Fights you would've loved to see, but never happenned

1. Foreman vs. Tyson: Tyson at his peak, but possessing the perfect style for a Foreman upset. Would this have looked like Foreman-Frazier? Intriguing.

2. Hagler-Hearns II: Could he outbox him?

3. Jones vs Tyson: Well, he talked about it enough. Perhaps Jones at his peak against a somewhat over the hill Tyson would've been interesting.

4. Chavez vs. McGirt: Buddy had the boxer-puncher skills to make a dangerous matchup, which is probably why it never happened. He probably would've been the smartest fighter Chavez ever fought, except for Whitaker. Wouldn't mind seeing Azumah Nelson or Simon Brown given a shot either. Chavez had so many potential great opponents, didn't fight or defeat enough of them, IMHO.

5. Foreman vs. Shavers: 2 hardest punchers ever. 'nuff said.

6. Frazier vs. Norton: Why not?

7. Whitaker vs. Taylor: In their prime. Defense vs. Speed. Whitaker never fought anyone significantly faster. Could he adjust?

8. SRL vs. Pryor: 2 greats.

9. Chavez vs. Whitaker II: Probably Whitaker would've won (yeah, i know) again, but the 2 best fighters of their generation should ve fought more than once.

10 Tooney vs. Tiberi: b/c he deserved one.

Marquez-Morales

Freddie Roach vs Manny Pacquiao

;D

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Originally Posted by Manju

1. Foreman vs. Tyson: Tyson at his peak, but possessing the perfect style for a Foreman upset. Would this have looked like Foreman-Frazier? Intriguing.

2. Hagler-Hearns II: Could he outbox him?

3. Jones vs Tyson: Well, he talked about it enough. Perhaps Jones at his peak against a somewhat over the hill Tyson would've been interesting.

4. Chavez vs. McGirt: Buddy had the boxer-puncher skills to make a dangerous matchup, which is probably why it never happened. He probably would've been the smartest fighter Chavez ever fought, except for Whitaker. Wouldn't mind seeing Azumah Nelson or Simon Brown given a shot either. Chavez had so many potential great opponents, didn't fight or defeat enough of them, IMHO.

5. Foreman vs. Shavers: 2 hardest punchers ever. 'nuff said.

6. Frazier vs. Norton: Why not?

7. Whitaker vs. Taylor: In their prime. Defense vs. Speed. Whitaker never fought anyone significantly faster. Could he adjust?

8. SRL vs. Pryor: 2 greats.

9. Chavez vs. Whitaker II: Probably Whitaker would've won (yeah, i know) again, but the 2 best fighters of their generation should ve fought more than once.

10 Tooney vs. Tiberi: b/c he deserved one.

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Puzzling list you have my friend, Taylor Vs Whitaker fighting would like you be fighting one of your family members, Tyson Vs Foreman WTF, Tyson VS Jones LOL, Mcgirt was not in the same league as Chavez, Whitaker dominated both but Chavez alway's had a punchers chance against Whitaker, Mcgirt was just brutally beaten. The other fights on the list were decent, here's my list


Trinidad Vs De La Hoya 2- I am sick of talking about what happened, it needed to happen and it did not, both fighters sound like politicians when talking about the rematch

Toney Vs Hopkins

Tyson Vs Holyfield ( In 1990)

Lewis Vs Bowe

Mayweather Vs Cotto

Trinidad Vs Quartey

Holmes Vs Foremann

Vargas Vs Reid

Kostya against any of Mosely, ODLH, Mayweather.
Trinidad v Mosely
Sanchez v Arguello
RJJ v Calzaghe

Ike Quartey-Felix Trinidad and Floyd Mayweather Jr-Joel Casamayor at 130
are the 2 main ones I wanted to see

Yuh Vs. Carbajal

Randall Vs. Chavez 3.......when it should have..As opposed to 10 years to late

P.C Williams Vs. M.Moorer

McCallum Vs. Leonard

Bowe Vs. Lewis

Moorer Vs. Mercer..............Something screamed slugfest here

Chandler Vs. Zamora

K.Galaxy Vs. Jiro Watanabe

Foreman Vs. Tyson early 90's

Mijares Vs. Montiel.....lets hope Etc/Etc

"Puzzling list you have my friend, Taylor Vs Whitaker fighting would like you be fighting one of your family members, Tyson Vs Foreman WTF, Tyson VS Jones LOL, Mcgirt was not in the same league as Chavez, Whitaker dominated both but Chavez alway's had a punchers chance against Whitaker, Mcgirt was just brutally beaten."

