Fights journeymen were not supposed to win.

[Ron C]

Drake Thadzi vs. James Toney
Darroll Wilson vs. Shannon Briggs
Sedreck Fields vs. Shannon Briggs
Zack Page vs. Sebastian Koeber
Zack Page vs. Eugene Hill
Lanardo Tyner vs. Antwone Smith
Demetrice King vs. Bermane Stiverne
Darnell Boone every recent win lol
Orlando Salido vs. Vasyl Lomachenko
Orlando Salido vs. Juan Manuel Lopez
Robinson Castellanos vs. Yuriorkis Gamboa
Kiryl Relikh vs. Rances Barthelemy
Ernie Marquez vs. Yan Barthelemy
Nobuhiro Ishida vs. James Kirkland

[littlepug]

Micheal Ayers was upset by a journeyman if I remember rightly

Do you mean against Roger Sampson ?. I don't think Sampson was a journeyman

Just had a look, it was Karl Taylor, it wasnt a win like i thought but a draw.

[Switch hitter]

Micheal Ayers was upset by a journeyman if I remember rightly

Do you mean against Roger Sampson ?. I don't think Sampson was a journeyman

Just had a look, it was Karl Taylor, it wasnt a win like i thought but a draw.

Speaking of Taylor didn't he beat Dingaan Thobola.....

[littlepug]

Do you mean against Roger Sampson ?. I don't think Sampson was a journeyman

Just had a look, it was Karl Taylor, it wasnt a win like i thought but a draw.

Speaking of Taylor didn't he beat Dingaan Thobola.....

Bloody hell, i had an inkling he upset a foreign fighter, well done

[jonp]

Look at Brett Fidoes recent form hes been upsetting a few

[littlepug]

Drake Thadzi vs. James Toney
Darroll Wilson vs. Shannon Briggs
Sedreck Fields vs. Shannon Briggs
Zack Page vs. Sebastian Koeber
Zack Page vs. Eugene Hill
Lanardo Tyner vs. Antwone Smith
Demetrice King vs. Bermane Stiverne
Darnell Boone every recent win lol
Orlando Salido vs. Vasyl Lomachenko
Orlando Salido vs. Juan Manuel Lopez
Robinson Castellanos vs. Yuriorkis Gamboa
Kiryl Relikh vs. Rances Barthelemy
Ernie Marquez vs. Yan Barthelemy
Nobuhiro Ishida vs. James Kirkland

Not sure i would put a lot of those guys in the journeyman bracket

[littlepug]

Look at Brett Fidoes recent form hes been upsetting a few

My kinda fighter

[Onetimeonly]

Cosme Rivera over Joel Julio. I picked that one. He beat a couple others in that time frame

[gilgamesh]

Hell Journeyman are never "Supposed to win" when matched against a big name. Sometimes they do, but I've never seen one booked intentionally where the Journeyman to win was the plan.

[Switch hitter]

Cosme Rivera over Joel Julio. I picked that one. He beat a couple others in that time frame

James Hare was one.....

[Autobarn]

Booth sheika

That’s the one that immediately sprang to my mind as well.

absolutely

[Autobarn]

An obvious one that no one has mentioned yet, Steve Robinson. He was 13-9-1 when he got a surprise shot at the WBO world title with two days notice after the original challenger failed an AIDS test. Robinson won the title, went on to make seven defences and beat some very good fighters. Remarkable story.

Agreed.

Robinson always came into fights in the absolutely best shape he could be in, and also learned how to pace himself. This helped him against Davison, in a gruelling fight that saw him go the extra mile.

[KiwiRider]

An obvious one that no one has mentioned yet, Steve Robinson. He was 13-9-1 when he got a surprise shot at the WBO world title with two days notice after the original challenger failed an AIDS test. Robinson won the title, went on to make seven defences and beat some very good fighters. Remarkable story.

Robinson has it all.
Not only the upset, but backing it up was amazing.

[bennie]

After winning the WBC bantamweight title in 1979, Lupe Pintor took a routine non-title fight against fellow Mexican Manuel Vazquez - a man he had previously sparked in two rounds. Vazquez was 20-10-1 going in but had Pintor on the deck and badly cut before Pintor retired on his stool at the end of round five. Pintor went on to make eight defences of his WBC title, including the tragic Johnny Owen defence.

[orbtastic]

Clearly better than given credit for at the time but Baldomir had 9 losses and 6 draws going into the Judah fight.

[Manchester Massive]

Jose Seyes v Errol Christie
Buster Drayton v Mark Kaylor

[Ricky]

I think it was around this time last year i backed Ronnie the Shark Clarke to beat Zelfa Barrett at 9/1

[Old bones Ian]

Carlo Colarusso Vs Glenn Catley , although Colarusso wouldn’t of called himself a journeyman, he was 10-8 at the time and Catley was 7-0.
The win earned Colarusso a British title shot, he was stopped by Neville Brown after giving the champion a tough night.

Also Sugar Gibiliru was 12-27-7 when he got a shot at the British Superfeather title against class boxer Robert Dickie, but Gibiliru upset the odds to win in a big upset.

[Deserter]

Howard Clarke earned a shot at Fernando Vargas by upsetting Jason Papillion

Great call.
Another one I've just remembered in Najib Daho beating Pat Cowdell. Daho was a b it more than a journeyman at that point, but nonetheless he was 29-18 at the time.

[funso banjo baby]

Mark Lee twice against Noel Quarless

the dude who first flattened James Oyebola

also del bryan wasn't expected to beat Darren Dyer

[Coco]

Carlo Colarusso Vs Glenn Catley , although Colarusso wouldn’t of called himself a journeyman, he was 10-8 at the time and Catley was 7-0.
The win earned Colarusso a British title shot, he was stopped by Neville Brown after giving the champion a tough night.

Also Sugar Gibiliru was 12-27-7 when he got a shot at the British Superfeather title against class boxer Robert Dickie, but Gibiliru upset the odds to win in a big upset.

I was there that night, Carlo is a pal of mine too, great win for him, proper hard case but proper nice guy too.

[Coco]

Miguel Matthews v Scott Harrison

[stujones]

John Buster Keaton picked up some upset wins on the way to winning the British title, probably his biggest upset win was vs Gary Delaney.

[Controversial]

Tom Bethea (9-5-1) stopping the then reigning middleweight world champion Nino Benvenuti (80-3-1) in a non-title fight.



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[Tuan_Jim]

Mark Wills against Greg Page--twice!

Bigfoot over Tim Witherspoon.

Jesse Ferguson over Obed Sullivan.

Remember when Alex Garcia turned down million dollar paydays vs Foreman and Bowe, feeling he wasn't 'ready', then got whacked for a grand versus Mike Dixon?

Garing Lane then did it again to Garcia!