Rematches where you fully expected the opposite result

With all talk of Haye rematch with Klitschko - and no one really thinking it would turn out any differently - I was trying to think of fights , in my lifetime, where the heavy loser turned it round as expected. I'm not talking about fights that were won by close deicisions - there have been many of those, but where a guy has been kayoed or outclassed in a lopsided UD

How does the old quote go... 'knock a guy out and you'll knock him out even quicker in a rematch'.....

Only one I can think off is Lewis Rahman - I was disgusted with Lewis for his lazy arse performance in South Africa but at that rematch was 99.9999% certain he would destroy Rahman (ok i was still nervous as was a big fan). And he did. Same with McCall - was never concerned he would get lucky again (the cry baby)

I remember a lot of experts thinking Tyson would avenge the Holyfield loss but I never thought he would (ok I didn't expect the DQ !) . And I never thought MAB would win the Junior Jones rematch. Nor Moseley against Forrest. Nor Forrest against Mayorga (though i didn't think he would take him the distance)

So guys - any others out there ?

gatti ward

watson v odonnell

i thought watson won the first quite clearly but never got the result, i thought the fight would go the same way with some better judging

I dont think Watson won it quite so clearly but he did get the descision

weren't both those fights close decisions the first time round though ?

I thought Tommy Hearns would own the blade. Wrong!

I thought JMM would beat Manny Wrong!

I thought Chuiquita would beat Carbajal. Right

I thought Jose Napoles would beat Backus. Right

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Originally Posted by Mark TKO

weren't both those fights close decisions the first time round though ?

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:) yeah they were, never read the heavy loser bit

ill have another think

yep Hearns one is a good one I would go with that

In fact I will youtube that knockout from first fight right now as was a classic

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Originally Posted by Mark TKO

weren't both those fights close decisions the first time round though ?

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:) yeah they were, never read the heavy loser bit

ill have another think

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what did they always tell you at school in preparation for tests and exams ?!?!?!?!?

READ THE FUCKING QUESTION !!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Mark TKO

weren't both those fights close decisions the first time round though ?

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:) yeah they were, never read the heavy loser bit

ill have another think

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what did they always tell you at school in preparation for tests and exams ?!?!?!?!?

READ THE FUCKING QUESTION !!!!!!!!!!

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alright alright

Pavlik Beat taylor quite heavily in their first fight, but i thought taylor had the better of it for the most of the fight

therefore i thought he would have learned from the lesson second time round

i didnt "fully" expect him to win but i thought he would

he never tho did he

Eubank v Benn .....ended in the DRAW but we all know who really won
Bowe v Holyfield II

Job Biscuit (& Wlad v Haye II....u just wait)!!!


eh eh!!!

you expected Holyfield to win that rematch ?

I thought The Secret would Royally fuck up Sergio Martinez second time around :-X ;D

Poor Richard Williams, if getting duffed-up once wasn't enough, against a future P4P star, they sent him back in to get beat even worse.

How about Brodie-Chi? Now not me personally, I was a big Chi fan, but all the talk for the rematch was about how Brodie had prepared better and knew what to expect. Err the complete opposite happens. Chi was the one that improved massively from the first fight and just beat the living fuck out of him.

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Poor Richard Williams, if getting duffed-up once wasn't enough, against a future P4P star, they sent him back in to get beat even worse.

How about Brodie-Chi? Now not me personally, I was a big Chi fan, but all the talk for the rematch was about how Brodie had prepared better and knew what to expect. Err the complete opposite happens. Chi was the one that improved massively from the first fight and just beat the living fuck out of him.

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At the time I thought Brodie could do no more than he did in the first fight, Chi could, and did ;D

I thought Big Frank had a chance second time around as well :eek:

so did I !!!

why did we ?!?!?!?

I fully admit I used to fall for the Brit "hype," especially from Sky, a little more back then than now ;D

Poor Bruno. He could have cleaned up with a few easy defenses. Instead he gets thrown back in with his worst nightmare. Cruel bastards. ;D

Tarver Jones 2 was a surprise. I expected the opposite.

Most people thought Eubanks would beat Benn in the rematch as it was at a higher weight and Eubanks would have more time to recover from the weigh in. I disagreed an in fact Benn was a better boxer by that time, more relaxed and better defensively with his head movement. He should have got the decision, Eubanks did not expect Benn to be that elusive.

I also knew Shane was never going to beat Winky so do not know why he bothered a second time. A bit closer but same result.

Terry Norris vs Luis Santana 2...never thougt that fiasco was going to repeat itself