What do you consider the greatest underdog story?

[angel55]

I think Bookmakers wise, Leicester to win the league was probably the greatest underdog story that actually happened. Even Kim Kardashian to become the president of United States has lower odds(2000-1) than Leicester to win the league. It was an incredible run but sadly, I think the bookmakers will be more cautious since that happened and I dont think we will ever see any bookmakers give 5000:1 odds on any event since Leicester win.

lol Kim Kardashian becoming president, wouldn't be surprised if she will someday after Trump got elected.  This is the time of the celebrity president.

I would like to find data on how much money in total was placed on Leicester to win the league at the start of the season.

[OneHash]

Yep.

We were wondering, wondering, wondering and finally found something big.

Each story worthy the Hollywood adaptation. At least

Biggest upsets in sports history by OneHash

[Ucy]

Mine was in 1996 when a football team came from 4-0 down or something to win the world cup against Brazil..  No one expected that to happen. The best player from the other team that lost cried alot that after the match.

[hahay]

Maybe the story I've experienced in the past has been forgotten, but for tennis and horse racing I'm sure at that point I at least often bet on underdogs because I'm only looking for high odds betting on tennis and horse racing, that way is very opposite when I bet in football, basketball, and also ice hockey. Among all that, I was just happy with the story of betting on a horse race that had a good profit, which initially only had a bankroll of 1mbtc, at least I was able to reach +10mbtc at that time. That is indeed a little money, but I'm happy to be able to achieve that winning.

[iMark]

A few years ago when Leicester won the Premier League won the title at 5000:1 odds got me interested in what you all consider the best underdog story of sports and what were the gambling odds if you can find them.?

Can be any sporting match, horse racing, etc.

Last time of course a few days ago when Liverpool vs Barcelona. many people certainly expect that Barcelona will quilfy to the final and win th champions league, even Lionel Messi is very confident champions trophies will be taken again to Camp Nou, Luis Suarez is very bragged not to celebrate when scoring goals at anfield. A very impossible mission for Liverpool because they had to score 4 goals
without conceding goals from a strong team like Barcelona? but all of that finally happened, how many odds did Liverpool quilify at that time?

[aioc]

A few years ago when Leicester won the Premier League won the title at 5000:1 odds got me interested in what you all consider the best underdog story of sports and what were the gambling odds if you can find them.?

Can be any sporting match, horse racing, etc.

the recent match between Ruiz and Joshua can be considered as the greatest underdog story, it's much better than the Douglas Tyson match because Tyson was counted out although he was struggling to get up, whereas on Ruiz and Joshua, Joshua is up but give up fighting, this means he can't fight Ruiz and cannot take his power.

[LTU_btc]

There are few underdog stories that stuck in my mind.
First is Greece winning Euro 2004 with their ugly defensive  football.
But I can't remember any story which would be more epic than Leicester winning EPL. It's one thing to win short tournament with just 5 matches. But winning long tournament of 38 matches is something different and unbeleavable. We can dig in the history and find small teams winning top leagues. But I can't compare their stories with Leicester because I haven't witnessed it.
And one underdog story which happened recently. It's St Louis Blues winning NHL. Just in January they were last team on the table and in the second part of the season they made an incredible run.

[Kasabus]

A few years ago when Leicester won the Premier League won the title at 5000:1 odds got me interested in what you all consider the best underdog story of sports and what were the gambling odds if you can find them.?

Can be any sporting match, horse racing, etc.

the recent match between Ruiz and Joshua can be considered as the greatest underdog story, it's much better than the Douglas Tyson match because Tyson was counted out although he was struggling to get up, whereas on Ruiz and Joshua, Joshua is up but give up fighting, this means he can't fight Ruiz and cannot take his power.

It something win with luck or that truly Ruiz is better than Joshua. It is just the same into other games/fight, but somehow only few underdog had survive. It is the mindset of a person to win even they/he/she felt underdog on this game just like it happen to Joshua and Ruiz fight, nobody could believe that it ended like that.

[emberbekas]

Still remember with South Korea at the 2002 World Cup? They were able to qualify into the semifinals after beating Italy in the round of 16 and Spain in the quarter-finals. Despite the many controversies at that time, but in my opinion South Korea is also included in the row of the most memorable underdog stories.