Well, allow me to explain:

Taylor/Whitaker: no one beat whitaker in is prime. But taylor had the spead. and they did have different styles. taylor fought aggressively, flat-footed even at times, and didn't go backwards much. speed is difficult to beat and i think that's the only thing, not power, that could've confused whitaker.

tyson/foreman: forman never went down during his 2nd coming. he was only outboxed, but that wasn't tyson's style. big george gave holyfield a hell of a fight but styles make fights. tyson reminds me of frazier, and he really couldn't fight going backwards

tyson/jones: yeah, probably ridiculous. but jones in his prime was like nothing boxing has ever seen. he needed a challenge.

chavez/mcgirt: mcgirt had a bum shoulder by the time he fought whitaker, and still gave him a decent match, at least the first time. he was such a smart fighter (remember the simon brown fight) and chavez, for all his greatness, needed the competition.

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Kostya against any of Mosely, ODLH, Mayweather.
Trinidad v Mosely
Sanchez v Arguello
RJJ v Calzaghe

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Makes sense that Sanchez should have to go through Eusebio Pedroza first, before moving up in weight to chase Arguello, given that Pedroza was WBA champ the entire time that Sanchez was WBC champ, and then some. If there was ever a unification bout that should have happened but didn't, that was it.

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1. Foreman vs. Tyson: Tyson at his peak, but possessing the perfect style for a Foreman upset. Would this have looked like Foreman-Frazier? Intriguing.

2. Hagler-Hearns II: Could he outbox him?

3. Jones vs Tyson: Well, he talked about it enough. Perhaps Jones at his peak against a somewhat over the hill Tyson would've been interesting.

4. Chavez vs. McGirt: Buddy had the boxer-puncher skills to make a dangerous matchup, which is probably why it never happened. He probably would've been the smartest fighter Chavez ever fought, except for Whitaker. Wouldn't mind seeing Azumah Nelson or Simon Brown given a shot either. Chavez had so many potential great opponents, didn't fight or defeat enough of them, IMHO.

5. Foreman vs. Shavers: 2 hardest punchers ever. 'nuff said.

6. Frazier vs. Norton: Why not?

7. Whitaker vs. Taylor: In their prime. Defense vs. Speed. Whitaker never fought anyone significantly faster. Could he adjust?

8. SRL vs. Pryor: 2 greats.

9. Chavez vs. Whitaker II: Probably Whitaker would've won (yeah, i know) again, but the 2 best fighters of their generation should ve fought more than once.

10 Tooney vs. Tiberi: b/c he deserved one.

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I like your Leonard/ Pryor & Foreman/ Shavers.

I always wanted to see Tua/ Tyson!

Mosley vs Mayweather

Mayweather v Cotto;D

Norris v ODH
McCallum v Eubanks
Toney v Watson
RJJ v Benn
Graham v Hagler
Galaxy v Canizales

Tyson v Bowe
Lewis v Bowe
Whitaker v JCC (II)
Bhop v RJJ (II)
Benn v J Jackson

...so many more

Arum King
Bowe Lewis
Moorer Hill
Tyson Moorer
Klitchko Klitchko
Canizales Canizales

Whitaker-Norris

Someone mentioned Quartey-Trinidad a few posts up. That would have been a great fight too.

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Puzzling list you have my friend, Taylor Vs Whitaker fighting would like you be fighting one of your family members, Tyson Vs Foreman WTF, Tyson VS Jones LOL, Mcgirt was not in the same league as Chavez, Whitaker dominated both but Chavez alway's had a punchers chance against Whitaker, Mcgirt was just brutally beaten. The other fights on the list were decent, here's my list


Trinidad Vs De La Hoya 2- I am sick of talking about what happened, it needed to happen and it did not, both fighters sound like politicians when talking about the rematch

Toney Vs Hopkins

Tyson Vs Holyfield ( In 1990)

Lewis Vs Bowe

Mayweather Vs Cotto

Trinidad Vs Quartey

Holmes Vs Foremann

Vargas Vs Reid

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McGirt was not badly beaten by Whitaker he actually gave Whitaker all he could handle in there 1st meeting, and in there rematch he even managed to floor Whitaker with a right hand on the top of the head, and even though there 2nd fight was more one sided he still gave Whitaker problems in the first 6 rounds.

