Biggest upsets in 2017 boxing.

Correct, for odds expressed "American style" you just divide by a hundred to get the per dollar value.

 

Dimitrenko getting trounced should never be a shock, he sucks.

(then again, Granat doesn't exactly pass the eye test himself. They both suck..)

 

So to put that in perspective, Lamont Peterson is a +1150 underdog, the same that Robinson Castellanos was facing Yuriorkis Gamboa. So right off the bat, Peterson could match the #7 biggest numerical upset of 2017, as early as January 27th. Pimp move if he could pull it off.

 

You do understand that that isn't why, and has nothing to do with where he is ranked numerically on the list, right?

 

When you stop and think about it, strip away the name Paulie Malignaggi (and while he still had name value, he wasn't really all that valuable a win qualitatively at that point as he was shot to bits and hadn't produced much world class form since his last-hurrah stint in 2013, in the Broner and Judah fights) and there is nothing on Eggington's resume compared with Mimoune's to have suggested the latter should be +850. Mimoune had 2 losses, one a SD, to reasonable competition, Euro prospects, no less reasonable than Johnny Coyle or Dale Evans to be certain. The best h2h fighter between their records was Skeete, to whom Eggington lost. The second or third best actual win for Eggington (in reality that is, recognizing that Malignaggi by then was pretty worthless), after Gavin and maybe Vassell, is Ceferino Rodríguez - and guess what?? Mimoune actually low-key has a shutout victory over then-unbeaten Rodríguez two full years before Eggington got to him!

 

Globalization, baby. Different websites might fluctuate a little from one another but the odds are mostly going to be in the same general ballpark (sorry, regional sports colloquialism there - same general neighborhood)

 

Probably because he's a prime athlete (despite being in a different combat sport) while Mayweather was considered very old and unlikely to have another return to form after yet another extended layoff in him. Not to mention that McGregor is a much bigger man and until Diaz exposed him was considered this supremely dangerous juggernaut and force of destruction. The hype manufactured around him was, by design, an echo of the buzz around prime Mike Tyson...and even after he was proven mortal some of his mystique remained (even among the normally level-headed pro handicappers, it seems)