Fights where he underdog almost cracked an upset but fell short?

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    FThabxinfan Well-Known Member Full Member

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    These type of fights mostly ends by KO for the underdog,though..they did beat up the favorite to the punch before.
     
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    Dubois against Usyk if the referee was more lenient and Wallin against Fury.
     
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    Richard Evatt vs Junior Jones.

    Jones was down twice and behind on points until he rallied late on and got the stoppage.
     
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    Lyle versus Foreman. Foreman was on the floor and looked like a goner.

    Shavers versus Holmes. Ernie had Holmes deep en lalaland, but incredibly was unable to finish the job.
     
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    Billy Conn vs Joe Louis is a poster child for it.
     
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    Whitaker versus Hurtado, it was an amazing sight to see the relatively light hitting Sweet Pea turn Hitman, nearly knocking Diobelys through the ropes with consecutive unanswered blows. I was really disappointed in referee Mercante Jr that night, he stepped in late in my opinion.
     
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    Weaver v Holmes 1
    Witherspoon v Holmes
    Content v Saad
    Ayala v Red Lopez
    O’Grady v Watt
    Durrell v Moore
    Lopez v Saad
     
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    Edwin Rosario v Howard Davis
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    Troy Waters versus Terry Norris. He had Norris badly hurt
     
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    Bowe -Golota I i II. Fury- Ngannou
     
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    Bert Cooper in the 3rd round with Evander Holyfield
     
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    Rogers Mtagwa vs Juan Manuel Lopez

    Don´t know how Lopez survived those final rounds. Was never the same after this.
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    Mercante Jr. was awful. Whitaker was completely loading up on those left hands, so Arthur had lots of time to stop it but just stood there.
     
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    Honestly, I think he was probably just in a state of shock that Sweet Pea was actually going to win a fight by knockout.
     
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    Thomas Hearns vs Juan Domingo Roldan
    Naseem Hamed vs Kevin Kelley
    Ray Mancini vs Orlando Romero
     
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