Has there ever been a bigger upset in boxing . . . .

No. Nothing is close.

 

Not just in Boxing but it is one of the biggest upsets in Sports period.

 

I was only like 18 at the time, and a die-hard Tyson fanatic. I remember how disappointed and in utter disbelief I was when watching the fight. I couldn't believe what was happening. Tyson was just standing there. He ain't punching back, and when he throws his jab, he falls into Buster. Wtf is going on? Then came the inevitable round whre Tyson got KTFO. I couldn't believe it. I was so dissapointed, I got up and shut the TV off in front of my family to their surprise, of course. I remember saying, "it is over." And it truely was.

 

Not the biggest but Hoya vs Pac
Prescott against Khan in the U.K.
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douglas ko Iron Mike, cant imagine the odds

 

When i was in primary school, about 8 years old...afew years after the Douglas vs Tyson fight.

I remember one of my mate's saying...

"Buster Douglas was the first man to beat Mike Tyson"

This was in the play ground, when we where play fighting.

Now we where just kids in a school play ground talking about this event.

Thats how big it was.

 

What he said, i can't do better. To see invincibility crumble as it did was so hard on the senses. Well put BF.

 

prescott against khan??? that was no suprise to ANYONE who knew anything about boxing

 

No the biggest upset in boxing history at the Hwy is Ali vs. the invincible George Foreman 1. And 2 a young upstart Ali against the most feared Hwy of all-time Sonny Liston. To say Mike was unbeatable, was all media hype, Tony Tucker should've beated him, and he was a limited fighter, but big enough to hold Mike off. If he had used his jab has Douglas did, the same result would have happened years earlier.

 

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almost everyone thought presscot was an unproven commodity with a padded record. another hand picked patsy by warren, whose lone tv appearance was going the distance on fnf. the betting odds reflected that. so it was quite a surprise to see him wipe out khan in less than a minute.

was'nt doiglas something like a 42-1 underdog?. i'd have laid down my lifesavings on buster if i had a time machine now.

 

Ali -Liston -1 was a bigger upset, so was Braddok over Max Baer..

 

no it wasn't liston had lost before . so had baer.

tyson at the time was truly invincable and undefeated to boot. hadn't even come close to losing a fight.


it is the biggest uppset in boxing and IMO sports. 42-1 was being gracious. a tyson win was such a forgone conclusion that only a handfull of reporters even covered the fight :shock: