[Music]
sometimes the underdog comes out on top
you know when you put the bullet on
don’t think and run and then I want
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for another top
ten sports upsets then we set a prayer
before and you know we pray a lot and we
expect a lot of things but this is shows
how powerful God is and man I’m so
thankful for the job that these guys did
on this racecar for this list we’re
taking a look at even more of the most
shocking single game upsets in
professional sports
that means no series upsets in this time
no college upsets Red Sox fans of the
Boston Red Sox are world champions
number 10 ronda rousey vs holly holm UFC
193 well it sounds like a cliche but
here’s a woman who needs no introduction
going into her fight with Holly Holm
Ronda Rousey was touted as one of the
greatest pound-for-pound female mixed
martial artists in the UFC arguably of
all time she’d won all of her previous
fights convincingly either knocking out
her opponents or forcing them to submit
sometimes just seconds into the fight
needless to say Ronda was confident
before the fight and was expected to
defend her belt for a long long time
kind of reminds me of like a bracket in
judo you’re not gonna win the Olympics
unless you win the first round of de
limpet trials the finals Olympic Trials
the first round of Olympics or the
quarterfinals like every single one of
them is just as important as a limpet
final but that all came crashing down in
the most attended UFC match to that
point when former boxer Holly Holm
stepped into the Octagon and knocked
Ronda out with a devastating high kick
to the head in the second round to
become the new UFC women’s bantamweight
champion of the world so it’s a huge
giant leap but that’s ok with me I’m
going in there to win I’m taking this
fight with full confidence but I’m gonna
go in there
and I’m gonna do what I want to do
number nine the Green Bay Packers versus
the Denver Broncos Super Bowl xxxii
Brett Favre’s Green Bay Packers were the
defending Super Bowl champions and
11-point favorites over John Elway’s
Broncos who had already lost in three
Super Bowls during the Hall of Fame
quarterbacks tenure Broncos running back
Terrell Davis ran for 157 yards and
scored three rushing touchdowns despite
a blinding migraine what they see okay
just do this but it was Elway’s
helicopter a dramatic dive into the end
zone where the QB sacrificed his body
and got flipped around in midair by
Packers defenders that became one of the
most iconic moments in any Super Bowl
and a signature play in his incredible
NFL career every once-in-a-while game
gives you that play that everybody kind
of recognizes what’s unfolding as it
happened and the Elway helicopter was
one of those moments when you say we can
skip ahead here we know how it ends
the Broncos played power football and
beat the favorite Packers to become
Super Bowl champions
number eight everyone versus trevor
bayne the 2011 Daytona 500 just a normal
kid I still hang out with my friends in
Knoxville and North Carolina
I mean I go out wakeboard snowboard play
guitar all that stuff at 20 years and
one day old trevor bayne defeated
several far more experienced drivers and
avoided multiple wrecks to become the
youngest person ever to win the Daytona
500 and only the second person to win
the race on his first try believable
happy birthday Trevor made twenty years
old racing in just his second career Cup
start bein suited up with Wood Brothers
Racing a team with a lack of sponsorship
that was in the midst of a 10-year
winless drought look at this oh my god
this is unbelievable this is fairytale
stuff beating legends like Jeff Gordon
and Dale Earnhardt jr. bein shocked the
racing world by crossing the finish line
ahead of everyone and becoming possibly
the most unlikely cinderella story in
the races history Bane’s achievement
will probably remain the biggest upset
in NASCAR history for quite some time
Travis I’m gonna say some words to you
you’re a Daytona 500 winner has it sunk
in no I keep thinking I’m dreaming I
really do number seven Japan versus
South Africa the 2015 Rugby World Cup
the upset is still on for any judge and
the great blossoms South Africa is an
undisputed rugby powerhouse taking home
the World Cup twice since the tournament
began in 1987 this will go from the
captain
[Applause]
cincin Africa into the last board of the
World Cup Japan has qualified for every
single Rugby World Cup since the
tournament’s inception but had only won
a single game in their seven previous
appearances before 2015
Japan stunned the world when they
defeated South Africa 34 to 32 in the
opening game of the pool stage which
happened to be their first win in the
tournament since 1991 Japan didn’t go
far in the later stages of the
tournament but finished the pool stage
with three victories and their best
record so far but their astonishing
upset over the Springboks has put them
on the world rugby map for good
okay number six Rafael Nadal vs. robin
söderling the 2009 French Open its wine
söderling takes out nadal rafael nadal
was seemingly unbeatable on the clay
courts of the French Open taking home
four consecutive titles from 2005 to
2008
that’s why tennis fans were so surprised
when he lost to the relatively unknown
robin söderling in the fourth round of
the 2009 tournament while many cite the
knee tendinitis that kept the doll out
of Wimbledon a few weeks later as the
cause of this dramatic upset we can’t
forget to mention söderling splay as he
absolutely dominated one of the greatest
tennis stars of all time I know how how
he Blair how dangerous he can be but
yesterday I didn’t play my best n isn’t
ya know I didn’t attack in our moment I
play very short and I makes him very
easy to play at this level
söderling ultimately lost in the final
to Roger Federer but he and Nadal would
meet again the following year in the
final of the French Open where Nadal
came out on top an order has been
restored
in Paris
once again rafael nadal unchallenged
wins his kid
title number five George Foreman vs.
Muhammad Ali the undisputed World
Heavyweight Championship maybe he can
pull off a miracle but against George
Foreman so young so strong so fearless
it was infamous boxing promoter Don
King’s idea to have dictator Mobutu Sese
Seko pay for and host a fight between
Ali and Foreman in what was then the
African nation of Zaire Don King put
this together it was not a color put it
together
you understand I’d like to call him the
Messiah the result was the rumble in the
jungle
for context Ali had been stripped of his
title for dodging the Vietnam draft and
lost by decision to Joe Frazier in the
fight of the century his first title
fight since his comeback the 32 year-old
faced off against the young champion
Foreman to finally reclaim his title as
heavyweight champion and he did so in
tremendous fashion the champ sat back
and let big George tire himself out by
using what later became known as the
rope-a-dope technique finally knocking
Foreman out in the closing moments of
the eighth round
number four the st. Louis Rams versus
the New England Patriots Super Bowl 36
Adam Vinatieri will try to win it with a
47-yard in the New England Patriots
first ever Super Bowl win
sixth round draft pick and backup turn
starting quarterback Tom Brady went from
being a relative nobody to a household
name
Angela pocket dumps it off to the left
of dick the junior legend 30 35 to the
40 and a first down he did so by
becoming the youngest quarterback at the
time to ever win a Super Bowl
leading his team to victory over Kurt
Warner and the offensive juggernaut the
greatest show on turf st. Louis Rams the
Rams enter the game 14-point favorites
but it didn’t matter because this was
the first time in Super Bowl history
that the game was won on the last play
of the game seven seconds
they got Bennett Arian right
down the pen
thirty-six as the clock wound down Adam
Vinatieri managed to kick a 48-yard
field goal to secure the win for the
Pats 20 to 17
[Applause]
[Music]
number three Serena Williams versus
Roberta Vinci the 2015 US Open how do
you describe it Serena Williams was just
two wins away from making history having
reached the semi-finals of the US Open
after already winning the rest of the
Grand Slam events in the 2015 calendar
year she was pitted against the unseated
Italian Roberta Vinci a victory for
Williams would have put her within 1 win
of accomplishing something no woman had
done since Steffi Graf in 1988 and that
only three women had done before at all
to complete a calendar year grand slam
unfortunately for Williams Vinci came to
play while the first set went to Serena
Vinci took over and decisively ended
Williams chance at the elusive calendar
year grand slam
unfortunately Vinci lost in the final to
fellow Italian Flavia Pennetta
[Music]
number two man o’war vs upset the 1919
Sanford memorial stakes then there was
Man O War one of the great great authors
