Most One Sided Upsets

Vernon Forrest-Shane Mosley 1
Michael Bentt-Tommy Morrison
Terry Norris-Sugar Ray Leonard
Daniel Dubois-Anthony Joshua

 

Jack Dempsey vs. Gene Tunney I
In their first fight, Tunney won every round and completely neutralized Dempsey. I can't think of another championship fight in which the reigning world champion lost every single round and the fight still went the full distance.

 

Jeff Chandler - Richie Sandoval. That wasn't Chandler in there that night, what a mess. I'm not sure whether it was the rumored drug use or what, but he ended up getting a whooping and barely fought at all.

Do i see Saad Muhammad vs Qawi yet? Qawi put an absolute whooping on him despite being about a 7/1 underedog. Also, i think Qawi was the underdog vs Rossman? He whooped him too.

Benitez would have been favored over Mustafa Hamsho, but he barely won a round.

Wilfredo Gomez was a substantial favorite over Salvador Sanchez. Whilst the official scoring was close and Gomez hung reasonably tough, personally I though Sanchez bossed him quite a bit and always looked the winner after sitting him down 40 seconds into the fight. It was all uphill for Wilfredo, no matter how hard he tried.

 

Tszyu Murtazaliev

 

Honeyghan vs Curry for me.

 

Victor Galindez vs Mike Rossman 1, on the undercard for the Ali-Spinks rematch.

 

I realized Schmelling - Louis I was also an upset.

Louis was hot zhyt and Max was an old, little known underdog; but he studied Louis methodically and figured out his flaws.

People was expecting Louis to make short work of Max; instead got his punk azz schooled.

The rematch was a different story.

 

Hi Buddy.
Well, he wasn't a little known underdog KB, just to put in context he was a former champ, and had fought some very good fighters including Max Bear, and Mickey Walker, plus Jack Sharkey for the title, but you are correct in that Louis was favoured to add Max to his culling of ex champs, as to the flaws, the one glaring flaw that Max honed in on, was that Joe would jab, then leave the arm extended for a fraction to long, leaving time for a overhand right, of which Max exploited time and again, the famous quote from Max in the run up to the fight was " I see something " if any of this is not so, then our resident historian @mcvey will correct me, in a gentle manner I would hope.
stay safe KB, chat soon.
Mike.

 

Ricky Hatton vs Kosta Tyszu …there were a lot of people on this very same forum ….who were eating crow the next morning

 

Alejandro Gonzalez vs Kevin Kelly …and what’s interesting is that it was part of an HBO double header …Lennox Lewis vs Oliver McCall was the other fight ….both of the featured fighters lost

 

Marlon Starling vs Lloyd Honeyghan was a one sided upset as well

 

Pac-man v Barrera was the first one in my mind.
And Hopkins - Trinidad. Both losers in those fights were on absolute tears.

 

I have to say, re Gomez vs Sanchez, you’ve provided a great example of a fight in which, while the scorecards were close and arguably justified, one guy was still getting the absolute stuffing knocked out of him all the while. I think Sanchez would’ve still won but it’s hard to account for how much that early KD in its own right took out of Wilfredo and set him up for the beating that ensued.

As a side note, some close scorecards don’t reflect defining momentum shifts already in play.

Perhaps an example of same are the cards for Leonard vs Duran were somewhat close upon Roberto’s surrender but Ray was pulling away at that point and looking at an ultimate wide UD had it gone the distance.

Likewise for Ali vs Liston 1. Close cards up until Liston’s surrender but Ali was clearly on the way to taking full control at the close of round 7.

 

Don Jordan-Virgil Atkins I

Atkins was a vicious puncher, 2 terrific kos of the dangerous former champ Tony DeMarco and a one-sided 4 round demolition of the talented Vince Martinez made Virgil a very dangerous opponent for anyone.

Don Jordan was a tricky boxer with little power.

Atkins was completely outboxed by his crafty opponent, was even worse in the rematch.

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Yeah the initial knockdown sure put him in a spot, didn't it. Sanchez just came to fight, he simply wasn't going to lose that night. Despite being the underdog against an unbeaten power puncher with 32 stoppages in 32 wins and just a 6 round draw on debut as the biggest negative, Sanchez oozed confidence and an almost arrogant, superior air. Fear or the thought of losing was non existent on his exterior. It's one of the great performances IMO. Gomez was a multi faceted boxer/puncher in the true sense of the description and Sanchez took him apart in segments.

Yes, the Duran rematch was already scripted by the time he quit, as was Liston - Ali.