Your wrong predictions ?

[adislav123]

Lately & painfully of course i was convinced fury would absolutely make wilder look foolishly bad, win practically every round, pound him from post to pillar while wilder would idioticly swing for the fences landing absolutely nothing but air & gloves getting knocked out in the process.

Of course fury won the fight but boxed quite to hesitantly despite wilder begging for being overpowered & put away.

I hope for the rematch to make my prediction come true as i can see only one guy improving & following through what he showed in glimpses in the first fight.

But again, maybe i'm wrong and wilder isn't that bad, a sure knockout waiting to happen & ... no, i'm joking.

[adislav123]

Lately & painfully of course i was convinced fury would absolutely make wilder look foolishly bad, win practically every round, pound him from post to pillar while wilder would idioticly swing for the fences landing absolutely nothing but air & gloves getting knocked out in the process.

Of course fury won the fight but boxed quite to hesitantly despite wilder begging for being overpowered & put away.

I hope for the rematch to make my prediction come true as i can see only one guy improving & following through what he showed in glimpses in the first fight.

But again, maybe i'm wrong and wilder isn't that bad, a sure knockout waiting to happen & ... no, i'm joking.

[Lackeos]

De La Hoya vs Pacman:

Back then, people used to post a gif similar to this one to illustrate how much of a mismatch they perceived it to be (in De La Hoya's favor)

[SenorPipino]

De La Hoya vs Pacman:

Back then, people used to post a gif similar to this one to illustrate how much of a mismatch they perceived it to be (in De La Hoya's favor)

I got that one wrong too.

Hell, just 8 months earlier, Pac barely edged junior lightweight Marquez in their second matchup.

What chance did he have against a future HOF boxer who had been fighting at 154?

On fight night I realized that it's a bad bad thing for an older fighter to cut weight.

[The Asleep Lamps]

Sometimes a guy moving up in weight does better than expected such as Manny vs De la Hoya. Manny vs Hatton, Clottey or Cotto also I expected to be more competitive than they were because I thought Manny was small (by the time he fought Margarito you were used to him beating bigger men). I didn't expect Hopkins to steal Tarver's soul like he seemed to. I am old enough to remember when Holyfield was coming up to challenge Tyson. I wanted to see it but I didn't think that Tyson could lose to someone coming up in weight.

[Lackeos]

Sometimes a guy moving up in weight does better than expected such as Manny vs De la Hoya. Manny vs Hatton, Clottey or Cotto also I expected to be more competitive than they were because I thought Manny was small (by the time he fought Margarito you were used to him beating bigger men). I didn't expect Hopkins to steal Tarver's soul like he seemed to. I am old enough to remember when Holyfield was coming up to challenge Tyson. I wanted to see it but I didn't think that Tyson could lose to someone coming up in weight.

You might have gotten the details a little fuzzy, because Tyson was Evander's 18th opponent at heavyweight.

[tiny_acres]

I’d break this website if I had to list them all out.

I think most of us are in the same boat.
But all of those predictions made sense at the time

[Cent0089]

I was expecting Mosley to beat Mayweather ...and many others , speaking of Mayweather, i was expecting Maidana dont even touch him

[The Asleep Lamps]

Sometimes a guy moving up in weight does better than expected such as Manny vs De la Hoya. Manny vs Hatton, Clottey or Cotto also I expected to be more competitive than they were because I thought Manny was small (by the time he fought Margarito you were used to him beating bigger men). I didn't expect Hopkins to steal Tarver's soul like he seemed to. I am old enough to remember when Holyfield was coming up to challenge Tyson. I wanted to see it but I didn't think that Tyson could lose to someone coming up in weight.

You might have gotten the details a little fuzzy, because Tyson was Evander's 18th opponent at heavyweight.

No I didn't.

[KiwiRider]

Some that come to mind:
I thought Holyfield would be stopped within 4 rounds vs Tyson. Thought he was too much of a warrior for his own best against Tyson.

Floyd vs Canelo: Saw Floyd training five days before the fight and he looked so small...I was also impressed by Canelos confidence and thought he would overpower and outwork Floyd.

Fury vs Klitschko: Thought Fury would get clipped within six rounds. That Klitschko eventually would get him sooner or later (like Wilder almost did).

De La Hoya vs Pacman: First time I heard about the bout I thought the whole idea was ridiculous. De La Hoya had barely lost to Floyd at Super welter the year before and Pacman just went up from Junior Light, had one bout at lightweight and now would fight De La Hoya - it seemed to much of a difference. Didn´t think about the speed difference though...

Didn´t learn my lesson and I picked Pacman to lose to Hatton, Cotto and Margarito. After that I have favored Pacman in all his fights except vs Floyd.

