Biggest upsets in Boxing and why they happend

Douglas vs Tyson is possibly the biggest and most famous of them all.

Ali vs Liston was a big one too.

Pacquaio Barrera and Calzage Lacy in the manner they won

Foreman vs Moorer

Theres loads of them

 

Wlad/Sanders was a shocking upset. Corrie shocked the world. the odds for that fight were similar to the ones for Tyson/Douglas.

 

Calzaghe Jones. Calzaghe overcame his fear of flying to take on the legendary Jones in his own backyard, and completely took him to school.

 

Obviously, Hagler-Leonard, Tyson-Douglas and McClellan-Benn are the three obvious ones. Curry-Honeyghan and Pedroza-McGuigan are there.

For the MANNER, Kalambay-Nunn and Toney-Jones are up there. Even Ruddock-Lewis.

Mostly the big betting favourite wasn't 100% fit or at their best. Like Hagler being inactive and slowing down, Tyson not training near as hard as before, McClellan having a useless team around him, Curry and Toney struggling severely with the weight, etc.

Benn-Watson was another big upset. Trinidad-Hopkins let's not forget.

 

chris byrd over vitali bitchko

 

LOL. Jones was shot to **** and Calzaghe was the favorite. That's the Calzaghe recipe. Duck and duck til they get old and shot.

 

Douglas vs Tyson is the biggest even if tyson was in a bad way

 

The excuse mongers for the 23 year old Tyson make me laugh.

How about he kept getting hit back by a guy who wasn't afraid of him, and didn't know what to do about it? Thats the truth. Just look at what they fed him after that fight to build the poor little thugs confidence. Then a tough rematch with Ruddock, and more **** to make him feel good until Holyfield, and the total exposure of the feeble minded bully boy.

 

The 5 biggest I can think of:

Douglas KO10 Tyson - Everyone has their own opinion on this one, but a combination of an inspired Douglas and under-trained Tyson led to the biggest upset in boxing history

Backus KO4 Napoles - Freak cut in the first round led to the stoppage, but still an unthinkable result beforehand

Braddock W15 Baer - Similar to Douglas-Tyson in that motivation was a factor, but Baer being overrated and Braddock underrated were just as important to the upset

Turpin W15 Robinson - It was Robinson's 7th fight in 6 countries in less than 2 months, and Turpin for a brief period was an exceptional fighter

Randall W12 Chavez - There were signs pointing to a Chavez upset, but no-one thought that JC's first official loss in 90 fights would be to Randall, who delivered on his talent late in his career

 

Foreman winning the title at age 77 or something?

 

There's a difference between "biggest upsets" and "makes the delusional Klitlickers upset".

 

Tarver-Jones

A perfectly timed punch over a faded but still elite level Jones.. The punch instantly knocked Jones from faded to shot, as it was too much of an obstacle to overcome at that stage in his career, for the style of fighter Roy Jones was.

Foreman-Moorer

As much as Moorer doesn't want to admit it, Big George was setting that punch up all fight until the perfect time, BANG... Regains the title 20 some odd years after he first held it.

Those were the two most memorable for me.. I was still a little young to fully understand Tyson-Douglas at the time. But I do remember my family being in shock.

 

jones tarver happened because tarver was a skilled counter puncher who was scared of roy.he just missed with a similar punch in rd 1.

tyson douglas happended because tyson underestimated him but also:douglas was 6"4 with good handspeed,power and footwork who wasn't scared and put it all together for one night.he boxed beautifully,teeing off and turning mike,tying him up in close and going back to work.the douglas who fought that night would've beat holyfield months later.

 

The main reason Donald Curry lost to Honeyghan was he had been sick with the flu. Had not been able to train so was weak & very out of shape. he was also over the weight limit & had to sweat it off. There is no way he should have been in the ring that night. His trainer Paul Reyes wanted to pull him out but was outvoted