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Fights in which you KNEW the underdog would win.
Hopkins over Pavlik. I remember the entire Pavlik camp being all cocky and overconfident, claiming they were going to knock Hopkins out, which was mind-boggling itself (Have they even watched BHop fight before?). Of course Bernard proceeded to teach that kid a boxing lesson. It wasn't even that hard of a fight for him.
Mayweather over Genaro Hernandez
Chris Byrd over Evander Holyfield
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Nate Campbell over Diaz.
Margarito over Cotto.
Williams over Margarito and Wright.
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Rahman over Lewis
Cotto over Martinez
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Buster Douglas over Tyson
Ray Leonard over Hagler
Ali over Liston and Foreman
Only because I knew the results before I watched the fights though.
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Wlad over Sam Peter I (easy looking back on it but at the time EVERYONE thought Peter was going to win)
Wright over Mosley
Thompson over Solis I (Tony wasn't the underdog in the rematch)
....not sure what other ones I've called....Cotto over Abdullaev which was a rematch of an amateur bout that Cotto lost.
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Calzaghe/Lacy. Everyone now says Lacy was shit, but they were all picking him. Calzaghe was always a league above a face first brawler. Boxing experts are a bit like leading economists. They have the loudest voices, but the rich are richer because they work for the machine.
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James 'Buster' Douglas over Mike Tyson
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1. Hop over Tito
2. Foreman over Moorer
3. Hop over Pavilik
4. Whitaker over Chavez
5. Evander over Buster Douglas (yes, Buster was the favorite).
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The first Barkley/Hearns fight. Called the round too.
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I picked Margarito to beat Cotto, Hopkins to beat Tito, Cook to beat Arthur and on a much smaller scale I remember people were raving about Bradley Pryce getting a world title shot and I told my friends Matthew Hall would destroy him and knock him out.
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Nate Campbell over Diaz.
Margarito over Cotto.
Williams over Margarito and Wright.
I'm sure everyone on here had Williams as favourite over Winky. I also thought he'd beat Margarito.
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Calzaghe/Lacy. Everyone now says Lacy was shit, but they were all picking him. Calzaghe was always a league above a face first brawler. Boxing experts are a bit like leading economists. They have the loudest voices, but the rich are richer because they work for the machine.
I'm proud to say I always said Lacy was shit. If people would look past his muscles to watch the action they would have known that too. People can't see past the "talent" to see the fighter.
This was no major upset though even to the bookees. Lacy was a very slight favorite.
I won big on Holyfield over Tyson, that was my biggest win for years. Tyson was another guy people could never see for what he really was, Pacquiao too. When folks start to realize greatness comes from the mind not from athleticism it will become hard to fleece them.
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Wright v Shane as he had beaten up all our brush fighters with ease and Mosely was just too small to beat Wright.
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A lot of these fights mentioned weren't really shocking underdog upsets.
Barrera was around a 4/1 dog against Naz and Morales - first time - but plenty fancied him.
I backed Prescott to chin Khan at 125/1. Pure luck with hindsight. Yeah...
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Morales over Pacquiao I
Hopkins over Pavlik
Cotto over Margarito 2
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Morales over Pacquiao I
Hopkins over Pavlik
Cotto over Margarito 2
Morales must have been favourite against Manny?
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Morales over Pacquiao I
Hopkins over Pavlik
Cotto over Margarito 2
Morales must have been favourite against Manny?
nope Morales was coming off his "loss" to Barrera in their 3rd fight, and Pacquiao was coming off his previous wins against Barrera, 3k Battery, and his draw against JMM, Morales pulling off the win was considered an upset at the time
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I picked Margarito to beat Cotto, Hopkins to beat Tito, Cook to beat Arthur and on a much smaller scale I remember people were raving about Bradley Pryce getting a world title shot and I told my friends Matthew Hall would destroy him and knock him out.
I got ridiculed for picking ....
Margarito over Cotto
Ike Ibeabuchi over Tua
Lennox Lewis over Razor Ruddick
Bernard Hopkins over Trinidad
Bernard Hopkins over Pavlik
Hearing the apologies was well worth it though
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BULLSHIT, I do not believe you
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Some were picked on favoritism and some you just KNEW ;D
Hopkins vs Trinidad. Still scratching my head over how Hopkins was made to sound a afterthought
Simon Brown vs Terry Norris 1..just had that sneaking feeling after initial cancellation
Holyfield vs Tyson 1...still remember some press heads saying they feared for his life :-X
Sorjaturong vs Chiquita Gonzalez
Azumah Nelson vs Jeff Fenech II...regardless of first fight 'draw' still no clue how it was thought an upset.
Frankie Randall vs J.C Chavez I...Randall was just so damn sharp and supremely confident. In another life and minus the demons and vices Randall should have been so much more.
Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClellan...the phenomenal bricks of Jackson aside the G-man had never faced anything close to Benn.
