Fights I want to see over the next year

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 :-X

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

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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.

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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?

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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

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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?

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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

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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.

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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 :-X

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

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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.

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

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

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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

Wladimir Klitschko vs Vitali Klitschko

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

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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

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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

One of the American heavyweights (Mitchell, Hanks, Wilder) vs a live body
Martinez vs Lee (after Lee KO's JC Jr ;D )
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)

Tarver vs Vlad I just wanna see 1 of them knocked out.
Lara vs Martirosyan
Ward vs Bute winner vs Dirrell
Pavlik vs Johnson
Chavez vs Martinez
Brook vs Khan winner vs Mayweather in England
Williams vs Kirkland
Angulo vs Canelo
Maidana vs Rios
D. Alexander vs M Jones
Judah vs Peterson
John vs Gamboa

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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

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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

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Cheers Galaxy, I barely knew any of those were even in talks. Cloud-Pascal is a really good matchup, as pedestrian as Cloud looked for most of the Campillo fight he'll be a very live body in this one imo. Pascal has a really iffy workrate and can be hurt, he also has major lapses in concentration and tends to get kind of jumpy, seems he lunges in and leaves himself wide open half the time when he decides to throw. I could see Cloud taking advantage of that, Pascal isn't likely to have him on a leash as Campillo did persay. My head still says Pascal wins in style and all but he could get hurt at any point and had better try and be consistent. Good fight.

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One of the American heavyweights (Mitchell, Hanks, Wilder) vs a live body
Martinez vs Lee (after Lee KO's JC Jr ;D )
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)

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No Cloud vs Campillo 2!?

In fairness, had the decision gone the right way would anyone want to see a rematch? It wasn't even all to competitive aside from the early knockdowns, Id rather see Campillo get a chance to fight Shumenov again or say Pascal or Erdei, although he probably won't get the chance. Someone needs to take Nathan Cleverly's little trinket as well, any of these guys would beat him.

Nah your right I probably wouldn't want to see a rematch had Campillo won. I would just like to see Campillo get the chance to right the wrong

Another go with Shumenov to do the same would be nice

Campillo deserves a shot at another top guy

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No Cloud vs Campillo 2!?

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OK so Cloud looks past Campillo and you guys make a huge deal about it. Cloud has been dodged for YEARS by the top 175 fighters. Dawson, Hopkins, Pascal, etc have just refused to fight Cloud and its not because Cloud would be easy to outbox.

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Nah your right I probably wouldn't want to see a rematch had Campillo won. I would just like to see Campillo get the chance to right the wrong

Another go with Shumenov to do the same would be nice

Campillo deserves a shot at another top guy

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What Campillo deserved in the first place was an overturned decision and a non-corrupted fight.

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OK so Cloud looks past Campillo and you guys make a huge deal about it. Cloud has been dodged for YEARS by the top 175 fighters. Dawson, Hopkins, Pascal, etc have just refused to fight Cloud and its not because Cloud would be easy to outbox.

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Lyle, come on man, the reason Cloud lost isn't because he looked past Campillo. He lost because Campillo adjusted to his style after being knocked down twice in the first round. Maybe he avoided him in the past, but Pascal jumped at the chance to fight him after witnessing him lose against Campillo. Wack part of it is that Cloud is getting that pay day and the winner, Campillo, isn't. Cloud has a shot at redemption in that fight. Let's see if he can get it done. I'm looking forward to it.

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OK so Cloud looks past Campillo and you guys make a huge deal about it. Cloud has been dodged for YEARS by the top 175 fighters. Dawson, Hopkins, Pascal, etc have just refused to fight Cloud and its not because Cloud would be easy to outbox.

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Lyle, come on man, the reason Cloud lost isn't because he looked past Campillo. He lost because Campillo adjusted to his style after being knocked down twice in the first round. Maybe he avoided him in the past, but Pascal jumped at the chance to fight him after witnessing him lose against Campillo. Wack part of it is that Cloud is getting that pay day and the winner, Campillo, isn't. Cloud has a shot at redemption in that fight. Let's see if he can get it done. I'm looking forward to it.

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Cloud will manhandle Pascal!

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No Cloud vs Campillo 2!?

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OK so Cloud looks past Campillo and you guys make a huge deal about it. Cloud has been dodged for YEARS by the top 175 fighters. Dawson, Hopkins, Pascal, etc have just refused to fight Cloud and its not because Cloud would be easy to outbox.

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Lyle, come on man, the reason Cloud lost isn't because he looked past Campillo. He lost because Campillo adjusted to his style after being knocked down twice in the first round. Maybe he avoided him in the past, but Pascal jumped at the chance to fight him after witnessing him lose against Campillo. Wack part of it is that Cloud is getting that pay day and the winner, Campillo, isn't. Cloud has a shot at redemption in that fight. Let's see if he can get it done. I'm looking forward to it.