of all time even though the horse was
named upset no one could have predicted
just how much he would live up to that
name at the Sanford memorial stakes in
the summer of 1919 the famed
thoroughbred Man O War was on a six race
win streak when upset managed to win the
race by a nose becoming the only horse
in history to defeat the legendary Man O
War he was only beaten once in a 21 race
career he had a lordly imperious
difficult temper his trainer once said
of him he was held to break a headache
to handle in a catapult a ride in fact
some would have you believe that the
term upset originated as a result of
this win as the term is used to refer to
surprising or unlikely sports winds
while this isn’t necessarily true upset
definitely had a hand in popularizing
the term when a big favorite is
surprisingly defeated there’s a word for
that we call it an upset and a large
part of the reason why traces back to
right here at Saratoga and the 1919
Sandford state before we unveil our
number one pick here are some honorable
mentions spot in the air it’s got the
distance to England could do no more the
match ended one nail and the shock
result traveled around the world to be
met with disbelief crazy
[Applause]
3 2 pitch
[Applause]
are they Jenna
is gonna Miami down goes the bell again
[Applause]
he’s missed but there
penalty markers down
[Applause]
illegal substitution too many men on the
field number one Germany vs. Denmark the
1992 UEFA Euro you have one more
surprise left for us in this
championship I hope so why not the
Danish national football team was called
on to replace war-torn Yugoslavia less
than two weeks before the start of the
1992 euros the war in Yugoslavia it was
so cruel and gruesome that the
international community decided that
that enough is enough you know we’re
going to ban Yugoslavia everything and
sporting world to the stands as well
most fans saw their unlikely advancement
in the tournament as a stroke of luck
that would inevitably fade away as they
edged their way to the final against a
much stronger German squad very few
expected to see Denmark actually win the
game while keeping a clean sheet but
they did it
the Danes were crowned champions of the
tournament after a convincing to nail
upset over a team that was much better
than them on paper one of the sports
world’s great underdog stories this
monumental final stands as a reminder
that anything can happen on matchday it
stands unviable to anything else is
happening sport in Denmark and
you know people have they have an
experience for that moment and people
come up to even 20 years on come up to
you and tell you exactly where they were
at that particular moment do you agree
with our list which underdog story is
your favorite for more exciting top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
[Applause]
the 2009 Grey Cup champions
[Music]
sometimes the underdog comes out on top
you know when you put the bullet on
don’t think and run and then I want
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for another top
ten sports upsets then we set a prayer
before and you know we pray a lot and we
expect a lot of things but this is shows
how powerful God is and man I’m so
thankful for the job that these guys did
on this racecar for this list we’re
taking a look at even more of the most
shocking single game upsets in
professional sports
that means no series upsets in this time
no college upsets Red Sox fans of the
Boston Red Sox are world champions
number 10 ronda rousey vs holly holm UFC
193 well it sounds like a cliche but
here’s a woman who needs no introduction
going into her fight with Holly Holm
Ronda Rousey was touted as one of the
greatest pound-for-pound female mixed
martial artists in the UFC arguably of
all time she’d won all of her previous
fights convincingly either knocking out
her opponents or forcing them to submit
sometimes just seconds into the fight
needless to say Ronda was confident
before the fight and was expected to
defend her belt for a long long time
kind of reminds me of like a bracket in
judo you’re not gonna win the Olympics
unless you win the first round of de
limpet trials the finals Olympic Trials
the first round of Olympics or the
quarterfinals like every single one of
them is just as important as a limpet
final but that all came crashing down in
the most attended UFC match to that
point when former boxer Holly Holm
stepped into the Octagon and knocked
