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    Biggest Upsets of All Time?

    I'm not talking fights where one guy was favored or mostly favored, I mean when NOBODY was picking this guy to win and he did. We've had fights like Tyson/Holyfield where most people were picking Tyson but there were still a small percentage who thought Evander would pull it off. So you know what I mean.

    Here's my list...

    Muhammad Ali vs Foreman (People were worried about Ali)
    Marvin Hagler vs SRL (Just it being close was a shock)
    Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas (Gotta be everyone's #1)
    Humberto Gonzalez vs Saman Sorjaturong (Was also FOTY)
    Vince Phillips vs Kostya Tszyu (Still shocking now)
    Hasim Rahman vs Lennox Lewis 1 (Lennox took him lightly)
    Iran Barkley vs Thomas Hearns (Upset of the year)
    Ricardo Mayorga vs Vernon Forrest (Very shocking)
    Zahir Raheem vs Erik Morales (Morales had just beat Pacquiao)
    Carlos Baldomir vs Zab Judah (Carlos could only pay for 1 belt)
    Sonny Boy Jaro vs Wonjongkam - (I couldn't believe I read this)
    Roman Gonzalez vs Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (Biggest in years)
    Manny Pacquaio vs Jeff Horn (Horn was a former school teacher)

    Feel free to discuss and add more. Especially classic ones!
    Last edited by JK1700; 07-09-2017, 07:05 PM.
    Tags: biggest, time?, upsets
    #2
    Tyson vs Douglas is without a doubt #1. There is no way you can argue any different.

    I'll give you another one. Clay vs Liston I. No one thought Clay would win. They all thought he was crazy!

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      #3
      Originally posted by b morph View Post
      Tyson vs Douglas is without a doubt #1. There is no way you can argue any different.

      I'll give you another one. Clay vs Liston I. No one thought Clay would win. They all thought he was crazy!
      Oh yeah, that was a big one. He was a 10-1 underdog if I remember right. They're coming back to me now - Julio Cesar Chavez vs Frankie Randall, SRR vs Randy Turpin were also up there. Chavez fight was very surprising to a lot of people.
      Last edited by JK1700; 07-09-2017, 07:41 PM.

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        #4
        Good calls on these fights. I think the only upset I ever picked right was Holyfield beating Tyson. Every other time, I thought there was no way the guy that won could've won going into the fight and thought WOAH, no way, afterwards. Even when Bowe fought Golota, I thought who the hell is this guy, he's probably an easy tune up for Bowe haha. How wrong I and a lot of other people were.

        Randall I remember rooting for because, at the time, I just wanted SOMEONE to finally beat Chavez. JCC always seemed to think he deserved every decision because of who he was and because he had Don King as a promoter.

        Judges back then all seemed to be lapping Chavez's balls, trying to sell us the Whitaker fight as a draw with straight faces and only grudgingly giving Randall the nod after two points deducted for low blows, giving Randall a 1 point edge on the deciding scorecard. I mean geez, the guy was good enough to win on his own merit without all the bias, he didn't need anymore advantage to win most of the time.

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          #5
          Pacquaio vs Ledwaba was quite an upset at the time.

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            #6
            Originally posted by b morph View Post
            Tyson vs Douglas is without a doubt #1. There is no way you can argue any different.

            I'll give you another one. Clay vs Liston I. No one thought Clay would win. They all thought he was crazy!
            i think liston though he was too and that was to the winner's advantage.

            a guess a classic example would be braddock over baer
            and schemling over louis
            turpin robinson

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              #7
              A couple of mine,
              Leon Spinks over Ali
              Douglas- Tyson

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                #8
                cotto losing to margacheato
                vernon losing to mayorga 2x
                morrison losing to bentt
                wlad losing to brewster
                zab and gatti losing to baldo
                cooney losing to spinks
                norris losing to mullings
                foreman and liston losing to ali

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                  #9
                  Regarding Chocolatito vs Ruvingsai, a lot people (well not a lot, but the people that watch the small classes) knew that Ruvingsai was a tough guy, he gave Cuadras hell and Cuadras himself gave Gonzales hell.
                  Gonzales wasn't having top performances since Viloria and was looking very discouraged between rounds in the Cuadras fight (i think he lost by three points).
                  People were overwhelmingly picking Chocolatito because is the only name that they knew at the weight and because HBO specially Kellerman, were hyping Gonzales a way too much.

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                    #10
                    Got one. Tyson Fury vs Wladimer Klitschko. BOOM!

                    And what a **** fight. Probably one of the worst fights I've ever seen.

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