Is Truax beating Degale the biggest upset on British Soil?

[samwbr]

Cleverly getting walloped by Kovalev was a shock to a lot of people for some reason.

Not to anyone who knew anything about Kovalev

Thats what i mean.

[thepocketrocket]

Degale was 1/200 on b365 before the fight.

It has to go down as the biggest upset in british boxing history.

I wonder what the odds were for Gomez vs Arthur? I know that practically everyone expected Arthur to win that and that was a pretty big upset.

Good thread.

Though AAA v Gomez was an upset, there were some of us (like me) who had seen that AAA was susceptible to eating the left hook which was Gomez's best shot...in fact I picked Gomez to do him IF he came in fit.

It was certainly not as big an upset as Degale getting done by the lowest ranking fighter they could find and get away with,

[Manchester Massive]

Jose Seyes v Errol Christie

[littlepug]

not quite on this level but anyone remember Eamon Loughran getting banged out in under a minute and losing his world title in the process ?

[tobyh5]

Ton of fights which were bigger upsets.

A couple random ones pop straight into my head
Lewis being KTFO by McCall
Hatton beating Tszyu
Robinson losing to Turpin
Haye v Thompson
Price V Thompson (subsequent knowledge of Price does not change how it was seen and felt on the day)

[mickey1975]

Some of the examples here are literally nowhere near the level of upset DeGale suffered on Saturday. Some were actually strongly favoured by anyone with half a brain.

[thepocketrocket]

not quite on this level but anyone remember Eamon Loughran getting banged out in under a minute and losing his world title in the process ?

I remember being devastated at that....still, JLL was a very good fighter so I was probably guilty of being young and ignorant when shocked!

[Datsue]

not quite on this level but anyone remember Eamon Loughran getting banged out in under a minute and losing his world title in the process ?

Loughran was about to "move on to bigger things" than defending a plastic belt on ITV & some bright spark brought over an unknown Mexican named Jose Luis Lopez. 90 seconds & three knockdowns later...

As to the topic: I think McCall doing Lewis (though I remember Boxing Monthly going "This could all go wrong..." beforehand) & Stevie Little beating Michael Nunn—although Nunn was on the slide (& obviously not at his pre-Tony world-straddling peak)—were both more surprising to me.

As Boxerbeetle says above, Chunky's looked like an accident waiting to happen for too long.

[lillywhite14]

DeGale used to phone a few performances in during his am days so it’s not a massive shock that he had an off night as a pro.

Like many have said though, it did look like more than just an off night. He could well be finished unfortunately.

[bennie]

Lloyd Marshall beating Freddie Mills, Jimmy Slade beating Don Cockell, Harry Scott beating Rubin Carter, Jack Bodell beating Joe Bugner, Freddie Bright beating Billy Knight, Mickey Flynn beating Maurice Hope, Gilbert Cohen beating Jimmy Batten, Karl Taylor beating Dingaan Thobela...
There are hundreds of upsets on UK soil but the biggest is Randy Turpin's world middleweight title win over Sugar Ray Robinson, the greatest pound for pound fighter of them all.

[Gnome]

Price v Thompson #1 a big surprise for me.

[Controversial]

Lloyd Marshall beating Freddie Mills,

Marshall was a quality fighter who beat better fighters than Mills

[Greg Houston]

not quite on this level but anyone remember Eamon Loughran getting banged out in under a minute and losing his world title in the process ?

I remember it well, especially Rosenthal repeatedly saying that it was, " a terrible setback for Loughran."
Setback? The guy just lost his world title in under two minutes, it's a bit more than that.

[littlepug]

not quite on this level but anyone remember Eamon Loughran getting banged out in under a minute and losing his world title in the process ?

I remember it well, especially Rosenthal repeatedly saying that it was, " a terrible setback for Loughran."
Setback? The guy just lost his world title in under two minutes, it's a bit more than that.

I'm assuming he retired after that defeat as I cant recall hearing of him again ?, saying that, I cant actually remember hardly anything about his career apart from that defeat and the Manning Galloway win

[bigjack]

not quite on this level but anyone remember Eamon Loughran getting banged out in under a minute and losing his world title in the process ?

Loughran was about to "move on to bigger things" than defending a plastic belt on ITV & some bright spark brought over an unknown Mexican named Jose Luis Lopez. 90 seconds & three knockdowns later...