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Cloud will manhandle Pascal!

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I seem to remember you saying the same thing about Campillo...

At least he's got the Pascal fight coming up, really looking foreward to that one!

I'm excited about that fight as well, only that Campillo would still be a better opponent for Pascal and just as pleasing a clash of styles. I do expect to see Pascal in a bit of trouble early but he should pull away and beat Cloud up down the stretch. Tavoris is going to be another Jeff Lacy imo, there is no way he is around long at the top level way to one paced and slow.

Haye vs chisorsa
Haye vs Vladimir klitchko
Tyson fury vs vitali klitchko

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I'm excited about that fight as well, only that Campillo would still be a better opponent for Pascal and just as pleasing a clash of styles. I do expect to see Pascal in a bit of trouble early but he should pull away and beat Cloud up down the stretch. Tavoris is going to be another Jeff Lacy imo, there is no way he is around long at the top level way to one paced and slow.

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I have nothing but love for Tavoris Cloud but at 30 years old given his size & fighting style I'll say he needs the big fights NOW. Unless Cloud can adopt a style similar to what Glen Johnson has then eventually Cloud will be out moved & out hustled and he may look closer to Jeff Lacy. That being said I think he has the power and skill to stop Pascal and Dawson it's just a matter of when he fights them.

Ismayl Sillakh is the future at 175 and I think he has the best style to fight any of the top guys out there right now. I do question his chin a bit, but with his style I think he'll be hard to catch clean.

If Cloud fought Sillakh right now I would probably have Sillakh winning

Degale v Groves (not PPV)
Fury v Price
Fury v Chisora 2
Froch v Kessler
Macklin v Barker v Murray
Ward v Bute

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I'm excited about that fight as well, only that Campillo would still be a better opponent for Pascal and just as pleasing a clash of styles. I do expect to see Pascal in a bit of trouble early but he should pull away and beat Cloud up down the stretch. Tavoris is going to be another Jeff Lacy imo, there is no way he is around long at the top level way to one paced and slow.

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I have nothing but love for Tavoris Cloud but at 30 years old given his size & fighting style I'll say he needs the big fights NOW. Unless Cloud can adopt a style similar to what Glen Johnson has then eventually Cloud will be out moved & out hustled and he may look closer to Jeff Lacy. That being said I think he has the power and skill to stop Pascal and Dawson it's just a matter of when he fights them.

Ismayl Sillakh is the future at 175 and I think he has the best style to fight any of the top guys out there right now. I do question his chin a bit, but with his style I think he'll be hard to catch clean.

If Cloud fought Sillakh right now I would probably have Sillakh winning

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I,ve been impressed with Sillakh too, but the recent inactivity has been concerning...

Good to see him back this week, I doubt he has much trouble with 11-0 Grachev

I wouldn't mind seeing Tarver-Cunningham.

I hear they have a twitter beef...

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PHILADELPHIA(April 25, 2012)—After many months of disregarding and downplaying a potential bout with former two-time International Federation (IBF) Cruiserweight champion Steve “USS” Cunningham, former Light Heavyweight world champion Antonio Tarver has finally stepped up to the plate, well sort of.

For the past several months, Cunningham & Tarver have been going back in forth on twitter but whenever the prospect of a fight gets brought up, Tarver has had one excuse after another and then Tarver took a June 2nd fight with little known Lateef Kayode.

Well finally Tarver, has acknowledged that a fight with Cunningham would be a meaningful one and has said a fight with Cunningham could happen if Cunningham could get support of the fans to tune in by garnering 20,000 twitter followers.

Team Cunningham decided to step up to the challenge and has launched a twitter campaign titled, "Can Twitter Make A Fight?- @USSvsMagicMan". This social media experiment will see if twitter is a powerful enough tool to get this fight made with the support of 20,000 boxing fans. The team acknowledges that this is a tall order given the lack of attention the cruiserweight division gets in the states, but they feel that if fans want to see a good fight, this should not matter.

When asked about the prospect of this fight happening, Cunningham said, "This is a fight I have wanted for the longest and Tarver has made up many excuses to not make it happen. I was honestly ready to move on from the idea, but he made the challenge and me and my team are crazy enough to call him on it. Following @USSvsMagicMan is not about being a fan of mine or Tarver's it's about being a fan of boxing and wanting to see a good fight and taking action to get it made".

Boxing fans are now asked to simply follow @USSvsMagicMan and when the number soars to the magic number of 20,000 then this important fight can and will happen.

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Haye vs chisorsa
Haye vs Vladimir klitchko
Tyson fury vs vitali klitchko

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Why in gods name would you want to see a rematch with Haye and Wlad? The first fight was awful.