Great non heavyweight upset

Carlos Monzon over Nino Benvenuti
Ruben Carter over Emile Griffith
Bernard Hopkins over Felix Trinidad
Pone Kingpetch over Pascual Perez

 

stracey beating napoles?
leonard beating hagler just HAS to be up there

 

Montell Griffin over Jones(yeah it's bs but still a win)
Brown over Norris
Pacquiao over Barrera
Barkley over Hearns
Raheem over Morales
JJ over Barrera

 

Sports Illustrated actually backed Leonard in the Hagler fight. I don't think the way Ray won the fight was that surprising. Had he mauled Hagler, or did the unthinkable and stopped him, then that would have been a huge upset. Ray's defeat of Hearns in their first fight was a bigger upset in the way that he won, stalking Tommy and looking for the KO, while Tommy got on his bycycle and tried box his way to a decision. Going in, most thought that the roles would have been reversed.

Duran over Barkley sure surprised me.

 

Duane Thomas beating Mugabi
Haugen W12 Camacho

 

Good list. I haven't seen it, but the bolded one especially jumps out to me. The guy only had 3 stoppage wins going into the fight with Muhammad.

I'll throw Tszyu-Phillips into the mix, too.

 

Other recent examples:

Jones-Tarver II
Judah-Baldomir
Marquez-John (officially)

 

I know where your coming from and there was a few picked leonard but the majority fancied hagler strongly. The bookies in the UK and Ireland had Leonard at 8-1 and its not often these guys are wrong