Best examples of unsophisticated “lesser” boxers winning over intelligent types (read OP)

Jarrett Hurd over Lara (even though I thought Lara won)

 

Graziano / Janiro
Monzon /Benvenuti
Duran / Buchanan ( at the time )

 

Chavez arguably beating Whitaker.

 

Sung Kil Moon beating Hilario Zapata and Gilberto Roman

 

Folley way past his prime

 

So was London.

 

I literally just watched this the other day (posted my scorecard on the thread on Sunday). I totally agree with you on Folley past his prime and @bolo specialist that London was past his prime as well. But the gameplan London implemented worked and although I think the Folley of a few years earlier would have been able to deal with it, to the letter of the law which is the OP, this really met the criteria.

 

Ross Puritty over Wladmir Klitschko

 

Wilder KOing Ortiz perhaps. serious question, what's with Ortiz' tremendous reputation, is he a boxer or a big hitter ?

 

Ruben Olivares knocking out Lionel Rose
Chartchai Chionoi knocking out Walter McGowan
Tae Shik Kim and Juan Herrera knocking out Luis Ibarra.

 

I always thought of him as a hitter first, w/ some southpaw boxing skills.

 

Battling Nelson over Joe Gans.

 

Boxing hipsters liked to pretend that Ortiz was the best HW on the planet for a while because of his skillz (and because they wanted to be subversive and look cool by being weird and pretending to like or even know anything about the Cuban boxing system).