The fights that never were

[Beanz]

Not just classics. You can include personal grudges that never got sorted out in the ring Hatton / Witter and local/national fights that would have answered some ranking issues etc Barker / Macklin etc.


But first a few potential classics in which they never got as far as wrapping hands

Leonard/Pryor

Cotto/Hatton

Duran/Arguello

Morals/Marquez

Frazier/Norton

Eubank/Toney

There are so many more and many are worthy of a thread each. So you can pick a match up and discuss it or add you own. New posters or veterans, don't be afraid to suggest match ups that you think might have been one sided or not practical for other reasons, that you as a fan would have enjoyed none the less.

[Beanz]

De la Hoya/ Tszyu

[Dark Lord Al]

Beanz v Miles.

Lewis v Bowe.

Hearns v McCallum.

Jackson v Benn.

[Memphis]

Would have been good to see Naz at Super Bantam against Acero Sanchez, Zaragoza, Antonio Cermeno, Barrera. Barrera might just have been too much at any time but the others Naz would have wiped the floor with. Titles at Super Bantam were there for the taking and might have stopped Naz creeping onto my unfulfilled potential list.

[smashup]

Nigel Benn v Roy Jones was a massive fight that should have happened.

Froch v Calzaghe would have been another top fight too.

[Master]

Herol Graham v Benn/Watson/Eubank

Rod Douglas v Nigel Benn - bitter amateur rivals

Roy Jones v Dariusz Michalczewski for undisputed light heavyweight title

Bowe v Mercer

Tyson v Morrison

Hagler v Donald Curry

Barry McGuigan v Asumah Nelson

[ykdadamaja]

You guys covered it all, actually. lolol.... Nothing else to add here.

Maybe ah.... well.... Nah, nothing else to add.

[Spicoli]

Randall v Chavez III immediate after shady end to rematch
Carbajal v Finito
Tapia v Too Sharp Johnson
Dempsey v Wills
Toney v Hopkins
Duran v Arguello
Benn v Jones jr
Canizales v Jr Jones when it was ripe
Trinidad v Quartey

[Master]

You guys covered it all, actually. lolol.... Nothing else to add here.

Maybe ah.... well.... Nah, nothing else to add.

There are always some fights people want to see.

Barker v Murray v Macklin would have been good to see.

[Batman]

not in the same league as the fights mentioned but does anyone remember (in the pre AJ days) when the biggest domestic HW fight that we had to look forward to was Fury v Price?

didn't Fury once say that Bellew and Price were gay lovers, it was at the time that Price was hitting people like a train and Fury was uppercutting himself.

Found it



Interviewer - Calm down Tyson you live on Channel 5....go on then one more
Fury then goes on to call Bellew and Price gay lovers

[Mark TKO]

Benn Eubank III only one to add here

[Fenster]

Fans today think it's a modern thing that fighters swerve each other over rival promotional outfits and TV networks and whatnot.

But who remembers back in the late 90s when Britain had about half-a-dozen fringe world-class light-middles - Williams, Alexander, Farnell, Roberts, Stone, Tak, etc - who were all on SKY yet with different promoters and mickey mouse titles, so all claimed to be no.1 but never fought (some fights eventually happened too late). Mental.

I can still remember a Ringside show where Farnell got the raving with Alexander because he rated him about 5th best when asked to rank them. Hilarious. Farnell started offering him out and stuff.

[Manos de Piedra]

Toney vs Hopkins as mentioned earlier would've been awesome.

Toney vs Eubank and Benn had a lot of beef but never happened.

[sanatogen]

[Dark Lord Al]

Herol Graham v Benn/Watson/Eubank

Rod Douglas v Nigel Benn - bitter amateur rivals

Roy Jones v Dariusz Michalczewski for undisputed light heavyweight title

Bowe v Mercer

Tyson v Morrison

Hagler v Donald Curry

Barry McGuigan v Asumah Nelson

The best fight never to happen as far as I'm concerned.