What is the biggest upset of all time?

[katsidis]

What is the biggest upset of all time?

I would probably go with Tyson-Douglas, I think Douglas was a 42-1 dog in that fight or something.

[NChristo]

Joe Louis - Max Schmeling
Randy Turpin - Ray Robinson
Frankie Randalls - JCC
Sonny Liston - Muhammad Ali
Jim Jeffries - Jack Johnson
Joe Frazier - George Foreman
Donald Curry - Lloyd Honeyghan
Michael Moorer - George Foreman

All major upsets, couldn't say for definite which is number one but I'll go with Louis - Schmeling.

[Barn]

Joe Louis - Max Schmeling
Randy Turpin - Ray Robinson
Frankie Randalls - JCC
Sonny Liston - Muhammad Ali
Joe Frazier - George Foreman
Donald Curry - Lloyd Honeyghan
Michael Moorer - George Foreman

All major upsets, couldn't say for definite which is number one but I'll go with Louis - Schmeling.

Leonard - Hagler
Roy Jones - Antonio Tarver
Muhammad Ali - George Foreman
James J Braddock - Max Baer

[Joey Giardello]

Douglas/tyson or Braddock/Bear

[BigStereotype]

There's four that spring to mind - Duran over Leonard, Douglas over Tyson, Ali over Foreman and Braddock over Baer.

[Joey Giardello]

There's four that spring to mind - Duran over Leonard, Douglas over Tyson, Ali over Foreman and Braddock over Baer.

duran's wins over leonard was not that big of a upset

[Tiozzo]

Joe Louis - Max Schmeling
Randy Turpin - Ray Robinson
Frankie Randalls - JCC
Sonny Liston - Muhammad Ali
Jim Jeffries - Jack JohnsonJoe Frazier - George Foreman
Donald Curry - Lloyd Honeyghan
Michael Moorer - George Foreman

All major upsets, couldn't say for definite which is number one but I'll go with Louis - Schmeling.

but Jeffries was hyped up as the white hope who would get rid of the black champion

he was coming off a long retirement
I don't really consider it an upset

aside from the racist white people of the time who maybe acted as if it was an upset, do you know reputated writers or historians who feel it was an upset ?

[Heavy Bag]

Here's a few that havent been mentioned or underrated one's.

Kirkland Laing vs Roberto Duran
Rubin Carter vs Emille Griffith
Nino Benvenuti vs Jose Roberto Chirino
Ricardo Mayorga vs Vernon Forrest
Kostya Tszyu vs Vince Phillips
Alexis Arguello vs Vilomar Fernandez
Iran Barkley vs Thomas Hearns

[JAB5239]

Billy Backus stoppage on cuts over Jose Napoles is surely up there.

[NChristo]

but Jeffries was hyped up as the white hope who would get rid of the black champion

he was coming off a long retirement
I don't really consider it an upset

aside from the racist white people of the time who maybe acted as if it was an upset, do you know reputated writers or historians who feel it was an upset ?

Was hesitant on putting it up, but yes "racist" white people meaning 90% of white people from that era thought that Jeffries was the man to bring down Johnson more so then any of the other Great White Hopes.

That was the fight when people would be made to recognize Johnson as the real champ where they wouldn't previously. I'd say it was an upset but not in the general sense of the underdog coming out on top.