Wow, you and me are the bookies best mates!
I picked all of those, pretty much as you described, except Pac Hatton.
My other "indiscretions" would be Lemieux to KO BJS, and Maidana to outpoint Wifebeater Jr in their rematch.

[The Asleep Lamps]

Tyson vs Holyfield was a long time in the making. I used to read Ring magazine when Tyson was champion and they were always trying to find someone who could challenge him be it Ray Mercer or someone like that, or Holyfield moving up from cruiserweight. That is why when Floyd complained that the public was always trying to find people who could beat him, he really should have felt flattered . It was a testament to his dominance.

[Onetimeonly]

I told everyone in hs wander would beat him before he moved up.

[skanksta]

I lost about a month's take home pay on Julius Francis making Tyson break a sweat.

DLH vs Pac.
I read the weight thing completely wrong.

"Dynamite Dennis" vs Tommy Hearns.
I was just a naive young 'casual' fan then and too jingoistic.

Audley Harrison and David Price's careers - especially Pricey. I thought Fury was avoiding him !

[ValMar]

I forget to mention C. Smith vs. Groves. I felt that Groves has been much better SMW.

[littlepug]

Felt a right dickhead for picking Audley over Haye and an even bigger one for actually attending the fight, jeez that guy talked me round more than once !

[Ilya Muromets]

I thought Tyson - Golota would be the war of the century.

[Ilya Muromets]

Felt a right dickhead for picking Audley over Haye and an even bigger one for actually attending the fight, jeez that guy talked me round more than once !

That was another one of Haye's fixed fights.

[Onetimeonly]

Felt a right dickhead for picking Audley over Haye and an even bigger one for actually attending the fight, jeez that guy talked me round more than once !

That was another one of Haye's fixed fights.

Beautiful irony coming from a fan of Jun lung Zhang.!

[Ilya Muromets]

Felt a right dickhead for picking Audley over Haye and an even bigger one for actually attending the fight, jeez that guy talked me round more than once !

That was another one of Haye's fixed fights.

Beautiful irony coming from a fan of Jun lung Zhang.!

Who me? I'd like to see those alleged Chinese heavyweights fight that's all. Plus I think it would be great for boxing if China could get itself a champion, especially a heavyweight. But I'm hardly a "fan". I think the only time I've even seen any of them fight is some blurry youtube clip.

[Onetimeonly]

Felt a right dickhead for picking Audley over Haye and an even bigger one for actually attending the fight, jeez that guy talked me round more than once !

That was another one of Haye's fixed fights.

Beautiful irony coming from a fan of Jun lung Zhang.!

Who me? I'd like to see those alleged Chinese heavyweights fight that's all. Plus I think it would be great for boxing if China could get itself a champion, especially a heavyweight. But I'm hardly a "fan". I think the only time I've even seen any of them fight is some blurry youtube clip.

[gilgamesh]

The most painful for me was picking Jose Luis Castillo to win by KO 10 over Diego Corrales only for it to look like it was moments from happening, and then the opposite happened. All Time great fight, but I can't enjoy it as most due to feel at the time for me.

Chris Arreola to beat Stiverne the 1st time around

Wlad to knock out Fury

The latter two particularly stand out to me because I thought it was all but a certainty that the guys I'd pick to win would have won in those cases. That's why they fight the fights.

[oogiebe]

The most painful for me was picking Jose Luis Castillo to win by KO 10 over Diego Corrales only for it to look like it was moments from happening, and then the opposite happened. All Time great fight, but I can't enjoy it as most due to feel at the time for me.

Chris Arreola to beat Stiverne the 1st time around

Wlad to knock out Fury

The latter two particularly stand out to me because I thought it was all but a certainty that the guys I'd pick to win would have won in those cases. That's why they fight the fights.

Yup, me too.

[jamamb]

its not like stiverne had done anything to make that a bad pick though, i mean he had already been knocked out by a journeyman and then had a draw with another. granted arreolas pretty bad but they both looked that

[gilgamesh]

its not like stiverne had done anything to make that a bad pick

Yeah I know. I just remember how confident I was that Stiverne had no chance in hell, and that he sucked so hard there was no way he'd win. I thought it was a slam dunk

I remember posting a gif of a guy missing a slam dunk after the fight as a joke against myself, and my own certainty on the result.

[candyslim]

Well of course there have been loads down the years but nothing comes close to Ali upsetting Foreman. Sorry to be so predictable but I gave Ali no chance, and no result ever shocked me like that one.

I was pretty blown away by Lloyd Honeyghan beating Donald Curry, that was another I'd regarded as inconceivable.