Yeah, have never heard that he trained him but it was terrible matchmaking. As for Mwakinyo, just goes to show that if you haven’t got a following/big promoter backing you then a big win isn’t a guarantee of big opportunities. It’s who you know... One things for sure, Eddie won’t be calling him again. He’d probably ice Connor Benn as well
I wonder what the odds on Lloyd Honeyghan beating Donald Curry were when they fought. Curry was rated as a top 5 P4P fighter ahead of the fight, yet the Ragamuffin Man ruined him.
Alex Arthur vs Michael Gomez way back in 2003 when AAA was being tipped as a future world star. It all went horribly wrong, and AAA turned up with a shitty attitude and got his backside handed to him by the British level and rank outsider Gomez.
Ali/Foreman Clay/ Liston Ali/ Norton 1 Honeygan/ Curry Spinks/Ali 1 Randal/Chavez Napoles/Backus 1 Robinson/Turpin 1
I actually was thinking about that guy the other day and had a look on boxers see what he has been upto since , the answer not a great deal. Surprised non of the main stream promoters took a punt on him.
I remember British Bantam Champ and former multiple ABA Champion and Olympian Ray Gilbody getting bludgeoned by debutant Sandy Odanga. As well as being his debut I'm pretty sure Odanga was a late sub too.
Not available in my country, not going to install a vpn for this. What I do read is that somehow Kovalev vs Cleverly is among them... how?! I remember Kovalev being the slight betting favorite in the US and UK, only to see the odds shifting in the UK the closer the fight came, while in the US Kovalev remained the slight favorite to even odds. In the Kirk 2013 league it was about 50/50 in picks, with the sentiment that Kovalev looked more impressive but lacking experience and the fight's location (the fight showed how big of a factor that was) made a lot go for Cleverly by close decision. It wasn't an upset at all.
This was a big shock, the 27-0 Mandingo Warrior getting smashed up by a guy who had never shown any real knockout power This content is protected
Jamie Moore's first defeat to Scott Dixon. Moore was the exciting up and coming prospect and Dixon was brought in at a week's notice and was still partying in Ibiza when he got the phone call about the fight and was brought in as an opponent expected to lose. After getting dropped early (IIRC) Dixon fought back brilliantly and ended up stopping Moore in the second half of the fight.
When Lennox lost to Rahman. Would of loved to of known the odds for that. Also when Danny Williams beat Mike Tyson. My dad was 100% certain that Danny was going to win so stuck 250 on. Can't remember how much he won back, but he was as happy as a pig in **** lol
First time I've seen that, cheers. Love the after fight where he denies that he was down three times.
No worries pal, it kind of gets forgotten about but, as the commentary team explain, it was huge at the time because this was supposed to be a walk in the park carrying little if any threat. Basically Ishida got the job done faster than Alvarez did 4 years later.
