When Underestimating "Eurobums" Goes Wrong

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Canelo vs GGG 1

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What sticks out in my head is when Antoine Douglas first fought Michel Soro and escaped with a draw and then later took on Khurtsidze and nearly got his head taken off. Heck, might as well throw in his fight against Spike O'Sullivan.

There have been a few instances when UK fighters brought in continental European opponents who they were expected to beat and ended up losing (Ritson and Hyland Jr at the hands of Patera).

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Rid**** Bowe vs Andrew Golota
Lamon Brewster vs Sergey Liakhovich
Hasim Rahman vs Oleg Maskaev

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Looking for occasions where taking a supposedly soft Euro lightly ended up backfiring.

Oscar de la Hoya vs Felix Sturm
Mikey Garcia vs Sandor Martin

Who else you got?

Duran losing to Kirkland Laing is the biggest upset I can think of involving a European fighter beating a US based fighter.

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From what I've heard, SRR underestimated Turpin before their first fight. Duran vs Laing and Honeyghan beating Curry are 2 other big upsets involving UK guys.

I've never read that Jacobs underestimated Pirog but fans did and especially HBO, they didn't even have a translator there because they assumed he was a scrub.

Yeah SRR was “on tour” if you know what I mean. Turpin was a very good fighter in his own right though. Ray was just that good, that he could usually live it up in between fights and still come out victorious.

Turpin actually gave a motivated Ray big problems in the rematch, Ray was cut bad prior to forcing the stoppage.

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Tyson vs Williams maybe as well. I know Mike was shot but I think almost everybody expected him to have enough left to take care of Williams.

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From what I've heard, SRR underestimated Turpin before their first fight. Duran vs Laing and Honeyghan beating Curry are 2 other big upsets involving UK guys.

I've never read that Jacobs underestimated Pirog but fans did and especially HBO, they didn't even have a translator there because they assumed he was a scrub.

Nice one! Great catch

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Andrade vs Culcay.

Derevychenko GGG

Anyone vs Derevychenko really

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John H Stracey retiring Jose Napoles in his adopted Mexico City

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