Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
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Originally Posted by LeftHookToTheBody
Pryor-Leonard is my #1. Actually, Pryor vs. any of the eras top welterweights would stick out in my mind. I think Pryor has been slighted by history because the top guys from era shamefully ducked him. He mauled Hearns brutally in the '76 Golden Gloves Championship and Hearns wanted no part of him as a pro. There was talk after the second Arguello fight of a 'Boom Boom' Mancini-Pryor bout. That would have been a wild brawl not lasting more than 5 rounds.
Some other bouts that never were:
Hopkins-Toney at middleweight
Duran-Arguello at lightweight
Foreman-Shavers at heavyweight (can you imagine the skull bashing in this one?)
Marciano-Patterson at heavyweight
I never heard of any of the elite ducking Pryor except Leonard Hearns was natural Welterweight Pryor was natural Lightwelterweight and Pryor only ever fought above this weight in his comeback i believe if Pryor would of moved up im sure he would of got a piece of the big boys and Mancini vs Pryor fight didn't happen because Mancini got upset by Livingstone Bramble.
Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
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Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING
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Originally Posted by LeftHookToTheBody
Pryor-Leonard is my #1. Actually, Pryor vs. any of the eras top welterweights would stick out in my mind. I think Pryor has been slighted by history because the top guys from era shamefully ducked him. He mauled Hearns brutally in the '76 Golden Gloves Championship and Hearns wanted no part of him as a pro. There was talk after the second Arguello fight of a 'Boom Boom' Mancini-Pryor bout. That would have been a wild brawl not lasting more than 5 rounds.
Some other bouts that never were:
Hopkins-Toney at middleweight
Duran-Arguello at lightweight
Foreman-Shavers at heavyweight (can you imagine the skull bashing in this one?)
Marciano-Patterson at heavyweight
I never heard of any of the elite ducking Pryor except Leonard Hearns was natural Welterweight Pryor was natural Lightwelterweight and Pryor only ever fought above this weight in his comeback i believe if Pryor would of moved up im sure he would of got a piece of the big boys and Mancini vs Pryor fight didn't happen because Mancini got upset by Livingstone Bramble.
He was always calling out Leonard, Hearns et al and was prepared to move up from light welterweight to make a fight happen...they ignored him. Now, to be fair, a fight with Pryor pre-Arguello for any of them would have been a high risk-low reward type of affair because the networks bafflingly ignored Pryor despite his crowd pleasing style and volitale personality (that is, until the Arguello fight). So, that is certainly a big reason his challenges were ignored. Part of it was also of his own doing. I believe it was after the second Arguello fight that his party habits got particularly bad and he didn't really have any big fights after that. I knew the Bramble fight ruined a potential Pryor-Boom Boom fight, but it is still a fight I would love to have seen.
Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
tyson-foreman......unfortunitaly tyson was 2 scared
Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
jones- hopkins 2
tyson-jones(i woulda just love to see how it ould turn out ;D :jabbing: )
jones-calzaghe
hopkins-toney
tyson- foreman
jones-chris byrd
Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
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Originally Posted by SweetPea
Jones in his prime at 168 would have annihilated Joe Calzaghe. I don't think we really missed out by not getting to see that one.
The few that come to mind for me are:
If Hamed had hung around:
Hamed-Pacquiao
Hamed-Morales
And:
Trinidad-Mosley at 147 in 2000 (if Tito could have just hung at 147 for a little while longer)
Oscar-Quartey II
Whitaker-Norris at ~150 catchweight or 154
Mayweather-Tszyu
thought i was the only one who was going to say it,
mine are pretty much all in the lower classes
Morales-Larios at 130 (only after seeing Pacquiao-Larios)
Morales-Hamed at 126
Castillo-Freitas
McCall-Tyson always thought that this would have been decent
Rafa Marquez-Montiel at 115 (would have been better than Montiel-Gonzalez, although that wasn't that bad in the later rounds)
Trinidad-Norris at 154
Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
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Originally Posted by nonito (formerly eagle)
The criteria is that the fighters were at a similiar weight in the same time frame.
My 5 are
Kostya Tszyu v Shane Mosely 140 in 1999
Salvador Sanchez v Alexis Arguello 130 in 1981
Aaron Pryor v Sugar Ray Leonard 147 in 1980
Joe Calzaghe v Roy Jones 168 in 1997
Felix Trinidad v Shane Mosely 147 in 2000
There are so many more. Can u name a few?
You're on the money with this list Nonito! I would add Duran v Napoles at 147 say 1975 or Duran v Cervantes at 140 in 1975. As an Aussie connection Famechon v Rose 1969...wow!
Frazier v Liston 1969, Tszyu v De La Hoya 140 in 1996, Monzon v Hagler 160 1978
Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
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Originally Posted by nonito (formerly eagle)
The criteria is that the fighters were at a similiar weight in the same time frame.
My 5 are
Kostya Tszyu v Shane Mosely 140 in 1999
Salvador Sanchez v Alexis Arguello 130 in 1981
Aaron Pryor v Sugar Ray Leonard 147 in 1980
Joe Calzaghe v Roy Jones 168 in 1997
Felix Trinidad v Shane Mosely 147 in 2000
There are so many more. Can u name a few?
Nice List let me add some
Kostya Tszyu(Prime 140) vs Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Winky vs OScar de La Hoya( I know Oscar never fight him)
Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
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jones-chris byrd
Good call on that one, both in their prime.
Whoa!!
Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
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Originally Posted by CutMeMick
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jones-chris byrd
Good call on that one, both in their prime.
Whoa!!
Would be a borefest Byrd would be running scared of Jones power wouldn't be good fight at all.
Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
Lacy - Kessler in CA
Kessler offered Lacy the fight in the US for 1 million US $, but Lacy pussied out.
Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
Why do you wish that fight happend? Lacy is WAY overrated ::**
:D
Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
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Originally Posted by Jimboogie
Why do you wish that fight happend? Lacy is WAY overrated ::**
:D
At the time just to put an end to the stupid Lacymania :)
Re: 5 fights u wish had been made but never were?
PBF vs Pacman (present) if only Floyd was still hanging around the lightweight division! Floyds power was amazing at that weight so they'd be pretty evenly matched in that sense. I think Floyds other advantages would have been too much for Pacman but we'll never know :(
Eubank vs Mclellan
Hamed vs Floyd (Floyd called him out after Coralles..would have been interesting)
Cotto vs Tzsyu (2005..Tzsyu exposes Cotto)
Margarito vs Floyd (Just for everyone to STFU about margarita!)
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Originally Posted by Peter Plys 44
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Originally Posted by Jimboogie
Why do you wish that fight happend? Lacy is WAY overrated ::**
:D
At the time just to put an end to the stupid Lacymania :)
Whatcha gunna do brotha? whatcha gunna do when Lacymania runs wild on you?
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