What outcome in 2008 shocked you the most?

100% DLH losing to Pac-man

 

Hopkins/Pavlik. Although when Hopkins won the first two rounds the way he did, I could tell it might go that way the whole fight. In retrospect everything makes sense.

 

Roman Karmazin vs Alex Bunema

 

Abraham knocking out Miranda in only a couple of rounds.

 

Oscar getting not just whipped, but havin' his ass handed to 'eem @ 147 buy a guy that fought @135 for the first time back in June.

 

Not shocking at all.

A motivated Abraham brutally stops ANYONE at 160 or below inside a few rounds.

 

Wlad-Ibragimov.
I was expecting a KO victory for Wlad but it went full distance and no knock downs ( no scored KD's anyway, there was one that should have been scored as one imho)

 

I gotta say, I predicted the correct winners of the ones I was shocked most by!

I thought Hopkins would beat Pavlik by CLOSE, competitive decision that could be scored either way. I was stunned to silence by the decisive, shutout ass whupping B-hop put on. He took that fight and did with it things I thought a 43 year old fighter would be incapable of doing.

Paul Williams vs. Quintana II was shocking as well. Thought Paul would win by SD to set up a cool little trilogy, maybe even shaft Quintana by doing so. But no, Carlos gets sparked and easily dealt with in one round. Damn.

Mora-Forrest 1 was a great upset, but not all that shocking. I predicted Forrest by close UD, because everytime he shows up flabby and overconfident, he has trouble(see Mayorga fights and Quartey), but it there was something in the air that night. I really wasnt stunned to see Mora score a clear win.

 

Genuinely, it was Darchinyan/Mijares. That fight brought a huge smile to my face - and literally, a verbal pronouncement that "it's ****ing great to be a boxing fan" said to myself on the couch. No other sport can do that. I laugh when I see hype about the Giants/Patriots upset. That was a joke by our standards.

 

I have to admit that Margo stopping Cotto at the time left me shell shocked. :yikes

 

margo cotto
darch mijares
oscar pac

 

I didn't give this fight a ton of attention, or it would probably rank right up there. That was a killer moment, totally out of nowhere.

 

71 posts in this thread until someone said it. ^ WOW.

 

Indeed

 

the Annihilation of Amir Khan, lol.