Fights I want to see over the next year

[Rantcatrat]

Some of these are already in the works and others are of my own creation. Basically, it's just a list of the top guys in the division fighting each other. Call me cynical, but I doubt many actually occur. How many do you think come to fruition?

H. Marquez v. B. Viloria
Froch v. Bute
Ward v. Andre Dirrell
Bika v. Stevenson
Bika v. Andre Dirrell
Adamek v. Chambers
Mitchell v. Arreola
Donaire, Rigondeaux, Mares, Moreno, Nishioka. Some mix mash of those guys fighting
Geale v. Pirog
Martinez v. Junior
Winner of Geale/Pirog against winner of Martinez/Junior
Canelo v. Kirkland
Canelo v. Martirosyan
Trout v. Rodriguez
Cloud v. Pascal
Sturm v. Golovkin
Bailey v. Jones
Alexander v. Brooks
Matthysse v. Soto
Ricky Burns v. Kevin Mitchell
Barker, Murray, Macklin mix mash
Huck v. Afolabi
Lebedev v. Wlodarczyk
Lebedev v. Tarver/Kayode winner
Salido v. John
Heck, John versus anyone competitive
Caballero v. Garcia
Alvarado, Rios, Maidana mix mash
Sillakh v. Campillo
Bogare v. Lundy
Uchiyama v. Juan Carlos Burgos
Groves v. Stieglitz
Oosthuizen v. Groves

I'm sure I missed a bunch of good match-ups. Feel free to add. I'm going to look this up in a year's time and see if any took place.

[Mars_ax]

Damn Rant, and I thought I was a Hardcore boxing fan, you got me beat bro.

A few of mine that come to mine:

Normally I would have said JMM vs Rios, but I've lost any interest I had in Brandon Rios after his unprofessional issues with his weight, and horrible performance and gift he got from the judges in the Abril fight. It's one thing to trash talk and/or talk shit, but you just look like a fucking clown if you don't back it up. Rios went from great prospect/next big thing to clown all in one weekend, fuck him.

Of course the 2 biggest fights of the year have to be:

Cotto vs Floyd and Pac vs. Bradley

I'll try to add some more later.

cheers Rant

[p4pking]

Yes great list Rant, all of those fights would be nice. I'll try and add a few, if I repeat any I didn't mean to:

-Mayweather vs. Martinez
-JMM vs Amir Khan
- Anselmo Moreno vs Abner Mares
- Sergio Martinez vs Erislandy Lara
- " Martinez vs Peter Quillin(IF he really does a number on Wright)
- Abnes Mares vs Anselmo Moreno\
-Gamboa vs Rios
- Brandon Rios vs Manny Pacquiao(just for my own entertainment)
- Lucian Bute vs Jean Pascal
- JCC Jr vs Arthur Abraham or Peter Quillin etc.

[CutMeMick]

I havent been following it religiously like before so bare with me...

Palacios vs. Yaegashi
Montes vs. Lopez
Moreno vs. Kameda
Donaire vs. Nishioka
Gamboa vs. Broner
DeMarco vs. Burns
JMM vs. Guerrero
Ortiz vs. Brook
Demitrus vs. Vanes
Quillin vs. Lee
Steiglitz vs. Pavlik

[Galaxy]

Nice list

We're already getting Ioka/ Yaegashi, but I'd love to see the winner face Joyi before the years end. Sadly I think Ioka will move up after defeating Yaegashi

Huck vs Hernandez

I like the Ward/ Andre Dirrell fight

Abril/ DeMarco

Uchiyama/ Broner

Marquez/ Viloria

[TigerFan]

Sorry if I repeated any fights...I tried to list some that were not listed

From Heavy to Bantam

Povetkin vs a Klitschko brother

Adamek vs Chisora

Fury vs Wach

Price vs T Walker

YPH vs Huck/Afolabi winner

Cleverly vs Sukhotsky

Shumenov vs Chilemba

Cloud vs Sillakh

Abraham vs Pavlik - Even though it's about 3-4 years too late I'd still like to see it.