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McGirt was not badly beaten by Whitaker he actually gave Whitaker all he could handle in there 1st meeting, and in there rematch he even managed to floor Whitaker with a right hand on the top of the head, and even though there 2nd fight was more one sided he still gave Whitaker problems in the first 6 rounds.

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Ya, the first Whitaker-McGirt fight was really the only close fight that Whitaker had in his prime. McGirt won a legit 5 rounds or so in that fight.

Now, I'm not saying that McGirt was as good of a fighter as Chavez, because he wasn't, but he did give Whitaker a tough fight.

Carlos Monzon vs Marvin Hagler
Sugar Ray Leonard vs Aaron Pryor
Pernell Whitaker vs Terry Norris
Julian Jackson vs Nigel Benn
Roy Jones Jr vs Gerald McClellan
Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Joel Casamayor
Herol Graham vs Chris Eubank
Earnie Shavers vs George Foreman
Ken Norton vs Joe Frazier
Sugar Ray Robinson vs Charles Burley
Lennox Lewis vs Riddick Bowe
Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield 1992
Rocky Marciano vs Floyd Patterson
Salvador Sanchez vs Wilfredo Gomez 2
Shane Mosley vs Felix Trinidad
Ricardo Lopez vs Michael Carbajal

Ike Ibeabuchi vs:

Lennox Lewis
Evander Holyfield
Mike Tyson

Tyson vs. Tua
Lewis vs. Bowe
McCall vs. Holyfield
RJJ vs. Calzaghe
Lacy vs. Taylor (may still happen)
Toney vs. Jones 2 (at Cruiser catch weight)
Hopkins vs. Jones 2 (5 years ago)
Mayweather vs. Mosley (at 135)
Paul Williams vs. Ronald Hearns (at 154)
Foreman vs. Klitschko

hopkins - toney
hopkins - jones 2
trinidad - de la hoya rematch
lewis - tyson in prime



think of more later

Here's some I posted in another similar thread.

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Heres a few fights that could have happened cause they were both champions in the same time frame.

Salvador Sanchez vs. Eusebio Pedroza - This fight could have happened any time from 1980 to 1982 (Both held titles)
Carlos Ortiz vs. Mado Ramos - Don't know why they never fought they both fought the same opposition but never eachother
Jorge Castro vs. Julian Jackson - Both Middlweight champs what a thriller of a fight I think they would have put on
Terry Norris vs. Winky Wright - Makes you think doesn't it..... ;)
PBF vs. 'Popo' Freitas - 99/00 the fight was being worked on 'Popo' had already began training for the fight and PBF opted out and fought some other guy.

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Trinidad v DLH II
Hatton V Witter

RJJ V Michelezki

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RJJ V Michalczewski

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Fixed it for you. :)

Heavyweight
Evander Holyfield - Donovan 'Razor' Rudduck
Tommy Morrison - Michael Moorer
'Razor' Rudduck - Michael Moorer
Tommy Morrison - Evander Holyfield
'Razor' Rudduck - Andrew Golota
Tommy Morrison - Mike Tyson
Vitali Klitschko - Lennox Lewis II
Riddick Bowe - Mike Tyson
Andrew Golota - Michael Moorer
Andrew Golota - Tommy Morrison
Riddick Bowe - Michael Moorer
George Foreman - Larry Holmes
George Foreman - Earnie Shavers
Rocky Marciano - Floyd Patterson
Rocky Marciano - Ingemar Johanssen
Wladimir Klitschko - Corrie Sanders II
Wladimir Klitschko - Sam Peter II
Wladimir Klitschko - David Haye
Cris Arreola - David Haye
Joe Mesi - Domonick Guinn (before Mesi got injured and Guinn became a loser)
Joe Frazier - Ken Norton

Light Heavyweight/Super Middleweight
Roy Jones Jr. - Chris Eubank
Roy Jones Jr. - Daruisz Michalzweski
Roy Jones Jr. - Joe Calzaghe
Roy Jones Jr. - Nigel Benn
Bernard Hopkins - James Toney
Roy Jones Jr. - Kelly Pavlik
Bernard Hopkins - Kelly Pavlik
Bernard Hopkins - Nigel Benn
Bernard Hopkins - Svenn Ottke
Roy Jones Jr. - Svenn Ottke
James Toney - Chris Eubank
James Toney - Nigel Benn
Roy Jones Jr. - Steve Collins

