the Media slighted & over looked Benn in that one,Pointing to his shaky chin and his previous few fights in which he had boxed more,not shown that bombing style,some fools actually asked if he had lost his power :-X.On a large scale,It was expected that Gerald would go in and destroy him...ala Julian Jackson.I do think McClellan had been tested and pretty legitimized in those two.Especially the first scrap,he was stunned,absorbed some big hits and came back in devastating fashion.People were talking of McClellan as Boxings p4p biggest hitter,riding a huge KO streak.And you know how the Media looooves its undefeated big hitters lol.I think Ferdie Pacheco put it best in hindsight..."McClellan and camp let his reputation go to his head"....and many ate it up.Actually Benn was improving and adding to his game.The best thing Imo that happened to him was getting dropped and hurt early in with a tremendous straight puncher like McClellan......He reverted and had to go back to all out hard shots.In a way,it may of helped deflate The G-Man also.Pne that would not fold.If he had waited and tried to box it out...McClellan may have just cleaned him up in short order.Once McClellan was backed up and pressured with similar big power,Benn had him.Quote:
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Stracey over Napoles
This is no upset, but the next brit to go down is Hatton
Curry v Honeyghan was the biggest upset by a British fighter bar non.
I'd have two above that:Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
1. Turpin overcoming a peak Ray Robinson
2. Terry Marsh on points over the law (allegedly) ;)
Mark Kaylor - Buster Drayton? Or was Kaylor not really big enough to call his loss an upset?
Randy Turpin v Ray Robinson has gotta be the biggest.
It was Sugar Ray Robinson after all:cool:
Turpin won because Ray was stale after fighting in France a week earlier and proved it was a fluke when he beat his in the return. Lloyd battered Curry and nobody thought he was going to win that fight.
Turpin was ahead on points and had opened a monstrous cut on Ray's eye. The fight would have been stopped on the cut within a couple of rounds ..... Robinson pulled it out of the bag and stopped Turpin late on (some argued the ref was a bit premature to do this)Quote:
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That made it 1-1 .......... Ray never gave Randy a rematch. Turpin was possibly the only fighter that Ray could never figure out. He was a very big middleweight and his upper body was more like a light heavy, he has an enormous reach and he would lean back and jab people silly before dropping in the right. Good firmess, good skills and stamina, good chin.
Turpin was world class and it most certainly wasn't a fluke. I think it's fair to say that he caught Robinson cold in the first fight and surprised him, but he owned ray throughout that fight and also for most of the rematch.
Master - have you watched both fights ...... if you go through them a couple of times and just forget it's Sugar Ray in there ..... Turpin made the best fighter who ever lived look pretty ordinary !