Many possible upsets this week.

Castillo - no.
Welliver - hell no.
Mundine - yes!!

 

From ringside accounts on Twitter:

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The jerks at www.wbcboxing.tv didn't end up showing any live boxing tonight. Instead they showed Luis Concepción vs. Duvan Hernandez thrice in a row. :roll:

 

Why not? Salka is a very active fighter, whose only deserved loss could be argued to be to Garcia. (that he got robbed against Canelo's brother Ricardo Alvarez is almost universally believed, and he may have been screwed against old Spivey too)

Clay is gifted but has struggled to stay active, falling off the map a bit after his pair of losses in 2009. A fourteen month layoff was followed by a kayo of Jason Litzau's brother, and then eight months off, and then a quick succession of three fights at home in a span of seven months, then another eight months off, two victories over Lucero in a five month period, and then almost nineteen months off again before returning this year. His TKO of Herrera on FS1 this summer is very nice, but was his only meaningful action seen in over five years.

 

Three days in, Mundine has sprung the week's only upset.

 

Mundine & Heiland. That's it.

Kalenga will probably make for a third, and there is the remote chance of Zuniga providing a fourth. (at least, more chance than either Gamboa or Mijares losing... :!

Zappavigna, Browne, Diaz, Cuadras, Briedis, Pedraza, and Klitschko all won and won big, in dominant fashion. (shutouts, or close enough, and stoppages)

That's just the main list. Off the secondary: Vasquez obliterated Mosquera, Salka bloodied Clay in a boxing lesson, Oosthuizen stopped Grachev, Funeka popped Belaev's cherry, and Ouali vs. Figueroa never happened. So no upsets there.

Altogether, 2 of 15 (really 2/16, but one fight got canceled) that have so far been possible...but the pair that happened were only in the 'moderately likely' category and Mundine's at least came to many of us as quite a surprise.

...mainly because we overrated Rabchenko. (http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=521949)

 

Nietes stopped Velarde earlier, too.

 

Mundine, Heiland and Kalenga scored upsets.

Zappavigna, Browne, Diaz, Cuadras, Briedis, Pedraza, Klitschko, Vasquez, Salka, Oosthuizen, Funeka, Nietes, Ramírez Sánchez, Gamboa, and Mijares denied upsets in victory.

3/18. 16%.

 

You mean keep making similar threads, or just bump this one and edit the OP each week? :think