Fights in which you KNEW the underdog would win.

[El Kabong]

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.

[Gandalf]

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.

[Bill Paxtom]

James 'Buster' Douglas over Mike Tyson
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"Are you sure your eye's weren't deceiving you."

Joi Lansing

[SugarBoxing]

James 'Buster' Douglas over Mike Tyson
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"Are you sure your eye's weren't deceiving you."

Joi Lansing

BULLSHIT, I do not believe you

[Spicoli]

Some were picked on favoritism and some you just KNEW

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
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

[X]

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

[Britkid]

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...

[Ron Swanson]

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.

[Master]

Wright v Shane as he had beaten up all our brush fighters with ease and Mosely was just too small to beat Wright.

[Fenster]

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...

[ElTerribleMorales]

Morales over Pacquiao I
Hopkins over Pavlik
Cotto over Margarito 2

[Master]

Morales over Pacquiao I
Hopkins over Pavlik
Cotto over Margarito 2

Morales must have been favourite against Manny?

[ono]

Can't think of too many massive ones, although Calzaghe - Lacy sticks out.

[X]

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!