Your craziest hypothetical upset pick(s)

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  1. Mike Gould

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    Thomas Hearns TKO4 Floyd Mayweather
    Thomas Hearns KO2 Manny Pacquaio
    Thomas Hearns TKO3 Keith Thurman
    Thomas Hearns TKO3 Terrance Crawford
    Bernard Hopkins Split Decision 12 Sugar Ray Robinson
    Larry Holmes TKO8 Wladimir Klitschko
    Prince Charles Williams TKO9 Roy Jones
    Lennox Lewis KO2 Deontay Wilder

    In my mind, Thomas Hearns was a monster welter. If he didn't blow you out early, he could also outbox you. He would've beat Sugar Ray Leonard if their first fight was scheduled for 12 rounds. All the welters mentioned above were too small to beat Hearns in my opinion.

    Lennox was very aggressive against tall guys. I can see him taking the fight to Wilder and giving him no room to land his big right properly. I don't think Wilder would be very comfortable with Lennox on the inside as he would be throwing that nasty, borderline legal, head-holding uppercut and he was just plain mean and vicious against tall boxers like Wilder (see Grant, Biggs, Golota, Briggs, V. Klitschko, Ruddock, Akinwande...).

    Prime Prince Charles Williams was a very physical and strong light-heavyweight. I can picture him taking the fight to Jones and wearing him down for a later rounds stoppage a la Glen Johnson.
     
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  2. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Lol wide decision win for Moore stand by it
     
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  3. swagdelfadeel

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    Prime Frazier KO7 Foreman
    Prime Dempsey TKO8 Tyson
     
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  4. George Crowcroft

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    Yeah, I think we have a winner.
    This and @PhillyPhan69's Eubank Sr stops Jones.
     
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  5. Jel

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    Kirkland Laing to beat Roberto Duran. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
     
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  6. PhillyPhan69

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    Now that is crazy lol! I wouldn’t pick it but I hope you would be right!
     
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  7. PhillyPhan69

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    I know I picked Eubank (still do and ok if no one agrees lol), not sure I picked a stoppage but perhaps I did? As my wife tells me I say some crazy stuff from time to time...oh well

    I still think (ok sometimes) Hatton beats Floyd without Joe Cortez as the ref,
     
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  8. George Crowcroft

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    Love this one. Dunno if I agree, but I'm a fan.
     
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  9. PhillyPhan69

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    :( Well I did pick him to win in real time...not my best night I must say! Fortunately I get some right every now and then lol

    still the only fight my wife ever watched with me and got excited about!
     
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  10. Mike Gould

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    I can imagine the outrage if someone posted Ruiz-Joshua before it actually happened lol. Upsets (and hypothetical upsets) are what make boxing the most intriguing of sports imo.
     
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  11. PhillyPhan69

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    agreed no one I know picked Buster Douglas to beat Tyson, I doubt many picked schmeling to beat Louis, I thought Ruiz was an embarrassing fight for Joshua (although I get he was a replacement), but I didn’t give him much chance...hardly anyone even in the U.K. was picking Calzaghe over Lacy!

    the upsets are part of the fun and they often happen when and where we least expect them!
     
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  12. Mike Gould

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    I remember feeling embarrassed for Ruiz when they did the weigh-in and he had to stand next to the Adonis Joshua lol. In retrospect, he was a better and more accomplished fighter than the original opponent ("Big Baby" Miller), but physically he looked out of place. Doug Fischer wrote that Ruiz is such a nice guy in person it can cause certain opponents to let their guard down and not be on high alert as was obviously the case in Joshua's first fight against Ruiz.
     
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  13. George Crowcroft

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    @robert ungurean
     
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  14. NoNeck

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    Gamboa probably stops Barrera.
     
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  15. The Morlocks

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    You rang??

    Oh! Ok!

    Let's see. Probably not too irrationally but 8 yr old Barney Fire trained Opie Cunningham by rsf over Sunman Gutetalkmncs or any other sub 112 pound fighter.

    1 more-Juaquin AquaGym no 9 Jeff Chandler.
     
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