2008 Year of the upsets?

[-Hyperion-]

dlh over floyd!!!!

[niceguy45]

emmanuel is gonna be involved in two, last year with JT and now with wlad,
and again with JT and with cintron in april

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Forbes over DLH


Gavin rees over Khan

[niceguy45]

pacquaio could lose

that wouldn't be a surprise to me

[-Hyperion-]

One that would have everyone pissed:

Mora over Forrest id love to see the reaction of the boxing world if that were to happen...

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Holyfield, defying the odds


5th time world champion

[ElGranLuchador]

mora could pull off the upset hes undefeated after all

[thiefery]

Holyfield, defying the odds


5th time world champion

...then loses belt to John Ruiz

[niceguy45]

mora could pull off the upset hes undefeated after all

against who, forrest ? jajajajaja

[Thread Stealer]

Explain...

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Barrera vs. Hamed.

I'm sure there are a lot more...

Well in March, there was a minor upset in Ruiz-Holyfield 2. I don't remember the odds but I'm guessing it was around 2-1 in favor of Evander.

Then in April you had two big upsets. Rahman was what, a 14-1 underdog to Lewis? Huge, huge upset. Then Barrera was probably around a 3-1 underdog when he beat Hamed. Hopkins was around a 3-1 underdog as well against Tito, and Judah was the betting favorite over Tszyu.

Huge upsets in big fights, 3 of them involving either the HW linear title or unification matches, and most observers had Hamed at #1 at 126 since he'd beaten all 4 titleholders there and beat Tom Johnson when Johnson was regarded as the top dog at feather.