What Is The Biggest (Non Heavyweight) Upset In Boxing History?

[1SILVA]

Well?

NO HEAVYWEIGHTS FIGHTS ALLOWED!

Ralph Tiger Jones defeat of SRR. Vilomar Fernandez defeat of Alexis Arguello. Mike Rossman defeat of Victor Galindez. Willy Salazar defeat of Danny Romero. Livingstone Bramble defeat of Ray Mancini

[HaglerSteelChin]

I will list a few that are not in Ring's biggest upset annual list although I would agree that Pavlik vs Hopkins was a big upset as at the time "The Ghost " was seen as a big monster against the old BHOP. I only will pick non HW fights that came during my boxing era.


Chavez Vs Randall 1- Who would think after escaping Sweet Pea with a dubious draw and dodging a bullet with Taylor that Frankie Randall would get the first "Offiicial" win against JLC?

Naseem vs Barrera-This restored Barrera's career and very few thought the undefeated Prince Hamed Naseem would lose to Marco. Seeing the fight at the time it was a major upset as Prince was undefeated and fight was seen as a stepping stone for bigger things.

Pacquaio vs Barrera 1- Although he had already two losses against Junior Jones and a close decision lost to EM it was big upset for Pac to stop Barrera at Texas in front of a pretty much hometown crowd.


Gonzalez vs Michalczewski(sp?)- Few thought that the guy who some felt was ducked by Roy Jones Jr would get his first loss in germany by decision from a fighter who was easily defeated by Jones. It was big upset in the LHW division at the time.

In jones defense; i think he didn't want to fight Darius because he feared a BS decision lost like what happened to him in the Seoul olympics when his Gold medal was stolen by judges in favor of the local korean fighter. I remember seeing the fight live in the 88 Olympics and it is still one of most vivid olympic memories.

[mickey malone]

I was shocked every time Sven Ottke won, but that's another story..
Randolph Turpin over Ray Robinson immediately comes to mind, and I can also remember being shocked when Steve Cruz reduced Barry McGuigan to a heap of dung in the Mexican heat.. He'd been on a roll up until then, and had beaten much better fighters than Cruz..
John H Stracey out-toughing Jose Napoles for the undisputed Welter crown has to be another one.. Ok, Napoles was past prime, but this was 10,000 feet up a Mexican mountain somewhere, and Stracey was a ghostly white East-Londoner..
Napoles came out and battered Stracey in the first round, decking him, cutting him aswell as putting the head on him too..
Well basically, re-write the above sentence, and that's how Stracey came out in the 2nd, and kept pilling on the pressure until Napoles wilted in the 6th: but no way was Stracey supposed to win that fight..
Battling Siki KOing Georges Carpentier for the LH title was also considered a big shock at the time and has been mentioned so in many historical write-ups..
Carlos Mausa taking the WBA LWW strap from Vivian Harris was another strange one.. Mausa was crap, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing.. It was like Harris was in Alice in Wonderland while Mausa perfected his cricketing 'slow spin'