Boxing's Biggest Upsets Archives

How does one measure an upset? Simple: by the number of chins on the floor at the end of the fight. And the power of the shockwaves felt by the entire sport. Herewith, the twelve greatest upsets in

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July 12, 1986: Holyfield vs Qawi

July 12, 2021July 14, 2021

You rarely see fighters who love the sheer brutality of boxing as much as Dwight Muhammad Qawi once did. Fighters who smile when they take punches. Fighters who literally and figuratively shrug off clean shots that are, to

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Fight City Legends: The Aldgate Sphinx

November 15, 2019November 18, 2019

Historically speaking, boxing is a sport of great rivalries, though now we can only pine for the days when pugilists thought nothing of facing an adversary more than once in a single year. As it is, the trilogy,

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Feb. 25, 1964: Clay vs Liston I

February 25, 2021February 28, 2021

An earthquake. The ground collapsing beneath one’s feet. All that is established and familiar giving way to things new and strange and frightening. We’re only human so don’t judge too harshly the America that woke up on a

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Sept. 9, 1983: Pryor vs Arguello II

September 9, 2021September 12, 2021

Do a Google search for Alexis Arguello and you end up with articles and videos about Aaron Pryor. Do one for Aaron Pryor and you end up with all kinds of links and posts about Alexis Arguello. It

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