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Re: Be honest, the biggest upset you predicted
Posted: 29 Aug 2016, 17:13
by allInmoderationAIM
IF Wilder & Joshua ever GO (in respectable distances of time) that gonna be real nice to bet fight. I wonder where they will hold it though! O2 in England they could double arena size and yet it is going to sell out very quickly!
Re: Be honest, the biggest upset you predicted
Posted: 29 Aug 2016, 17:16
by allInmoderationAIM
What sort of purse money are we looking at? You KNOW it's something + of Seven million a side right now. & that is a lot of money but, I'm only a fan looking from outside.
Re: Be honest, the biggest upset you predicted
Posted: 27 Oct 2016, 09:38
by amwsnw
Holyfield v Tyson 1. I had bet a number of patrons at the local pub and the tally was up to $380 - I didn't have it. Now i am not religious but there was some sort of divine intervention that day otherwise i'd still be sucking through a straw.
Also Green v Roy Jones, but everyone in Australia was giving Green a pretty big chance.
Re: Be honest, the biggest upset you predicted
Posted: 27 Oct 2016, 11:07
by Keko
I remembered these
Steve Cruz over Barry McGuigan
Jermaine Taylor over Bernard Hopkins
James Tooney over Evander Holyfield
Re: Be honest, the biggest upset you predicted
Posted: 27 Oct 2016, 12:13
by Petu v.d. Pajm
Picked and bet in these :
Breidis Prescott over Amir Khan. Odds around 10-1
Ricardo Mayorga over Vernon Forrest (1st time). I think it was 6.50
Gerry Penalosa over Johnny Gonzalez. Odds were 7-1.
1st two were small bets, but had 150 euros on Penalosa.
I also (a long time ago) picked Gianfranco Rosi over Darrin van Horn. Vegas gave 10-1, but I was underaged and in Finland so no way of actually betting.
Re: Be honest, the biggest upset you predicted
Posted: 27 Oct 2016, 12:38
by SaadOffTheDeck
Holyfield/Tyson and maidana/broner were a couple I was completely positive heading in. I had a couple guys call me from hs because I had been saying evander would kick his ass since 1986.
Re: Be honest, the biggest upset you predicted
Posted: 27 Oct 2016, 13:12
by keithmoonhangover
Foreman-Moorer and Watson-Benn were fights I bet on and won a stack of money.
Re: Be honest, the biggest upset you predicted
Posted: 27 Oct 2016, 18:11
by SaadOffTheDeck
Did you pick foreman or just like the odds? I won a pile on Mosley/Margarito & Hopkins/pavlik but I didn't demand they would win.
Re: Be honest, the biggest upset you predicted
Posted: 29 Oct 2016, 02:04
by Kalan
Syntax Error wrote:Kalan wrote:Holyfield versus Tyson was 1 of the easiest calls ever.. I didn't understand the odds. They were laughable... One of the few fights in a generation that was skewed to a ridiculous degree that makes no sense.. A motivated Douglas flattened Tyson and a motivated Holyfield made very short work of an unmotivated Douglas.. What are you supposed to make of that??? .. Some fighters don't bother training hard for a fight when they feel they have little chance to win... If Douglas thought he could beat Holyfield he would have trained about as hard as he did for Tyson..
It's not the idea of "Hey I'm rich. If I win or if I lose they'll pay me the same. Phuk training hard." Douglas had to go through training camp win or lose. He's still a professional fighter with pride. If he thought he could beat Holyfield by being better prepared he would have trained harder. If you saw Holyfield sitting at ringside before the Tyson-Douglas fight, he had his game face on. He had an emotional maturity that Tyson didn't have, and he was one serious looking SOB. What happened in the fight had to make him feel even better. He got the winner and he was now after Douglas. He had a smile on his face replacing the "don't fk with me" countenance before the fight. His job just got easier.
I can understand the odds for Holyfield v Tyson 1.
Holyfield stank prior to the fight & looked just about done at top level.
Tyson looked fresh & resurgent & was mopping up the titles on his comeback, although, to be fair, when you've got terrified bums like Bruce Seldon & Frank Bruno as supposed 'champions', it was always going to be easy for Tyson to get his belts back.
There was nothing to suggest that Holyfield had anything left to beat Tyson.
I thought he would lose, but he'd give Tyson a bit of hell; almost like a one last hurrah scenario.
By the end of round two, I changed my mind completely & predicted a Holyfield KO in 10!
I wouldn't say Holyfield stank in any fight, or looked like he was done... He floored Bowe hard and had him going -- but he made the mistake of trading punches with a bigger man and paid for it.. Tyson was a small Heavyweight so it's a different matchup.. Holyfield beat Mercer, Bowe, and Czyz and I thought looked very good in training for Tyson.. I could never see Tyson beating a big, strong, Heavyweight who was fast and skilled.. Not after he fought Douglas. I gave Douglas 9 of 10 rounds.. Holyfield was a small Heavyweight, but was 3 inches taller than Tyson and a much better boxer.. When Evander got his weight and strength up past 215 to 218 he did better than when he was too damned light.. If you're a small Heavyweight you need to hit that weight room with excellent strength coaches -- and you can't skip on the steaks or whey protein powder.. They're paying you millions of dollars so you need to spend some on great nutrition and training facilities. He certainly looked ready for Mike.
Re: Be honest, the biggest upset you predicted
Posted: 29 Oct 2016, 04:21
by davie
I once predicted Sergey Kovalev would beat Nadjib Mohammedi.
I usually back the favourite and when I go for the underdog, he usually ends up on the end of the forecast spanking he was supposed to get.
The closest I get to predicting an upset is when I back a British fighter and he causes an upset
but my prediction isn't due to my keen eye for a shock result, more due to my biased, rose tinted view and the eternal optimist in me that always give my man a chance.