Upsets - Most Medicore Fighters That've...

Buster Drayton against Mark Kaylor comes to mind ...and ofcourse James Smith against Bruno...on the same card ...

 

Leonard Morrow KO1 Archie Moore.

It was not easy for me to remind you all of that.

 

He was just the better man on the night, if a bit lucky that Moore made a mistake.

 

Ross Purrity v Wlad Klitschko.

Barkley v Hearns. I know Barkley was decent and Hearn's wasn;t at his best, but it was still a big upset.

 

Considering Corrie Sanders was nothing more than a journeyman trial horse for 3/4 of his career, i wouldnt call this a major upset.


Corrie Sanders beating Wladimir Klitschko, NOW THATS An Example of a mediocre fighter majorly upsetting an undefeated prime very good fighter

 

Tiger Jones beat Sugar Ray Robinson.

 

Sanders was a very good trialhorse, thats why. He certainly was not a rated contender. He was a B level journeyman fighting 3rd rate competition most of his career. When he stepped up to fight his first ranked contender, hasim rahman, he got knocked out. Going into the wlad fight, no experts gave him a chance, he only got a title shot cause wlad wanted an easy tuneup fight to prepare him for a megafight.

 

Two Fights spring to mind, both going back a little way,
1/ Big Punching Earl the Pearl Hargrove finished with a Won/lost Log of F38 w32 - L6
( w28 by KO !)
he fought Gary Thomas who finished with a log of f55 w4 - L51 !!
at the time of their match Hargrove was 27 - 2 ( 26 ko's )
Gary Thomas was w2 L23 D1 (1 ko)
> Gary Thomas Stopped Earl Hargrove in the 2nd Round !!!

2/ Ocsar Shotgun Alborado (then 46-5-1) was Ko'ed in the first by Dino Del Cid (then 3-8-2)
(Oscar went on to Ko Dino in a rematch, then Went to Japan and won the Lt Middle title with a last round ko of Local Hero Koichi Wajima and had a successful first defence in Japan before losing the title back to Wajima in Japan )

These two stick in my mind bouts where Extreme underdogs got lucky

 

Honeygan verus Curry.

Im not saying Lloyd wasn't a very good fighter, because he was. But to beat Curry was a terrific achievement.

 

Yustine Ueharra Coming out of nowhere to knockout Jr. lightweight kingpin Samuel Serrano.
Unknown Rolando Navarette Knocking out Cornelius Boza-Edwards, Shocking!
John H. Stracey stopping the legendary Jose Napoles!

 

Navarette was not really mediocre.

Damn good fighter.

 

No he wasn't, but it was a huge upset. Edwards was hot, coming off two wars with Bobby Chacon & Rafael Limon. Then Navarette quickly lost the crown to Limon in a spectacular fight.