What really is the biggest upset in boxing?

[margaret thatcher]

there was just a 13 year old olympic gold medalist

[JamesPhilips]

What sport?

[margaret thatcher]

skateboarding

[JamesPhilips]

It will be Jake Paul - Canelo.

It would, but even that wouldn't rock the world like Douglas-Tyson! Boxing simply isn't big enough anymore. Honeyghan got bigger write ups than Jake Paul would.

If there was a bigger age difference it would be possible in a few years. I'm not sure how possible. Paul is a natural cruiser. But I can't obviously believe it's possible in this timeline.

Please don't accuse me of being high but after seeing his far inferior brother trouble Mayweatger Jake would beat him now.

[margaret thatcher]

the other medalists in the same competition were 13 and 16 , the uk has a 13 year old skateboarder there and there's a 12 year old japanese, and they'd all have been even younger had it happaned in 2020.

wtf iis up with skateboardng

[coghaugen11]

More of an advantage being that young in skateboarding surely - you’re much lighter. I was good at it at 12, much shitter at 18

[bennie]

WilFred Benitez is still alive at 62. I had thought he might have passed as I know he's had health issues and CTE. Money issues too.

Will we ever have another 17 Yr old champ? It's amazing really. Canelo would've been the only recent candidate as he turned pro at 15, but it seems unimaginable now.

Wilfredo Gomez was also just 17 when he won gold at the world amateur championships in Cuba in 1974, destroying all four of his opponents, including the Cuban.

[coghaugen11]

One of Chris Eubank’s boxing idols was Gomez, along with Tyson, Duran, LaPorte and Tommy Hearns and a local southpaw called Dennis Cruz.

[bennie]

Cruz went in with a few decent names but Rocky Lockridge wore him down for a seven-round knockout in 1987, a few months before Lockridge made his way to a Windsor nightclub and ended the career of Barry Michael for the IBF super-featherweight title. (A bomb scare delayed the main event that night and Lockridge joined the crowd in the cold night air, although Michael stayed put).
Bizarrely, boxrec appears to think that Cruz is actually Julio Cesar Chavez.

https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/3863

[coghaugen11]

Boxrec think a lot of things.

Eubank said drugs got Cruz around 84/85. Before that he was Pernell Whitaker-esque (according to Eubank) and the one he strived to box like when he was an amateur.

Eubank then met a martial artist by the name of Walter Johnson (former NYC GG semi-finalist) around 86/87 and developed that bizarre stop-start style.

[coghaugen11]

Chris also insists ancient Chinese herbs provided by this Walter caused his muscle growth in his back muscles. No weights.