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While 2014 didn’t boast excessive shakeup at the sport’s top level, the year was hardly without its share of shocking results. From young prospects getting exposed to ex-champions being humbled by career journeymen, the odds were literally defied on a number of occasions.
Most years boast a notable upset so stunning that it truly grabs the sport by storm. Because so few of the sport’s leading fighters suffered defeats on that level, this was yet another category in this lackluster year to produce a true frontrunner.
Sometimes, betting odds tell the true story in the wake of hyperbole trying to toy with the facts. Just because media members whose tendency is to go chalk on its predictions believed “a healthy” Sergio Martinez would toy with Miguel Cotto, doesn’t mean the rest of the boxing world believed it to be the case.
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Most years boast a notable upset so stunning that it truly grabs the sport by storm. Because so few of the sport’s leading fighters suffered defeats on that level, this was yet another category in this lackluster year to produce a true frontrunner.
Sometimes, betting odds tell the true story in the wake of hyperbole trying to toy with the facts. Just because media members whose tendency is to go chalk on its predictions believed “a healthy” Sergio Martinez would toy with Miguel Cotto, doesn’t mean the rest of the boxing world believed it to be the case.
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