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    Default 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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    Default Re: Fight in which you KNEW the underdog would win.

    Nate Campbell over Diaz.
    Margarito over Cotto.
    Williams over Margarito and Wright.

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    Default Re: Fight in which you KNEW the underdog would win.

    Rahman over Lewis
    Cotto over Martinez

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    Default Re: Fights in which you KNEW the underdog would win.

    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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    Default Re: Fights in which you KNEW the underdog would win.

    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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    Default Re: Fights in which you KNEW the underdog would win.

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by No Contest View Post
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
    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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