Great non heavyweight upset

[burt bienstock]

I'll start with two shockers at the time
Ray Robinson loses to Randy Turpin,London,1951
Ray Robinson whipped by Ralph Tiger Jones,1955
Robinson was then considered unbeatable.....And yours...

[ripcity]

James Toney over Michael Nunn ([Only registered and activated users can see links]). Nunn was undefeted and a top 10 pound for pound boxer. With talk of him being an all time great. Te fight was in his hometown as well. Toney was a reltive unknown at the time.

[Longhhorn71]

Texan Stevie Cruz over Barry McGuigan in 1986.

(By trade Cruz was a plumber's helper in Fort Worth, with no money in his savings account and a floating address. He was just Nobody from nowhere, and he would be going home soon.)

[red cobra]

Lloyd Honeyghan-Donald Curry
Emile Griffith-Dick Tiger I
Fighting Harada-Eder Jofre
Billy Backus-Jose Napoles (a fluke upset)
Wilfred Bemitez-Antonio Cervantes

[Boilermaker]

It probably wasnt that big an upset elsewhere, but in Australia at least, Fenech v Nelson II almost defied belief.

[bodhi]

Kirklang Laing - Roberto Duran
Carlos Monzon - Nino Benvenuti

[Mr Butt]

jorge vaca vs lloyd honeyghan

[young griffo]

Boxing's next superstar Danny Romero being stopped by journeyman trial-horse Willy Salazar.

Zahir Raheem whipping Erik Morales was a fair upset as well.

[zadfrak]

Willy Wise over Chavez
Pink Cat Walker over Arguello
Eric Winbush ko'ing Saad Muhammad was big & blew out the candles
Navarette over Boza Edwards
Stafford over Cuevas blew out the candles as well
Jacquot over Curry was another loss not many saw coming
Fenech ko'd badly by both Holiday and Grove
Verderosa over O'Grady
Hiranaka over Rosario was a big upset at the time
Word over Hembrick was big at the time.

[klompton]

Stole mine. Robinson-Turpin is in my opinion the greatest non hw upset of all time. not so much tiger jones because jones was a real good fighter and robinson was coming off a long layoff. no one really knew what he had.

[Unforgiven]

Zivic beating Armstrong.

[Drew101]

Carlos Baldomir- Zab Judah

Al McCoy-George Chip (How big an upset was this? McCoy's own father, who was in attendance, wouldn't bet on him.)

Young Corbett-Terry McGovern (Terrible Terry was thought to be unbeatable at the time.)

Marco Antonio Rubio-Franciso Bojado

[Son of Gaul]

It probably wasnt that big an upset elsewhere, but in Australia at least, Fenech v Nelson II almost defied belief.

Yeah that was a pretty big deal.

[turpinr]

Stole mine. Robinson-Turpin is in my opinion the greatest non hw upset of all time. not so much tiger jones because jones was a real good fighter and robinson was coming off a long layoff. no one really knew what he had.
turpin wasn't surprised:good

[Russell]

Texan Stevie Cruz over Barry McGuigan in 1986.

(By trade Cruz was a plumber's helper in Fort Worth, with no money in his savings account and a floating address. He was just Nobody from nowhere, and he would be going home soon.)

Great post. :good:good

[kidargentine]

Carlos Monzon over Nino Benvenuti
Ruben Carter over Emile Griffith
Bernard Hopkins over Felix Trinidad
Pone Kingpetch over Pascual Perez

[johnmaff36]

stracey beating napoles?
leonard beating hagler just HAS to be up there

[techks]

Montell Griffin over Jones(yeah it's bs but still a win)
Brown over Norris
Pacquiao over Barrera
Barkley over Hearns
Raheem over Morales
JJ over Barrera

[Bioyhh]

stracey beating napoles?
leonard beating hagler just HAS to be up there

Sports Illustrated actually backed Leonard in the Hagler fight. I don't think the way Ray won the fight was that surprising. Had he mauled Hagler, or did the unthinkable and stopped him, then that would have been a huge upset. Ray's defeat of Hearns in their first fight was a bigger upset in the way that he won, stalking Tommy and looking for the KO, while Tommy got on his bycycle and tried box his way to a decision. Going in, most thought that the roles would have been reversed.

Duran over Barkley sure surprised me.

[The Funny Man 7]

Duane Thomas beating Mugabi
Haugen W12 Camacho

[Rock0052]

Willy Wise over Chavez
Pink Cat Walker over Arguello
Eric Winbush ko'ing Saad Muhammad was big & blew out the candles
Navarette over Boza Edwards
Stafford over Cuevas blew out the candles as well
Jacquot over Curry was another loss not many saw coming
Fenech ko'd badly by both Holiday and Grove
Verderosa over O'Grady
Hiranaka over Rosario was a big upset at the time
Word over Hembrick was big at the time.

Good list. I haven't seen it, but the bolded one especially jumps out to me. The guy only had 3 stoppage wins going into the fight with Muhammad.

I'll throw Tszyu-Phillips into the mix, too.

[Rock0052]

Other recent examples:

Jones-Tarver II
Judah-Baldomir
Marquez-John (officially)

[johnmaff36]

Sports Illustrated actually backed Leonard in the Hagler fight. I don't think the way Ray won the fight was that surprising. Had he mauled Hagler, or did the unthinkable and stopped him, then that would have been a huge upset. Ray's defeat of Hearns in their first fight was a bigger upset in the way that he won, stalking Tommy and looking for the KO, while Tommy got on his bycycle and tried box his way to a decision. Going in, most thought that the roles would have been reversed.

Duran over Barkley sure surprised me.
I know where your coming from and there was a few picked leonard but the majority fancied hagler strongly. The bookies in the UK and Ireland had Leonard at 8-1 and its not often these guys are wrong