Greatest British Upset?

**The Wire** · 03-14-2007, 04:21 AM

Originally posted by Moschino045

Randy Turpin-Ray Robinson?

Jim Watt-Howard Davis?

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2099255&postcount=82

Barry McGuigan-Eusebio Pedroza?

Lloyd Honeyghan-Don Curry?

Nigel Benn-Gerald McClellan?

Ricky Hatton-Kostya Tszyu?

Joe Calzaghe-Jeff Lacy?

Other? (Please state)

Robinson is consensus best fighter ever, Pedroza was on record defenses and modern great, Curry was the p4p king, McClellan was a p4p star and next big thing, Tszyu was consensus best 140-pounder ever and modern great, Lacy supposed to be next big thing.. ofcourse, Robinson, Pedroza and Tszyu were past their best, but then so were Benn and Calzaghe supposed to be. What do you think?

I think it's a toss up between Hatton/Tszyu, Benn/Mclellan and Turpin/Robinson. None of these fighters were given a chance - for example, I was at the Hatton fight and as I was milling around chatting to people even the Hatton fans were pretty sure that Ricky was gonna get stopped. Benn knew that Mclellan was supposed to win, he said they'd bought Mclellan over to knock him out (and he almost did, on a number of occasions throughout the fight) and Robinson was a living legend and the greatest of all time. I would find it tough to pick a winner out of those three to be honest.

**squealpiggy** · 03-14-2007, 05:58 AM

Henry Cooper - Muhammed Ali. Or it would have been if Ali's corner hadn't deliberately cut Ali's glove before the round in which 'Enery was stopped.

**The Raging Bull** · 03-14-2007, 09:06 AM

Definitely Turpin/Robinson.

But against our fighters, it's probably Hamed/MAB. Everyone over here expected Naseem to win.

**Emon723** · 03-14-2007, 09:08 AM

steve collins-chris eubank.

**Nacho_Analstain** · 03-14-2007, 09:25 AM

for us - cooper/ali (dont care what the records say)

against us - rahman - lewis 1

**Jazzy Paul** · 03-14-2007, 09:38 AM

Honeyghan beating Curry was the biggest upset win by a British fighter. Nobody gave him a chance. Nobody.

**-----------** · 03-14-2007, 09:52 AM

Joe Calzaghe - Jeff Lacy, everyone thought Calzaghe was passed it, but he managed to pull it off in style.

**CletusVanDamme** · 03-14-2007, 09:54 AM

Originally posted by Jazzy Paul

Honeyghan beating Curry was the biggest upset win by a British fighter. Nobody gave him a chance. Nobody.

Yes I agree it is by far the biggest. Curry was thought to be invincible at the time. Ragamuffin put it on that ass.

**King Koyle** · 03-14-2007, 09:55 AM

I'd say Turpin/Robinson...

Greatest British Upset?