As to the topic: I think McCall doing Lewis (though I remember Boxing Monthly going "This could all go wrong..." beforehand) & Stevie Little beating Michael Nunn—although Nunn was on the slide (& obviously not at his pre-Tony world-straddling peak)—were both more surprising to me.

As Boxerbeetle says above, Chunky's looked like an accident waiting to happen for too long.

Yes,that's why i can't believe this is being talked about as a massive upset,Degale's poor form,injuries and inactivity were evident,on top of that he may have thought Truax would be a walkover.

[pablothunder]

I remember winning on stupidly wide odds when Medina beat Scott Harrison.
He looked like a plodder to me,, but the hype at the time was sprinting in the opposite direction. I think the fight poster featured Harrison, Barrera, Marquez and Morales as if that picture was inevitable.
Not the greatest upset in UK history, but it was a lot bigger than its remembered now.

[gilgamesh]

I remember winning on stupidly wide odds when Medina beat Scott Harrison.
He looked like a plodder to me,, but the hype at the time was sprinting in the opposite direction. I think the fight poster featured Harrison, Barrera, Marquez and Morales as if that picture was inevitable.
Not the greatest upset in UK history, but it was a lot bigger than its remembered now.

I remember the Fight poster. Saw it in a magazine I think. Yeah that was a pretty big upset at the time. Scott Harrison due to his legal troubles just kinda faded away, and has been forgotten for the most part, but he was solid.

[littlepug]

Jake Matlala scored a couple of upsets over here if I remember rightly

[BrumBlue]

Cunningham v Ogogo was quite a big one from this year. Think he was about 10/1

[thepocketrocket]

I remember winning on stupidly wide odds when Medina beat Scott Harrison.
He looked like a plodder to me,, but the hype at the time was sprinting in the opposite direction. I think the fight poster featured Harrison, Barrera, Marquez and Morales as if that picture was inevitable.
Not the greatest upset in UK history, but it was a lot bigger than its remembered now.

Harrison was incredibly strong and beat fighters who were more skilfull...was a total freak of nature.

Shame about the booze as we never saw how good he could be.

[pablothunder]

I remember winning on stupidly wide odds when Medina beat Scott Harrison.
He looked like a plodder to me,, but the hype at the time was sprinting in the opposite direction. I think the fight poster featured Harrison, Barrera, Marquez and Morales as if that picture was inevitable.
Not the greatest upset in UK history, but it was a lot bigger than its remembered now.

Harrison was incredibly strong and beat fighters who were more skilfull...was a total freak of nature.

Shame about the booze as we never saw how good he could be.

Yeah he really blew it. Had it all at his feet from the start.

[tony1234]

Noel Quarless beating Anders Eklund and then John L Gardner before losing to Conroy Nelson and Mark Lee , Gardner getting KO'd by Ibar Arrington in the 1st had Harry Carpenter spluttering on Sportsnight

[thepocketrocket]

I remember winning on stupidly wide odds when Medina beat Scott Harrison.
He looked like a plodder to me,, but the hype at the time was sprinting in the opposite direction. I think the fight poster featured Harrison, Barrera, Marquez and Morales as if that picture was inevitable.
Not the greatest upset in UK history, but it was a lot bigger than its remembered now.

Harrison was incredibly strong and beat fighters who were more skilfull...was a total freak of nature.

Shame about the booze as we never saw how good he could be.

Yeah he really blew it. Had it all at his feet from the start.

I remember him banging out his Mrs' ex in a pub loo and everyone getting round to get him off with false statements. Yes that is understandable, but seemed no-one there to say 'woah Scott, this is a bad route'.

I went to the Harrison v McCullough weigh in...one of the Jocks threatened to glass the barman in a very nice hotel. He didn't surround himself with good sorts, though the proof of that became more obvious than i would have guessed.

[bennie]

Lloyd Marshall beating Freddie Mills,

Marshall was a quality fighter who beat better fighters than Mills

Marshall was indeed a quality fighter and a man to be avoided but he looked over the hill at 33, while Mills, who promoter Jack Solomons was building to a shot at the world light-heavyweight title, was very much on the climb. "Fearless" Freddie took a pounding but did make it to that world title. Marshall, ironically, never won another big fight.