Boxing fans love the upset, seeing the underdog surprise the heavy favorite and take the fight to him, winning over the fans and perhaps even more important the judges. Sylvester Stallone mined that emotion through his long series of Rocky films. Rocky is fiction, however. The men in "Rocky Lives " are real. David E. Finger, a writer for top boxing website FightNews.com, presents chronologically seventy-five heavyweight boxing upsets of the 1990s. Some involve boxers still fighting today; others contain a cautionary tale of once-great boxers chasing one last payday. There are also the...
Boxing fans love the upset, seeing the underdog surprise the heavy favorite and take the fight to him, winning over the fans and perhaps even more imp...