Biggest upsets in Boxing and why they happend

Might not be that big but Forrest mayorga

 

Bradley pac

 

Are you taking the p*ss?

 

Barrera v Jnr Jones

Barrera looked unbeatable and was being called the next Julio Cesar Chavez.

 

With your imagination you should work in Hollywood writing film scripts. Your penchant for fantasy is amazing.

Try getting this through your imaginative skull.

No one from the Tszyu camp including Kostya himself, did at the time, or has ever done since, complain about dirty tactics. So your opinion on the subject is worthless.

Now here is something for you to really get your teeth into. The only problem in that fight was a perfectly legitimate body shot from the Aussie / Russian that had Hatton down for at least 25 seconds was wrongly ruled a foul by Dave Parris.

That, and only that is what leaves a sour taste to that fight.

Your typical yank anti British garbage just makes look an idiot, even allowing for your revisionist fantasising.:yep

 

To be fair I don't think it was that much of an upset, just Ray's ignorance of the man.

I think you will find Ray was on the road with his Vaudeville act at the time with him being the tap dancer. The fights were just fought to help pay for it. I think Randy's people asked for a title fight, and Ray not knowing too much about Turpin was confident enough to agree. Obviously Turpin had trained like never before and got the decision.

The much more realistic version happened 90 days later in the rematch.

Oh yeah, Britain was the last venue on this whistle stop tour of Europe, before Ray sailed back to New York. I think he appeared at the London Palladium, but I'm not too sure.

This is what makes me laugh about the soppy Jones Jr fanboys they claim he is some kind of god because he played basketball and boxed, yet SRR was touring with a big troop of Vaudeville performers working most nights, and fighting once a month at the same time.

 

it sounded like you were talking about hopkins vs trinadad when pappa trinadad had to cut through the cast on baby trinadads left hand and rewrap

 

And the results afterwards aswell hahaha.

 

Thanks for clearing that one up mate.:huh

 

And survived a first round known down.

 

Rahman vs lewis

 

Moorer vs Holyfield I think was a big upset?

 

This one is a curious choice. Jones was obviously well finished at top level by this point. He hadn't won a meaningful fight in 4 years.

 

I agree I thought so too.

 

In terms of fights I've seen during my time as a boxing fan:
Hopkins - Trinidad. Tito was seen as a KO machine, steamrollering his way through a new weight division. Hopkins was viewed as a solid workhorse but showed here how great he was.
Forrest - Mosley. Sugar Shane was legit being talked about in the same breath as the great old timers. Forrest was seen as a solid champion but was pretty under the radar. Vernon showed that Mosley struggled with a particular style, good as Shane was. And then went on to lose to Mayorga, of course - another shock.
Rahman - Lewis. As much as I like LL, he approached this fight with arrogance - shooting a movie, dismissing the altitude and the opponent - and paid the price. The rematch showed what he was capable of.
Tarver-Jones 2. This was actually the most shocking for me. Jones was pretty much seen as unbeatable, riding high after the HW belt win. He'd struggled somewhat with Tarver in fight 1 but people felt he had now acclimatised to the weight loss and was gonna do a Griffin 2 on Antonio. Why did it happen? Tarver was a very good fighter. But, in hindsight, I believe Jones was at the beginning of a long and terminal slide. He never looked the same again as he did at his best, despite continuing long, long beyond his prime.