Joseph Agbeko vs Vic The crab
Rafa Ruelas vs Oscar De La Hoya...ok I was wrong there. Terribly wrong and borderline delusional dislike wrong ;D
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When Naz defended his world title for the first time, against Said Lawal, I watched it in the pub. That was, I think, in 2001.
I turned around to the whole room, all of whom believed the hype about the Prince, and said that there was a young Mexican called Marco Antonio Barrera who would beat Hamed.
Howls of drunk enough derision ensued .... 5 years later I was proven right
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I think one of the most famous ones in the UK was Ryan/Thaxton.
Ryan may have been 22-0 and the champ and this fight was non title and Thaxton was moving up in weight and 3-3 in his six fights previous. But it was well known style wise it was a horrible matchup for Scrap Iron; there was plenty of money on the big underdog, all the rumours about the outcome were even hinted at on TV and two minutes after the first bell Thaxton had duly flattened Ryan...
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Can't think of too many massive ones, although Calzaghe - Lacy sticks out.
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I knew Tyson Fury would beat Wlad.
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I knew Tyson Fury would beat Wlad.
You were pretty non-committal till after the event. Then , all of a sudden you turned into a Ross clone. ;D
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I knew Tyson Fury would beat Wlad.
You were pretty non-committal till after the event. Then , all of a sudden you turned into a Ross clone. ;D
Non committal my ass, saddo league prediction was Fury points UD.
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I knew Tyson Fury would beat Wlad.
You were pretty non-committal till after the event. Then , all of a sudden you turned into a Ross clone. ;D
Non committal my ass, saddo league prediction was Fury points UD.
Wasn't UD, you just said Pts.
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Primo Carnera
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Master
I knew Tyson Fury would beat Wlad.
You were pretty non-committal till after the event. Then , all of a sudden you turned into a Ross clone. ;D
Non committal my ass, saddo league prediction was Fury points UD.
Wasn't UD, you just said Pts.
Same thing ;D
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Not sure if Mosley was an underdog vs Margarito, but the website I was at scorned me for saying Mosley would take away the taller man's inside game and yes ...stop him.
Gatti vs Gomez. The fact that he would choose such an opponent made me loathe to watch it.
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4. Whitaker over Chavez
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Margarito over Cotto.
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Hopkins over Pavlik.
Mayweather over Genaro Hernandez
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Lennox Lewis over Razor Ruddick
Bernard Hopkins over Trinidad
I don’t really think any of these are big upsets. I think it was more the one sided-ness of the underdogs victory that was most shocking.
I think the Mayweather – Hernandez is interesting in that, amazing to think that at the time Hernandez was a strong favourite to win that fight. Probably the only time in Floyd's career that he entered the ring an underdog.
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Ali over Liston and Foreman
Only because I knew the results before I watched the fights though.
O – Right, yeah son. Well unless you are above 70 years of age. I highly doubt that you picked Ali to beat Liston, never mind foreman
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If I were around during Cassius Clay's early career, I would have picked him over Liston. Not by stoppage though. 15 round decision.
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4. Whitaker over Chavez
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Margarito over Cotto.
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Hopkins over Pavlik.
Mayweather over Genaro Hernandez
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C.J.Rock
Lennox Lewis over Razor Ruddick
Bernard Hopkins over Trinidad
I don’t really think any of these are big upsets. I think it was more the one sided-ness of the underdogs victory that was most shocking.
I think the Mayweather – Hernandez is interesting in that, amazing to think that at the time Hernandez was a strong favourite to win that fight. Probably the only time in Floyd's career that he entered the ring an underdog.
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Ali over Liston and Foreman
Only because I knew the results before I watched the fights though.
O – Right, yeah son. Well unless you are above 70 years of age. I highly doubt that you picked Ali to beat Liston, never mind foreman
I picked Jess Willard over Jack Johnson, son. @denilson200
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Eubank - Benn I. Gutted at the result but expected it
And Hamed v Barrera
Hamed had one plan and that was to take him out in 2-3 rounds. Barrera ? Really ?
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Hamed v Barrera sticks out for me too. I always thought Hamed was a bit overrated as is usual with Brit fighters. I also remember going for Calzaghe v Lacy.
with hindsight , it's hard to imagine that Barrera and Calzaghe were Underdogs.
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Calzaghe-Lacy is a good one already mentioned.
We already KNEW Calzaghe had a good chin, we knew he had solid technique, we knew he could punch when he wanted to, we knew he was a winner, we knew he was fighting at home .... and they hyped this bloke up as the second coming of Mike Tyson. Lacy had a good left hook, but he hadn't really fought anyone outside America, he had never been in trouble and he looked tailor made for Calzaghe.
I was right!
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Years and years before they fought, when Hamed was still on the way up, I told everyone in the pub that there was this Mexican kid called Marco Antonio Barrera who would bash him up.
And there were witnesses to that conversation!
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Buster Douglas over Tyson
Ray Leonard over Hagler
Ali over Liston and Foreman
Only because I knew the results before I watched the fights though.
Ali over Liston ? How old are you ? 90
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