Ronda out with a devastating high kick
to the head in the second round to
become the new UFC women’s bantamweight
champion of the world so it’s a huge
giant leap but that’s ok with me I’m
going in there to win I’m taking this
fight with full confidence but I’m gonna
go in there
and I’m gonna do what I want to do
number nine the Green Bay Packers versus
the Denver Broncos Super Bowl xxxii
Brett Favre’s Green Bay Packers were the
defending Super Bowl champions and
11-point favorites over John Elway’s
Broncos who had already lost in three
Super Bowls during the Hall of Fame
quarterbacks tenure Broncos running back
Terrell Davis ran for 157 yards and
scored three rushing touchdowns despite
a blinding migraine what they see okay
just do this but it was Elway’s
helicopter a dramatic dive into the end
zone where the QB sacrificed his body
and got flipped around in midair by
Packers defenders that became one of the
most iconic moments in any Super Bowl
and a signature play in his incredible
NFL career every once-in-a-while game
gives you that play that everybody kind
of recognizes what’s unfolding as it
happened and the Elway helicopter was
one of those moments when you say we can
skip ahead here we know how it ends
the Broncos played power football and
beat the favorite Packers to become
Super Bowl champions
number eight everyone versus trevor
bayne the 2011 Daytona 500 just a normal
kid I still hang out with my friends in
Knoxville and North Carolina
I mean I go out wakeboard snowboard play
guitar all that stuff at 20 years and
one day old trevor bayne defeated
several far more experienced drivers and
avoided multiple wrecks to become the
youngest person ever to win the Daytona
500 and only the second person to win
the race on his first try believable
happy birthday Trevor made twenty years
old racing in just his second career Cup
start bein suited up with Wood Brothers
Racing a team with a lack of sponsorship
that was in the midst of a 10-year
winless drought look at this oh my god
this is unbelievable this is fairytale
stuff beating legends like Jeff Gordon
and Dale Earnhardt jr. bein shocked the
racing world by crossing the finish line
ahead of everyone and becoming possibly
the most unlikely cinderella story in
the races history Bane’s achievement
will probably remain the biggest upset
in NASCAR history for quite some time
Travis I’m gonna say some words to you
you’re a Daytona 500 winner has it sunk
in no I keep thinking I’m dreaming I
really do number seven Japan versus
South Africa the 2015 Rugby World Cup
the upset is still on for any judge and
the great blossoms South Africa is an
undisputed rugby powerhouse taking home
the World Cup twice since the tournament
began in 1987 this will go from the
captain
[Applause]
cincin Africa into the last board of the
World Cup Japan has qualified for every
single Rugby World Cup since the
tournament’s inception but had only won
a single game in their seven previous
appearances before 2015
Japan stunned the world when they
defeated South Africa 34 to 32 in the
opening game of the pool stage which
happened to be their first win in the
tournament since 1991 Japan didn’t go
far in the later stages of the
tournament but finished the pool stage
with three victories and their best
record so far but their astonishing
upset over the Springboks has put them
on the world rugby map for good
okay number six Rafael Nadal vs. robin
söderling the 2009 French Open its wine
söderling takes out nadal rafael nadal
was seemingly unbeatable on the clay
courts of the French Open taking home
four consecutive titles from 2005 to
2008
that’s why tennis fans were so surprised
when he lost to the relatively unknown
robin söderling in the fourth round of
the 2009 tournament while many cite the
knee tendinitis that kept the doll out
of Wimbledon a few weeks later as the
cause of this dramatic upset we can’t
forget to mention söderling splay as he
absolutely dominated one of the greatest
tennis stars of all time I know how how
he Blair how dangerous he can be but
yesterday I didn’t play my best n isn’t
ya know I didn’t attack in our moment I
play very short and I makes him very
easy to play at this level
söderling ultimately lost in the final
to Roger Federer but he and Nadal would
meet again the following year in the
final of the French Open where Nadal
came out on top an order has been
restored
in Paris
once again rafael nadal unchallenged
wins his kid
title number five George Foreman vs.
