Biggest upset you ever called?

I think Tito was only a slight favorite in Vegas... Kind of split/pick em with most real fans.

 

Douglass over Tyson, 1990, beautiful feeling, too.

 

I had a nifty on Ricky Burns to beat Martinez at 5/1.In betting terms,that's my best call.

 

Lacy/Calzaghe. Odds in Canada for Lacy were ******ed.

 

I was 14 years old and bet my dad $3 that Ingo would beat Patterson in their first fight.

I've won a few more since then, but that one stands out in my memory.

 

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I'm an old old mofo. :hat

 

Well yes, you must be old. You have got to be at least 110 to make anything aproaching considered opinion on that fight.

 

I picked Pac over De La Hoya.

I was only young but I remember thinking Holy would win again against Tyson.

I picked Prescott over Khan.

Probably some others dotted about that I can't remember.

 

Lloyd Honeyghan over Don Curry.

When the fight was signed up,I was like most others. Curry was the anointed successor to Marvin Hagler as the best pound for pound boxer in the world. So I saw Lloyd as putting up a good battle before the inevitable happened. However on the morning of the fight I saw a photo of Honeyghan,and he looked so damn positive that I got the smell of an incredible upset. I just had a strong........strong feeling.

 

Ali beating Foreman will always be my warmest memory ! I went round telling my friends that Ali would win,but I still feared that he'd lose.

 

I was in a room with mates (five of us, and three of us are in it for the long haul tonight for Morales Vs Garcia) and we were all having a laugh about Amir Khan's chin. One of my mate is a big Khan fan and will support him to the death, although he was in full acknowledgement of Khan's poor punch resistance.

I had told them that I'd seen Prescott against Abril and he wasn't up to much, and he was being brought in to be outsped and, with his K.O heavy undefeated record, quell any fears about Khan's fragility to the mainstream audience, who had seen him be badly hurt and knocked down on terrestrial TV and was now being expected to fork out £15.00 (about 25-30 bucks at the time) to watch him fight a guy pretty much no one had heard of.

Anyway, everyone else, a bit more casual than me but still highly knowledgeable on the last 10-15 years of boxing, was less cynical than I, and thought Khan would win well but in a decent fight, despite no footage of Prescott being aired.

And then, I saw Prescott on the pads warming up. I never make a predicition based on that, it tells us nothing. But we'd just been talking about Khan's 'Bambi On Ince' act against Craig Watson in the amateurs, and knowing that every so often some Colombian puncher turns out to be a monster, I made a bold prediction: Prescott in the first round, and probably inside a minute.

Que a lot of stoned and pissed up laughter and taunts. As is often the case, 5 pound bets were promptly offered and taken, we usually had individual bets going on for different fights between different members of the party. For this one, I held everyone to a bet that it wouldn't go past a round. 3 minutes was all Khan would have to not get overly involved for and everyone would be up bar me, who would be down a fair whack (I was what, 19/20 at the time?)

Everyone thought I was mental. I'm not particularly affluent, and as the youngest member of the group they put it down to a folly and predicted tears.

The first jab I jumped up and said "he's hurt Khan! His legs are gone!" No one else felt my alarm and were still sat down waiting for it to warm up, telling me to sit down and shut up

About 20 seconds later I looked a genius.

About 20 seconds after that everyone bar me was sweating. "What the ****" was thrown around liberally before talk turned to Amir Khan being unsafe to box on

Anyway, I was a few quid up, and use that every time I'm horribly wrong and lose out. Which is more often than not.

 

Was abril robbed v prescott?

 

I was robbed. Of precious time for having sit through it. Wasn't great.