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Andy Ruiz, Jr (+1100) stuns boxing world with TKO of heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua (-2500).
Rematch Dec 31?!
Rematch Dec 31?!
If you bet $100 on Andy Ruiz, Jr you would have won $1,100.
Bet Anthony Joshua $2500 you would have won $100.
In the seventh round of Saturday night’s heavyweight title fight, one of boxing’s biggest stars fell to one knee and then staggered to the corner. Referee Michael Griffin walked over to Anthony Joshua, watched him as he made an attempt to recover and then called the fight with 1:26 remaining in the round.
With that, Andy Ruiz Jr. shocked the sport.
Ruiz’s knockout of the heavyweight champion Joshua (22-1, 21 KOs), making his U.S. debut in Madison Square Garden, was predicted by few. Ruiz (33-1, 22 KOs), a 14-1 underdog coming into the night according to the FanDuel sportsbook, scored four knockdowns of the British star, including his TKO victory in the seventh.
Joshua lost his International Boxing Federation (IBF), International Boxing Organization (IBO), World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) titles with the upset.
Ruiz, a native of Southern California, is the first fighter of Mexican descent to win a heavyweight title. He was chosen as a late replacement for Jarell Miller in this fight after Miller failed a drug test. The 270-pound Ruiz had little time to prepare, having just fought Alexander Dimitrenko on April 20.
In what was widely expected to be an easy test for Joshua, the sellout crowd of 20,201 at the Garden ended up with an action-packed battle. Both fighters were knocked down in a dramatic third round, with Ruiz going first and then Joshua falling on an overhand right. Ruiz knocked the defending champ down again just before the round ended.
Ruiz knocked down Joshua again in the seventh before his fourth and final fall.
The Top Ten Greatest Boxing Upsets of All Time
The Top Ten Greatest Boxing Upsets of All Time
by Scotty L of Predictem.com
by Scotty L of Predictem.com
In boxing, upsets register more shock than in other sports. A loss, while an afterthought in other sports, is often unfathomable in boxing. Some fighters have built such a fearsome reputation that when they lose; viewers are left slack-jawed scrambling to make sense of it.
Here are some upsets that at the time left the boxing world, and sometimes the world of sports, in shock. Look for the earmarks! Maybe you can have a little money on the next one.
To kick off our top ten greatest upsets of all time, we’ll start with one that we
STILL can’t believe!
1. Buster Douglas KO 10 Mike Tyson (1990): The signs were there. Tyson had a whirlwind of controversy around him. Marriage, lifestyle, as well as management and training problems had eroded the once-great fighting machine. Still, nearly everyone except 42-1 underdog Douglas himself figured Tyson would easily dispatch of his uncelebrated foe. 10 rounds later, a semi-conscious Tyson was on the mat groping for his mouthpiece and Buster Douglas was Heavyweight Champion of the World. Not only is this the greatest upset in boxing history, but likely in all of sports history as well.
2. Randy Turpin W 15 Sugar Ray Robinson (1951): Robinson, the greatest boxer ever, had compiled a staggering record showing one loss in over 130 fights, including a 90-fight unbeaten streak. Turpin, a championship-caliber fighter, but considered a non-threat to Robinson, spanked Robinson resoundingly to win a decision.
3. Cassius Clay KO 7 Sonny Liston (1964): This upset is noted more for its historical significance than anything else, though the 8-1 odds against the future Muhammad Ali classify this as a gigantic upset. Liston was considered invincible, having left a trail of broken bones and crushed dreams in his path. Coming off a pair of first-round knockouts over ex-champ Floyd Patterson, most figured he would easily dispatch of Clay. Instead, this fight signaled the beginning of the greatest era in heavyweight history.
4. Hasim Rahman KO 5 Lennox Lewis (2001): Looking back, Lewis was vulnerable to the one-shot KO punch. Unexceptional Oliver McCall had managed it in his only other loss, and the powerful Rahman seemed a decent candidate to do the same against the complacent Lewis. Lewis had recently been on a movie set for Oceans Eleven and came to South Africa too late to properly acclimate to the different conditions. The 20-1 odds in Lewis favor speak volumes about the shock value of this result. Lewis, ragged and unprepared bounced off the ropes and caught a haymaker that shocked the boxing world.
5. Jim Braddock W 15 Max Baer (1935): The Cinderella Man had fallen to alarming depths in his boxing career. After briefly becoming a light heavyweight contender, he had flamed out, winning only 9 of his next 30 bouts. He somehow resurrected himself with a series of unlikely wins, culminating with an upset decision over Heavyweight Champion Max Baer. Braddock was a 10-1 underdog. Probably the biggest career turnaround in boxing history.
6. Corrie Sanders KO 2 Wladamir Klitschko (2003): Klitschko, poised for bigger things, was supposed to stomp Sanders in this stay-busy fight. Sanders was dug out of retirement where he had been working as a golf pro in his native South Africa. The 20-1 underdog looked doughy and aged. That made it all the more startling when the unsung Sanders spanked current kingpin Klitschko around the ring for a 2nd
round knockout. It was a rout.
7. Max Schmeling KO 12 Joe Louis (1934): In his brief career, Louis had already become an international sensation. Another step on his way to the title was the aging former champion Schmeling, who was expected to test the upstart Louis while not really threatening him. But as Schmeling later said, I seen something. Constant watching of films revealed to Schmeling that Louis frequently dropped his left hand after throwing a right. Timing him all night with his own formidable right hand, the superbly conditioned Schmeling pounded Louis like a nail into a piece of wood for a 12th round knockout win in a cataclysmic upset that shook the boxing world.
8. Darryl Pinckney KO 3 Junior Jones (1994): It was an uncelebrated bout, largely because it was seen as a tune-up for the former champion Jones. Having lost his title in the sweltering heat in Vegas earlier in the year, he was looking to rebuild. Pinckney, with a record of 18-18-2, seemed a safe opponent. He almost knocked Jones head off. Jones would go on to twice defeat Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera, proving his worth and making this a very strange result indeed.
9. Frankie Randall W 12 Julio Cesar Chavez (1994): Chavez was undefeated in 90 fights and while he was aging, the even-older Randall was seen as no threat. A 15-1 underdog, Randall had once been a hot lightweight property, but that was back in the first half of the 80s. Drug, legal, and managerial issues had apparently sapped him of his promise. In a fiercely contested fight, Randall fought with passion and fury, dropping the iron-jawed Chavez for the first time, and winning a split decision.
10. Muhammad Ali KO 8 George Foreman (1974): 10 years after his first monumental upset, Ali again faced a fearsome and heavily favored knockout machine in George Foreman. Alis chances seemed remote, especially after watching Foreman bounce Ali-conqueror Joe Frazier around the ring like a super ball to win a title. People actually feared for the slowing Alis health. In a surreal atmosphere in Zaire, Ali rope-a-doped Foreman into exhaustion, then picked him apart for an 8th round knockout win.
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