The fights that never were
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.
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Beanz v Miles.
Lewis v Bowe.
Hearns v McCallum.
Jackson v Benn.
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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.
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Nigel Benn v Roy Jones was a massive fight that should have happened.
Froch v Calzaghe would have been another top fight too.
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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
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You guys covered it all, actually. lolol.... Nothing else to add here.
Maybe ah.... well.... Nah, nothing else to add.
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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
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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.
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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNYLvd-QUrQ
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 ;D;D
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Benn Eubank III only one to add here
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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. :D
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Toney vs Hopkins as mentioned earlier would've been awesome.
Toney vs Eubank and Benn had a lot of beef but never happened.
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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.
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Why was the Trinidad vs Mosely fight never a "thing"? I would have thought that early and late stages this would have happened.
If Tito fought Vargas he could have fought Mosely at 154... or even when Mosely went to 154 Tito could have fought him when Mosely fought Vargas and/or Mayorga BOTH times.
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ykdadamaja
Why was the Trinidad vs Mosely fight never a "thing"? I would have thought that early and late stages this would have happened.
If Tito fought Vargas he could have fought Mosely at 154... or even when Mosely went to 154 Tito could have fought him when Mosely fought Vargas and/or Mayorga BOTH times.
I think Tito took other big fights at middleweight rather than stay at the weight he started to dominate.
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ykdadamaja
Why was the Trinidad vs Mosely fight never a "thing"? I would have thought that early and late stages this would have happened.
If Tito fought Vargas he could have fought Mosely at 154... or even when Mosely went to 154 Tito could have fought him when Mosely fought Vargas and/or Mayorga BOTH times.
I think Tito took other big fights at middleweight rather than stay at the weight he started to dominate.
The lure of moving up in weight and conquering other weight divisions... like most great fighters. Started off middleweight with a bang... but then ran into one of the great middleweights of all time.
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Sweat Pea v Ike Quartey would have been nice to see.
Would Pernell Whitaker ever have fought Meldrick Taylor?
Tyson v (motivated) Witherspoon or Dokes
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ykdadamaja
Why was the Trinidad vs Mosely fight never a "thing"? I would have thought that early and late stages this would have happened.
If Tito fought Vargas he could have fought Mosely at 154... or even when Mosely went to 154 Tito could have fought him when Mosely fought Vargas and/or Mayorga BOTH times.
I recall boxing magazines at the time saying Tito was beating a path towards Roy Jones.
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sanatogen
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ykdadamaja
Why was the Trinidad vs Mosely fight never a "thing"? I would have thought that early and late stages this would have happened.
If Tito fought Vargas he could have fought Mosely at 154... or even when Mosely went to 154 Tito could have fought him when Mosely fought Vargas and/or Mayorga BOTH times.
I recall boxing magazines at the time saying Tito was beating a path towards Roy Jones.
If Tito did beat Hopkins and Jones he would have been the greatest ever.
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A dozen that never happened.
Monzon V Hagler
Foreman v Holmes
Duran v Pryor
Leonard V Pryor
Sanchez V Nelson 2
Sanchez v Chavez
Chavez V Nelson
Morales V Hamed
Trinidad v Mosley
De la Hoya V Trinidad 2
Mayweather jr V Tszyu
Mayweather jr v Pacquiao (2010)
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Sweat Pea v Ike Quartey would have been nice to see.
Would Pernell Whitaker ever have fought Meldrick Taylor?
Tyson v (motivated) Witherspoon or Dokes
Too much of a kinship with Whitaker and Taylor coming out of the 84' Olympics as team mates and staying that way for a while. Witherspoon may have got Tyson if he didn't lose his trinket to Bonecrusher. After that he was busy stewing over and suing Don King who was never fond of. I think Tim even said he 'threw' the fight to Smith just to get away from King :cwm13:
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Sweat Pea v Ike Quartey would have been nice to see.
Would Pernell Whitaker ever have fought Meldrick Taylor?
Tyson v (motivated) Witherspoon or Dokes
Too much of a kinship with Whitaker and Taylor coming out of the 84' Olympics as team mates and staying that way for a while. Witherspoon may have got Tyson if he didn't lose his trinket to Bonecrusher. After that he was busy stewing over and suing Don King who was never fond of. I think Tim even said he 'threw' the fight to Smith just to get away from King :cwm13:
Yes and I believe Tim because he got blasted by Bonecrusher in one.
Tyson would have had a good competitive fight against Tim before being KO'd.
