What is the most suprising upset in the history of boxing?

[xzworks]

rahman vs lewis I..lucky boy!!!

[Run]

rahman vs lewis I..lucky boy!!!

That is one of my votes right there.



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[hellfire508]

Douglas - Tyson
Ali - Liston I
Braddock - Baer
Ali - Norton

[kapersky]

my top 3

buster over tyson - by that time the media build up tyson like he was a monster and was incinsible. everybody was talking about tyson.

rahman over lewis - rahman was nobody he had been defeated by worse boxer, so he was basically counting out.

ali over foreman - ali was allready famous and he did had skillz needed but foreman was like from another planet by that time. and ali was beated by norton and frazier so it was evidence that he was beatable. it wasen like when ali vs liston when he was undefeated but underdog.

[DudeManGuy216]

LaMotta beating Robinson was pretty big because he was undefeated in all his ameteur fights and was 40-0 and after the loss he didn't lose until he was 128-1 against Randy Turpin. He also knocked him down, something Robinson couldn't do.

[Rockin']

I was so surprised when I was watching as James Toney knocked out Michael Nunn. Nunn was the most skilled fighter at the time and quite honestly, was far more skilled than James.

Part of the surprise was that I had fought on the same team as James just a few years before that fight as amatuers. James showed nothing at the time where you would deem him a future champion. He showed us though that he was.

Rockin'

[punchers_chance]

I was so surprised when I was watching as James Toney knocked out Michael Nunn. Nunn was the most skilled fighter at the time and quite honestly, was far more skilled than James.

Part of the surprise was that I had fought on the same team as James just a few years before that fight as amatuers. James showed nothing at the time where you would deem him a future champion. He showed us though that he was.

Rockin'

Good pick. I like that as the biggest upset. Not big commercially, but big in significance.

Douglas over Tyson was a huge upsewt no doubt, but in retrospect, alot of Tyson losing that fight were outside influences. Prime Tyson KO's Buster on his best night.

Ali over Foreman, somewhat of an upset, but damn, it was Ali.

[salsanchezfan]

In my lifetime, probably Douglas-Tyson. That was huge. Spinks Ali.........well, given Ali's physical condition at the time, and given he'd let a guy like Evangelista go the route with him, maybe that's not quite at the same level. Ali was toast by the time Spinks got to him. Tyson was at least still quite young, and hadn't taken any real punishment. That was a real shocker.

Other notables.........

Braddock-Baer - on the level of Tyson-Douglas at the time. HUGE upset.

Pastrano-Johnson - one of just a handful of times (if that many) a replacement for a replacement won a world title from the champ.

Harada-Jofre - Jofre had never lost, and Harada figured to fit nicely into Jofre's sharpshooting style. Didn't quite work out that way, or in the subsequent fight.

[SLIMZ]

tyson-douglas......no contest.

also, taylor-hopkins?

barrera-pacquiao.

[butterfly1964]

42 to 1 odds? Are you serious? Buster Douglass was a guy who quit in the middle of many fights. And Iron Mike was the undefeated quintessential killing machine. This guy stopped the great Mike Spinks in 91 seconds. No upset even comes close to this one? Douglass-Tyson hands down.