[Hollywood Blond]

Not huge upsets, but the nature of the defeats stood out to me. Sonny Liston twice bested Jou Louis. The first fight, Louis came out in the first round and did some serious damage to Liston. The second round, Liston won and Louis suffered an injury. The third round, Louis dominated and knocked Liston down. The fourth round was won by Liston and the fifth by Louis. In the sixth, Louis once again hurt Liston and knocked him down. By now, Liston's face was swollen up and his Endurance meter was empty; it appeared he had little chance left. Then out of nowhere, Louis quit on his stool before the start of the seventh round due to the injury he had sustained earlier in the fight.

Louis eventually earned a rematch (Liston was world champ) and this time, Louis dominated the first eight rounds, never doing serious damage to Liston but outclassing him every step of the way. Then in the 9th, Liston just began to land punch after punch. Louis was never given a chance to cover-up; there was not even a textual indication that he was rocked. He just kept getting hit by Liston until Liston had done about 30 points of damage and the fight was stopped.

Also, Listen successfully defended against the 15-rated Ali in a 15 round fight where Ali won the first seven rounds and Liston proceeded to win eight in a row when Ali just seemed to shut down. It was a very odd title reign.