Muhammad Ali the undisputed World
Heavyweight Championship maybe he can
pull off a miracle but against George
Foreman so young so strong so fearless
it was infamous boxing promoter Don
King’s idea to have dictator Mobutu Sese
Seko pay for and host a fight between
Ali and Foreman in what was then the
African nation of Zaire Don King put
this together it was not a color put it
together
you understand I’d like to call him the
Messiah the result was the rumble in the
jungle
for context Ali had been stripped of his
title for dodging the Vietnam draft and
lost by decision to Joe Frazier in the
fight of the century his first title
fight since his comeback the 32 year-old
faced off against the young champion
Foreman to finally reclaim his title as
heavyweight champion and he did so in
tremendous fashion the champ sat back
and let big George tire himself out by
using what later became known as the
rope-a-dope technique finally knocking
Foreman out in the closing moments of
the eighth round
number four the st. Louis Rams versus
the New England Patriots Super Bowl 36
Adam Vinatieri will try to win it with a
47-yard in the New England Patriots
first ever Super Bowl win
sixth round draft pick and backup turn
starting quarterback Tom Brady went from
being a relative nobody to a household
name
Angela pocket dumps it off to the left
of dick the junior legend 30 35 to the
40 and a first down he did so by
becoming the youngest quarterback at the
time to ever win a Super Bowl
leading his team to victory over Kurt
Warner and the offensive juggernaut the
greatest show on turf st. Louis Rams the
Rams enter the game 14-point favorites
but it didn’t matter because this was
the first time in Super Bowl history
that the game was won on the last play
of the game seven seconds
they got Bennett Arian right
down the pen
thirty-six as the clock wound down Adam
Vinatieri managed to kick a 48-yard
field goal to secure the win for the
Pats 20 to 17
[Applause]
[Music]
number three Serena Williams versus
Roberta Vinci the 2015 US Open how do
you describe it Serena Williams was just
two wins away from making history having
reached the semi-finals of the US Open
after already winning the rest of the
Grand Slam events in the 2015 calendar
year she was pitted against the unseated
Italian Roberta Vinci a victory for
Williams would have put her within 1 win
of accomplishing something no woman had
done since Steffi Graf in 1988 and that
only three women had done before at all
to complete a calendar year grand slam
unfortunately for Williams Vinci came to
play while the first set went to Serena
Vinci took over and decisively ended
Williams chance at the elusive calendar
year grand slam
unfortunately Vinci lost in the final to
fellow Italian Flavia Pennetta
[Music]
number two man o’war vs upset the 1919
Sanford memorial stakes then there was
Man O War one of the great great authors
of all time even though the horse was
named upset no one could have predicted
just how much he would live up to that
name at the Sanford memorial stakes in
the summer of 1919 the famed
thoroughbred Man O War was on a six race
win streak when upset managed to win the
race by a nose becoming the only horse
in history to defeat the legendary Man O
War he was only beaten once in a 21 race
career he had a lordly imperious
difficult temper his trainer once said
of him he was held to break a headache
to handle in a catapult a ride in fact
some would have you believe that the
term upset originated as a result of
this win as the term is used to refer to
surprising or unlikely sports winds
while this isn’t necessarily true upset
definitely had a hand in popularizing
the term when a big favorite is
surprisingly defeated there’s a word for
that we call it an upset and a large
part of the reason why traces back to
right here at Saratoga and the 1919
Sandford state before we unveil our
number one pick here are some honorable
mentions spot in the air it’s got the
distance to England could do no more the
match ended one nail and the shock
result traveled around the world to be
met with disbelief crazy
[Applause]
3 2 pitch
[Applause]
are they Jenna
is gonna Miami down goes the bell again
[Applause]
he’s missed but there
penalty markers down
[Applause]
illegal substitution too many men on the
field number one Germany vs. Denmark the
1992 UEFA Euro you have one more
surprise left for us in this
championship I hope so why not the
Danish national football team was called
on to replace war-torn Yugoslavia less
than two weeks before the start of the
1992 euros the war in Yugoslavia it was
so cruel and gruesome that the
international community decided that
that enough is enough you know we’re
going to ban Yugoslavia everything and
sporting world to the stands as well
most fans saw their unlikely advancement
in the tournament as a stroke of luck
that would inevitably fade away as they
edged their way to the final against a
much stronger German squad very few
expected to see Denmark actually win the
game while keeping a clean sheet but
they did it
the Danes were crowned champions of the
tournament after a convincing to nail
upset over a team that was much better
than them on paper one of the sports
world’s great underdog stories this
monumental final stands as a reminder
that anything can happen on matchday it
stands unviable to anything else is
happening sport in Denmark and
you know people have they have an
experience for that moment and people
come up to even 20 years on come up to
you and tell you exactly where they were
at that particular moment do you agree
with our list which underdog story is
your favorite for more exciting top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
[Applause]
the 2009 Grey Cup champions
[Music]
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