Balzsay vs Magee - They have to fight before June 30. Good under the radar type of fight...should be entertaining.

Stevenson vs Bika or a Dirrell brother

G Johnson vs Bika - Could be a war

Rodriguez vs DeGale/Groves or Oosthuzien

Mora vs Manfredo 3 - Does POB still post here? I read this was in talks for Providence RI. I could care less about seeing it though

Golovkin vs a top 10 guy

Quillin vs Pirog/Geale winner

Molina vs Bundrage - Carlos deserves a title shot with all the times he's been f*cked..don't see it happening though

Lara vs Kirkland or Trout

Dzinziruk vs a tune up fight - He'll need one if he's gonna fight Trout

Martirosyan vs a top 10 guy

Brook vs a Jones - There's been talk of him fighting Mike & Carson for a while now. Let's see it happen.

Senchenko/Malignaggi winner vs a top 10 guy

Bundu vs Zaveck

Alvarado vs Rios - Don't blink....this one would be a war.

Olusegun vs Garcia - I believe this one is next.

Judah vs Peterson - For some strange reason I think Zab would have a shot against Lamont but next to zero chance against Khan in a rematch.

Provodnikov vs Maidana - This has slugfest written all over it.

M Vazquez vs Antonio DeMarco

Lundy vs Burns

Uchiyama vs Broner/Gamboa

John vs a top 10 guy...hell make it a top 5 guy

Donaire vs Mares

Arce vs Kameda

[Rantcatrat]

Yes great list Rant, all of those fights would be nice. I'll try and add a few, if I repeat any I didn't mean to:

-Mayweather vs. Martinez
-JMM vs Amir Khan
- Anselmo Moreno vs Abner Mares
- Sergio Martinez vs Erislandy Lara
- " Martinez vs Peter Quillin(IF he really does a number on Wright)
- Abnes Mares vs Anselmo Moreno\
-Gamboa vs Rios
- Brandon Rios vs Manny Pacquiao(just for my own entertainment)
- Lucian Bute vs Jean Pascal
- JCC Jr vs Arthur Abraham or Peter Quillin etc.

Good picks, especially the ones in bold.

I'll throw a curve ball atcha: how about Erislandy Lara v. Peter Quillin for Cuban supremacy at middleweight?

[Rantcatrat]

I havent been following it religiously like before so bare with me...

Palacios vs. Yaegashi
Montes vs. Lopez
Moreno vs. Kameda
Donaire vs. Nishioka
Gamboa vs. Broner
DeMarco vs. Burns
JMM vs. Guerrero
Ortiz vs. Brook
Demitrus vs. Vanes
Quillin vs. Lee
Steiglitz vs. Pavlik

Those are all good too. Gamboa v. Broner is a great fight and it makes a lot of sense since Gamboa is a featherweight moving up and the junior lightweight division is pretty slim these days. Unfortunately, I doubt JMM ever faces Guerrero. Guerrero will beat Selcik Aydin this summer and then defend his title. By the time, a fight could realistically happen, Marquez will have faced Pacquiao and retired. As to Pavlik and Stieglitz, it's a good idea. I sort of get the idea that Pavlik is gunning for the big money fights. Maybe a win over Stieglitz is a way to line up a unification fight with Bute/Froch winner?

[Rantcatrat]

Nice list

We're already getting Ioka/ Yaegashi, but I'd love to see the winner face Joyi before the years end. Sadly I think Ioka will move up after defeating Yaegashi

Huck vs Hernandez

I like the Ward/ Andre Dirrell fight

Abril/ DeMarco

Uchiyama/ Broner

Marquez/ Viloria

Can't believe I forgot about Hernandez v. Huck for unification at cruiserweight. Good pick. Abril v. Demarco is a good fight too. I favor Abril.