Middleweight/Jr. Middleweight
Oscar De la Hoya - Shane Mosley III
Oscar De la Hoya - Felix Trinidad II
Felix Trinidad - Shane Mosley
Felix Trinidad - Vernon Forrest
Fernando Vargas - Vernon Forrest
Shane Mosley - Cory Spinks

Welterweight/Jr. Welterweight
Miguel Cotto - Ricky Hatton
Miguel Cotto - Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Ricky Hatton - Zab Judah
Roberto Duran - Aaron Pryor
Ray Leonard - Aaron Pryor

Lightweight/Super Featherweight
Julio Cesar Chavez - Salvador Sanchez
Alexis Arguello - Julio Cesar Chavez
Alexis Arguello - Salvador Sanchez
Roberto Duran - Alexis Arguello

Monzon V Hagler
Napoles V Duran
Cervantes V Duran
Sanchez V Gomez 2
Sanchez V Nelson 2
Ali V Foreman 2
Holmes V Foreman
Hamed v Morales
Mayweather V Tszyu
DLH V Tszyu
Trinidad V Quartey
SRL V Pryor
Camacho V Rosario 2
SRL V Hearns 3
Bowe V Lewis
Olivares V Jofre
Olivares V Saldivar
DLH V Trinidad 2
Jones jr V Hopkins 2

Trinidad-Quartey was a good one!

How about Chandler-Pintor, Arguello-O'Grady(ok maybe a mismatch), Holyfield-Spinks(not Leon;D), Foreman-Tyson,
Ibeabuchi-McCall(Maybe the officials could have been men in white coats)

JAMES TONEY vs. CHRIS EUBANK!

and

JAMES TONEY vs. NIGEL BENN!

Would have loved it.

And to the person who said Trinidad Quartey, that fight is actually possible

Joe Galzaghe v Steve Collins

Klitchko-lewis 2

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Ya, the first Whitaker-McGirt fight was really the only close fight that Whitaker had in his prime. McGirt won a legit 5 rounds or so in that fight.

Now, I'm not saying that McGirt was as good of a fighter as Chavez, because he wasn't, but he did give Whitaker a tough fight.

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Good call. Been a while but I scored that on 115-114 for Mcgirt.Maybe the excessive clowning swayed me Lol.Consider how close it was and Buddy was also fighting with a torn up Rotator cuff ??

Would have absolutely loved it if RJJ and Gerald McClellan fought each other, it would have been a great fight, i reckon McClellan would have KOd RJJ within 6 rounds!

Such a shame what happened to him though

benn - mccellan 2

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benn - mccellan 2

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:confused: Thats pretty morbid.

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Good call. Been a while but I scored that on 115-114 for Mcgirt.Maybe the excessive clowning swayed me Lol.Consider how close it was and Buddy was also fighting with a torn up Rotator cuff ??

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Yea but McGirt had no injuries in the rematch and Whitaker won the rematch pretty handily.

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JAMES TONEY vs. CHRIS EUBANK!

and

JAMES TONEY vs. NIGEL BENN!

Would have loved it.

And to the person who said Trinidad Quartey, that fight is actually possible

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I think Toney would have gave Benn a bit of a boxing lesson IMO, as for Eubank vs Toney i don't see that being a good fight really and truthfully. I see Toney winning a tough but clear cut UD, in a fight that doesn't really get going.

Depends on which Toney turns up if it was the one that faced Tiberia or Jones then he looses to the Eubanks version that beat Watson.

not read the thread so some of these may have been mentioned already

this thread crops up every few months and I always like to reply to it as my thoughts change

in no particular order :

benn eubank III

benn v Jones

benn v Collins (two years before it actually did happen)

lewis v bowe

ali v foreman II

Yes all have been mentioned. Read the threads lazy.;)

Morales v Barrera 4

lewis v bowe
lewis v moorer
breland v honeyghan (1986 version of honeyghan)
mccallum v hearns/hagler/leonard
holmes v foreman
benn v watson II
eubank v toney
benn v toney
nelson v deleon II (only jokin)
holyfield v tyson (91)
foreman v ruddock (around 1990)
sibson v graham
moorer v prince charles williams
hearns v hagler II in 1986
leonard v curry
hagler v graham (just for the curiosity of what might have happened, I would have given the elusive graham a good shot in 86)
pedroza v sanchez
mcguigan v nelson
fenech v galaxy