Rematch upsets?

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  1. PaddyGarcia

    PaddyGarcia Trivial Annoyance Gold Medalist Full Member

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    One of the greatest things about boxing is the occasional upset. Relatively rare but always an exciting and interesting spectacle to behold. Often following this is a rematch where the expected winner usually triumphs. Was drinking with a friend over the weekend and we were trying to think of examples were the upsetter wins the rematch too - in effect creating an even bigger upset

    So I thought I would utter the question to you ramblers. Which great double-upsets can you recall?
     
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  2. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    Thompson vs Price was the easiest money ever made on a boxing fight.
     
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  3. Robney

    Robney ᴻᴼ ᴸᴼᴻᴳᴲᴿ ᴲ۷ᴵᴸ Full Member

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    Greg Page vs journeyman Mark Wills is one that always intrigued me, because I saw that rematch a couple of months after the legendary Tyson vs Douglas fight, and at that point it was clear to me that upsets aren't that strange in the HW division.
     
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  4. Pugilist_Spec

    Pugilist_Spec Hands Of Stone Full Member

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    Ali-Liston is probably the biggest one in history.

    Liston was the favourite even though he lost the first fight convincingly.
     
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  5. KO KIDD

    KO KIDD Loyal Member Full Member

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    Does Forrest Mosley, Forrest Mayorga and Mosley Wright fit the bill
     
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  6. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Barkley-Hearns 2
     
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  7. andrewa1

    andrewa1 Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    How about flipping that premise, ie. rematches where the initial favorite won in the first bout, then lost in the second? Can't think of any off hand.

    Also, more often than not, if the favorite loses initially, he becomes the underdog in the second match. Arreolla Stiverne comes to mind for that.
     
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  8. DirtyDan

    DirtyDan Worst Poster of 2015 Full Member

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    Silva Weidman
     
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  9. Pugilist_Spec

    Pugilist_Spec Hands Of Stone Full Member

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    Jones-Tarver
     
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  10. DirtyDan

    DirtyDan Worst Poster of 2015 Full Member

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    Eubank-collins

    Foreman-Frazier

    Salido-Lopez

    Toney-Griffin

    Tarver-Jones 2 and 3

    Pavlik-Taylor

    Hopkins-Taylor
     
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  11. Ilesey

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    Toney - Peter 2, maybe...
     
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    itsa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Price vs Thompson
     
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    itsa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Foreman vs Frazier 2?
     
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  14. Doc Everlast

    Doc Everlast Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Castillo vs Coralles 2?
     
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  15. Doc Everlast

    Doc Everlast Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Gatti vs Ward II. Nobody thought Arturo would come back and put a boxing clinic on Ward after the first slugfest.
     
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