Great non heavyweight upset

James Toney over Michael Nunn. Nunn was undefeted and a top 10 pound for pound boxer. With talk of him being an all time great. Te fight was in his hometown as well. Toney was a reltive unknown at the time.

 

Texan Stevie Cruz over Barry McGuigan in 1986.

(By trade Cruz was a plumber's helper in Fort Worth, with no money in his savings account and a floating address. He was just Nobody from nowhere, and he would be going home soon.)

 

Lloyd Honeyghan-Donald Curry
Emile Griffith-Dick Tiger I
Fighting Harada-Eder Jofre
Billy Backus-Jose Napoles (a fluke upset)
Wilfred Bemitez-Antonio Cervantes

 

It probably wasnt that big an upset elsewhere, but in Australia at least, Fenech v Nelson II almost defied belief.

 

Kirklang Laing - Roberto Duran
Carlos Monzon - Nino Benvenuti

 

jorge vaca vs lloyd honeyghan

 

Boxing's next superstar Danny Romero being stopped by journeyman trial-horse Willy Salazar.

Zahir Raheem whipping Erik Morales was a fair upset as well.

 

Willy Wise over Chavez
Pink Cat Walker over Arguello
Eric Winbush ko'ing Saad Muhammad was big & blew out the candles
Navarette over Boza Edwards
Stafford over Cuevas blew out the candles as well
Jacquot over Curry was another loss not many saw coming
Fenech ko'd badly by both Holiday and Grove
Verderosa over O'Grady
Hiranaka over Rosario was a big upset at the time
Word over Hembrick was big at the time.

 

Stole mine. Robinson-Turpin is in my opinion the greatest non hw upset of all time. not so much tiger jones because jones was a real good fighter and robinson was coming off a long layoff. no one really knew what he had.

 

Zivic beating Armstrong.

 

Carlos Baldomir- Zab Judah

Al McCoy-George Chip (How big an upset was this? McCoy's own father, who was in attendance, wouldn't bet on him.)

Young Corbett-Terry McGovern (Terrible Terry was thought to be unbeatable at the time.)

Marco Antonio Rubio-Franciso Bojado

 

Yeah that was a pretty big deal.

 

turpin wasn't surprised:good

 

Great post. :good:good