Fights that were big but turned out to be (almost) mismatches

Floyd Mayweather-Diego Corrales: Not a big "event", but a very big fight among boxing enthusiasts. The odds were close to even, but the fight hardly was.

Roy Jones-James Toney: refer to above.

 

Hearns-Duran

 

Hearns vs Cuevas: Hearns was the up and coming new sensation but Cuevas was a devastating puncher with an cast iron jaw. Most fancied Cuevas to beat the young Tommy Hearns but when the bell rang Tommy totally dominated the fight and knocked out the long time WBA Welterweight Champion in the second round with a tremendous right that had him wobbling all over the place, desperate to stay upright.

Lewis vs Ruddock: Ruddock had just been 19 rounds with Iron Mike Tyson and had never been off his feet. He was expected to give the up and coming Lennox Lewis a stern test. Perhaps it was a little too much too soon for the young Lewis but what happened instead was that Lewis imposed his will, and right hand, and hurt Ruddock with almost every shot, flooring him 3 times and forcing a one-sided stoppage in the 2nd round.

 

Willard Dempsey, Willard was the betting favourite.

Schmeling Risko, Risko was the heir apparent to Gene Tunneys throne and Schmeling the unknown European fighter who was only there because he looked like Jack Dempsey.

 

Wright-Trinidad was one of the worst; that immediately comes to my mind.

I had a creeping feeling it was going to end up like that, but I stuck with my awful prediction (I had Trinidad winning late).

It was a big fight, big crowd, PPV ... and Tito didn't win one round on my card.

 

Wifredo Gomez's destruction of Carlos Zarate.

Might even put Sanchez's destruction of Wilfredo Gomez.

 

Zelenoff vs Hartly.

Zelenoff was acting and looking confident and ready to fight. Unfortunately for him looking and acting confident doesn't make up for not having talent or confidence.
Hartly dominated Z with constant pressure

 

Benn-Barkley
Hearns-Barkley I
Forrest-Mayorga I
Frazier-Foreman

 

Too bad Lewis Tyson didn't happen earlier. What a fight that could've been.

 

tyson vs douglas

if i didnt know the history and just watched the fight, this was a mismatch on the night

 

Do you mean it was almost a mismatch until Barkley sparked him? Because Hearns was killing Iran.

 

You think that Dempsey-Fulton could be categorized here as well? Weren't the odds on them pretty much even? I think it was viewed as a pick em' at the time, and it was the fight to determine which one would get the title shot against Willard.

 

Pacman v Hatton

 

Tyson vs bonecrusher smith
Holmes vs Frazier
Chavez vs Rosario
Rosario-Bramble
Curry-Honeyghan