My top 6 upsets

1 JAMES ‘BUSTER’ DOUGLAS BEAT MIKE TYSON (HEAVYWEIGHT) BY KO TOKYO, FEB 10, 1990 (AT RINGSIDE) The 40-1 shock was even more powerful than the earthquake that rocked Tokyo after Douglas (right) nerved himself to get off the canvas from that long count and fulfil his promise to his dying mother by flattening the seemingly invincible Iron Mike.

2 RANDY TURPIN BEAT SUGAR RAY ROBINSON (MIDDLEWEIGHT) ON POINTS EARL’S COURT ARENA, LONDON, JULY 10, 1951 My father sneaked me in as a boy to watch the immortal Sugar Ray. I roared along with Turpin’s ‘impossible’ victory but it was watching in awe the greatest fighter in the world that started a lifelong love affair with boxing.

3 CASSIUS CLAY BEAT SONNY LISTON (HEAVYWEIGHT) BY TKO MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, FEB 25, 1964 (ON PATHE NEWS IN THE LOCAL CINEMA) The advent of The Greatest as he ‘shook up the world’ by knocking out the Liston monster. A planetary phenomenon, not just a star, was born.

4 TYSON FURY BEAT WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO (HEAVYWEIGHT) BY UNANIMOUS DECISION DUSSELDORF, NOVEMBER 28, 2015.

5 MUHAMMAD ALI BEAT GEORGE FOREMAN (HEAVYWEIGHT) BY KO KINSHASA, ZAIRE, OCT 30, 1974 (ON CLOSED-CIRCUIT TRANSMISSION TO A WEST END THEATRE) The Rumble in the Jungle was the most extraordinary performance. Ali’s Rope-a-Dope was an ageing man’s triumph over a brute of a younger man.

6 LLOYD HONEYGHAN BEAT DONALD CURRY (WELTERWEIGHT) CAESAR’S HOTEL AND CASINO, NEW JERSEY, SEPT 27, 1986 (ON TV) Our Ragamuffin Man went to America to shock the undefeated Curry, who was then rated the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world. Curry had given Honeyghan (right) that nickname by way of a dismissive remark and had to eat his words as he suffered a sixth-round KO.