Biggest upset you ever called?

These were my 2 picks off the top of my head!

 

I also called Pac/Oscar though I thought it would go the distance.

 

I had Alexander to stop Urango.

 

Leonard to beat Hagler

Biggest prices with money put down was Lewis to KO Grant in R1 (20-1) and R2 (20-1), and Mayweather to win R10 v Hatton at 33-1. Not big money but it paid for a good weekend

Again not big money but i had Crisanto Espana @ 3-1 to beat Meldrick Taylor going onto Lewis @ evens to beat Ruddock. A 7-1 double.


EDIT- Maybe not this next fight but im doing Tyson Fury to be KO'd in 1 round as he steps up in class. I'll probably do it over a number of fights. The way he holds up his chin, its just begging to be hit

 

Pascal vs Dawson
Pacquaio vs Hatton

 

I don't know if these are the biggest but I called Douglas-Tyson, though only after watching round 1 so it wasn't worth jack.

Holyfield-Tyson I got me a bunch a' money. I had an uncle who still couldn't believe that Tyson would get beaten by Holyfield (we had many an argument about my long-held belief that Holyfield would've beaten Tyson from '89 on). So we bet on the rematch and I took his money too.

Barrera-Hamed by knockout.

Pacquaio-De La Hoya by knockout.

 

Hatton-Tszyu

 

I betted on underdawgs Holyfield And Danny Williams to KO Tinfoil in 1996 And 2004. I knew they as WARRIORS would stand up to teh spineless bully Tinkerbell, fight back And shatter his fragile Glass Heart.

 

Hopkins-Pavlik is the only notable one.

 

I suppose it depends on what you constitute to be an upset; for example, I picked Calzaghe to do a job on Lacy with a rarely felt degree of confidence, which didn't, to me, make it an upset despite general opinion and the bookies' odds. It's all relative as far I can see. That being said, I've called a fair few 'upsets' on lesser confidence as well as bollocksing up a few. In the last 5-10 years:

Toney to beat Holyfield. It was a tentative one but I always imagined that Toney's style and level of craft in his upper body would throw Holyfield for a loop. Didn't forsee the stoppage though.

Morales to outpoint Pacquiao. Less of an upset to me than some but I was the only one in my group of friends to call this one.

Pavlik to knock Taylor out. Taylor just didn't convince me from his early days, though ironically at the time when cheering Pavlik on, a voice somewhere from the ether was saying to me that Hopkins would've made Pavlik look daft.

Barrera to do Hamed over. Maybe not the biggest upset but I was only 15 at the time, so it has a place on the mantlepiece for that reason alone.

I had a feeling that Montiel was long overdue for a big one against Hasegawa but never really saw it coming in such a big way, thus ignoring my instinct and going for Hasegawa along with everyone else. Got sphincter failure with Ward-Kessler too and although I'd never claim to have anticipated the first Pacquaio-Barrera fight, Barrera's coasting against duff opposition (Morales excluded) post-Hamed adjoined with his pre-fight distractions and the ominous look of Pacquiao, made me nervous.

Mijares-Darchinyan. Again, never in such a brutal way but the gut feeling was there.

Penalosa-Gonzalez. Jezzer had looked decent enough against Ponce de Leon for me to be confident in him here and he didn't let me down.

On the other hand.....

Hatton-Tszyu
Taylor-Hopkins (both)
Lewis-Rahman I (still thought that Lewis would sleepwalk it despite everything)
Moore-Rhodes and plenty more either way.....

Be it through a sharp eye or sheer blind luck and guesswork, I've been right more often than I've been wrong, whatever that may mean. I tend to abstain though nowadays and wait for a fighter to retire instead. I've found that wasting my time - and my life in general - deliberating which man can punch the other man's brain through his mouth and nose from the bestest angle is far more rewarding when I know that no twat can ever prove me wrong about it. A bit like when you hear someone saying that they could do a better job than Fabio Capello before you point out that they're sat on the pavement with 8 cans of special brew, perilously close to a freshly steaming dog turd, waiting for Wetherspoons to open. At 8.00 in the morning.

 

...Some great calls there... but then you had to go skipping right over the deep end. Perhaps that correlation between genious and insanity finds evidence with our man Tin Ribs. Max Weber anyone?

 

I've picked some real clunkers and have fallen flat...But most times off the top of my head done okay.
Holyfield/Tyson
Pac/DLH
Margarito/Cotto
Mosely/Margarito

 

Hopkins over Pavlik by Clinic

Said prior to the fight that it would be as one sided as the Trinidad fight when Fat Lards Like Dan Rafeal were predicting Pavlik by KO


Calzaghe over Lacy by Clinic based on Lacey's fight with Sheika ..

 

Why not? Hopkins had just TWICE gotten beat by Jermaine Taylor...and Kelly Pavlik TWICE beat Jermaine Taylor. Perfectly reasonable.

 

By KO over Hopkins :think Thats what I found un reasonable ..