Fights in which you KNEW the underdog would win.

[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...