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01-03-2013, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by footodors
Cain JDS should be #1. Nobody saw that felony mauling coming.
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Money Mayweather did. He put 200K down on Cain.
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01-03-2013, 03:09 PM
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Bantamweight
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Originally Posted by OUSOONERSOU
Money Mayweather did. He put 200K down on Cain.
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So he says. He probably put the same amount on JDS and wonders why he ended up even. |
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01-03-2013, 03:18 PM
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Degenerate Gambler
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Um a lot of those weren't upsets at all, and most of them were less than 2:1 dogs.
In no particular order the biggest upsets (by betting line) were these:
Elkins/Brandao
Varner/Barboza
KZ/Poirier
Boetsch/Okami
Yagin/Hominick
Boetsch/Lombard
Brimage/Hettes
Barboza and Okami were 6:1, so those were the biggest in reality. Some of these don't seem like big upsets in retrospect, but we have to give credit where credit is due.
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01-03-2013, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by WatchinMMA
I agree Cain and JDS should be in that list.
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Originally Posted by footodors
Cain JDS should be #1. Nobody saw that felony mauling coming.
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Can't say I agree, if Cain was a nobody HW then yes. Truth is he was the #2 HW in the world going into the fight (and not off from #1 by much). That does'nt qualify as an upset in my books, far from it. |
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01-03-2013, 03:57 PM
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Not a huge year for big upsets. A lot of those weren't even upsets, or minimal at best.
It was because Barboza was totally overrated and Varner was written off, but that was a huge upset on the books.
Franklin/Le should have at least made the top 10.
Nate Diaz vs. Cerrone was a decent number on the books. And a lot of people wrote Nate off with little chance. That should have at least been mentioned somewhere.
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01-03-2013, 04:25 PM
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Lightweight
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Originally Posted by OUSOONERSOU
Cung knocking out Ace was the biggest shocker of the year for me. I still think Ace is 2 classes above Cung Le as a fighter.
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Yeah, that would be my number one. I think Franklin wins that fight 9 times out of 10. |
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01-03-2013, 07:46 PM
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Degenerate Gambler
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Originally Posted by jonnyg4508
Not a huge year for big upsets. A lot of those weren't even upsets, or minimal at best.
It was because Barboza was totally overrated and Varner was written off, but that was a huge upset on the books.
Franklin/Le should have at least made the top 10.
Nate Diaz vs. Cerrone was a decent number on the books. And a lot of people wrote Nate off with little chance. That should have at least been mentioned somewhere.
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Diaz/Cerrone was 2011.
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01-03-2013, 08:31 PM
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My number one upset of the year would of been when that video came out of Cain sucking off all those dudes. Shocker.
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01-03-2013, 10:05 PM
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My number one upset of the year would of been when that video came out of Cain sucking off all those dudes. Shocker.
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01-03-2013, 10:15 PM
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Varner / Barbosa hands down.
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UFC's ten best upsets of 2012.