[Rantcatrat]

Sorry if I repeated any fights...I tried to list some that were not listed

From Heavy to Bantam

Povetkin vs a Klitschko brother

Adamek vs Chisora

Fury vs Wach

Price vs T Walker

YPH vs Huck/Afolabi winner

Cleverly vs Sukhotsky

Shumenov vs Chilemba

Cloud vs Sillakh

Abraham vs Pavlik - Even though it's about 3-4 years too late I'd still like to see it.

Balzsay vs Magee - They have to fight before June 30. Good under the radar type of fight...should be entertaining.

Stevenson vs Bika or a Dirrell brother

G Johnson vs Bika - Could be a war

Rodriguez vs DeGale/Groves or Oosthuzien

Mora vs Manfredo 3 - Does POB still post here? I read this was in talks for Providence RI. I could care less about seeing it though

Golovkin vs a top 10 guy

Quillin vs Pirog/Geale winner

Molina vs Bundrage - Carlos deserves a title shot with all the times he's been f*cked..don't see it happening though

Lara vs Kirkland or Trout

Dzinziruk vs a tune up fight - He'll need one if he's gonna fight Trout

Martirosyan vs a top 10 guy

Brook vs a Jones - There's been talk of him fighting Mike & Carson for a while now. Let's see it happen.

Senchenko/Malignaggi winner vs a top 10 guy

Bundu vs Zaveck

Alvarado vs Rios - Don't blink....this one would be a war.

Olusegun vs Garcia - I believe this one is next.

Judah vs Peterson - For some strange reason I think Zab would have a shot against Lamont but next to zero chance against Khan in a rematch.

Provodnikov vs Maidana - This has slugfest written all over it.

M Vazquez vs Antonio DeMarco

Lundy vs Burns

Uchiyama vs Broner/Gamboa

John vs a top 10 guy...hell make it a top 5 guy

Donaire vs Mares

Arce vs Kameda

Great picks, Tiger. I like Glen Johnson versus Sakio Bika, Balzsay versus Magee, Fury v. Price is something I forgot about, but throw Wach and Towers too. For some reason, I recall reading somewhere Mora was slated to face Golovkin although I also read about the Manfredo fight. Abraham v. Pavlik still needs to happen. Frankly, it's a great undercard fight for Pacquiao at some point. Stieglitz v. Abraham isn't bad too for a big German card.

[Rantcatrat]

The truth is I doubt a lot of these fights get made. I hope I'm wrong.

[Galaxy]

The truth is I doubt a lot of these fights get made. I hope I'm wrong.

Your probably right, but lets hope we get a few fights that are close to the level of some of these, which I think is realistic

[captainanddew]

Wladimir Klitschko vs Vitali Klitschko

[Galaxy]

The truth is I doubt a lot of these fights get made. I hope I'm wrong.

Your probably right, but lets hope we get a few fights that are close to the level of some of these, which I think is realistic

For example:

Caballero/ Garcia looks like its on the way, great fight imo
Adamek/ Chambers might be fun
Cloud/ Pascal is all but done
Pirog & Geale still looks at possibility
Trout/ Rodriguez
Guerrero/ Aydin
Matthysse/ Soto
Gonzalez/ Rojas
Ioka/ Yaegashi

Off the top off my head, leaving out many of the bigger fights

[El Kabong]

One of the American heavyweights (Mitchell, Hanks, Wilder) vs a live body
Martinez vs Lee (after Lee KO's JC Jr )
Quillen vs Golovkin
Abraham vs Pavlik
Cloud vs Pascal
Cloud vs the Dawson-Hopkins II winner
Sillahk vs the Dawson-Hopkins II winner
Kell Brook vs the winner of Ortiz-Berto II
BranDUMB Rios vs the winner of Peterson-Khan II
Zab Judah vs Rios
JMM vs Rios
JMM vs Judah (would have been a hell of a match years ago)