The Upset School

[TheProudLunatic]

I've seen most of these and pretty much agree on all of them - have NOT seen Rios vs Abril or Lacy vs Calzaghe, going to check them out!

Lacy vs Cal was on par with Maidana vs Broner !

[famicommander]

George Kambosos vs Teofimo Lopez.

[Citizen Koba]

I've seen most of these and pretty much agree on all of them - have NOT seen Rios vs Abril or Lacy vs Calzaghe, going to check them out!

I'ma post a video of that one just for those who ain't seen it, I m getting to age where I forget just how long ago some of these fights were... somehow in my head even the turning of the Millennium doesn't feel like it was long ago lol..

Simply a masterclass although TBF whilst the narrative at the time heavily favoured Lacy the odds were actually much closer than you'd think, opening with Lacy at something like -110 Joe at +150 and of course Joe was the champ

another one that turned out against expectations was the young bluechip Danny Jacobs getting thoroughly bamboozled and ultimately KOd by relative unknown Russian Dmitry Pirog who was about a +300 'dog. The great Manny Steward's commentary is measured and on point as ever. Miss that dude.

EDIT: Ha ha.. I forgot about that, at about 24:25 you can literally see the shock and dismay on Valcarels (then WBO pres for those who don't know) face on the second row - yellow/black tie - as his plan to install Jacobs as their champion goes up in smoke. Priceless.

[Light_Speed]

Hopkins vs Trinidad is up there.

Also Nate Campbell vs Juan Diaz.

[LA_2_Vegas]

Kelly Pavlik - Sergio Martinez - not sure if people expected Sergio to look bad, but it was considered an upset, he dominated, and styled on him.


Erik Morales - Zahir Raheem - I bet some people saw this one coming. Morales was dominated and styled on.

Denis Lebedev - Guillermo Jones

Marco Antonio Barerra - Junior Jones

Juanma Lopez v Orlando Salido

Wlad Klitschko - Corrie Sanders

Paul Williams v Carlos Quintana

Chris John - Juan Manuel Marquez I - not sure if this was even an upset odds wise. But my Dad and I were big JMM fan at this point, he got on LA TV a good amount coming up. It was finally supposed to be the JMM's coronation after the loss vs Freddie Norwood; Chris John was supposed to hand over his belt as far I was concerned. I didn't see the fight live, I just heard about the result on a boxing radio show hosted by Rich Moiratta the next morning\- JMM got upset, and the scores were wide. that's all I knew about that fight for a while, so it felt like he was dominated and I was shocked. Devastating loss for JMM at that point.

[Smash]

andre hypno eyes ward v mikkel bamboozled kessler

[SceneBoxer]

Barrera vs Pacquiao 1

[Joseph]

EDIT: Ha ha.. I forgot about that, at about 24:25 you can literally see the shock and dismay on Valcarels (then WBO pres for those who don't know) face on the second row - yellow/black tie - as his plan to install Jacobs as their champion goes up in smoke. Priceless.

I remember this fight and that KO was exceptional. Never noticed striped tie. He may have bet one of his houses from the look on his face.

[Tatabanya]

A fight that obeys to your required criteria is the first Terry Norris vs Simon Brown.

Norris was hot at the time, whereas Brown was considered as good as shot, many boxing insiders deeming the fight a total mismatch. But Brown pulled out a small masterpiece of resistance and punch selection, taking advantage of Norris' weak chin.

[QueensburyRules]

Barrera vs Pacquiao 1

- - Barrera was highly Ring Ranked as their champion as anyone not in grade school knew then. That was that was one of the hottest fights of the era that announced Manny as the top P4P fighter in the entire history of Ring Rankings.

What grade was U in then?