Fights that coulda, shoulda but didn't.

[IamInuit]

Bit of a twist on @smashup s thread.


Burley/Robinson @160
Duran/Arguello @135
Chandler/Pintor@118
Sanchez/Arguello @130
Arbachakov/2 sharp @112
Pedroza/Sanchez @126
Toney/Jackson @160
The entire Murders row member’s vs any champ of their day.
Oscar/Zu @140
Adamek/Haye@200
Jones/Benn@168
Quartey/Trinidad @147
Norris/Trinidad@154 or Hearns/McCallum
Hill/Williams@175
Lewis/Bowe@hev

Sadly all of them could have actually been made along with plenty of others.

[Vendettos]

Tyson vs A Southpaw
Golata vs 1 of the k2

[Dark Lord Al]

Bowe v Lewis - was a real shame they didnt fight as pro's.
Tyson v Witherspoon - the only fighter i thought during the HW competition who could have tested Tyson , but he came in fat and got TKO by Bonecrusher.

[GOAT]

Layla Ali vs Trish Stratus.


Experimental, of course.

[Manju]

PBF v Pac now falls into this category, and may very well be the only one where the #1 and #2 P4P fighters never met. Barring a miraculous return to form by Pac, the moment is over. And even then, PBF isn't exactly a spring chicken.

[Manju]

Would've loved to have seen Tyson v Foreman. Foreman came back during Tyson's peak but was viewed as a joke. However, he proved to be for real...retaining his power coupled with a weird but oddly effective defense. He never hit the canvas.

Of course, he could be rather easily outboxed but how would Tyson pull that off? Styles make fights and Tyson was essentially Frazier. Ergo, a Foreman fight risky. It would've been high-drama to see if Tyson could get to Foreman before Foreman landed one of his heavy punches.

[Beanflicker]

PBF v Pac now falls into this category, and may very well be the only one where the #1 and #2 P4P fighters never met. Barring a miraculous return to form by Pac, the moment is over. And even then, PBF isn't exactly a spring chicken.

Agreed 100%. Since the fight, Pac has lost twice (one by BRUTAL ko) and although Floyd is still undefeated, he is now showing signs of slowing with age IMO.

They had a window of opportunity to make the fight of the century and they blew it.

[Beanflicker]

Tyson vs A Southpaw

Who? The only one I could think of that would have been a compelling matchup was Michael Moorer, and I think they missed each other's times.

To me, the biggest blown fight ever will ALWAYS be Pac vs PBF. You had two MEGASTARS at the top of their sport, around the same weight, in their absolute PRIMES, and it never happened because of their egos and even if it does happen in the future, it won't even come close to matching the luster that it would have had they did it at the right time.

[Spicoli]

Fun stuff! But I always repeat myself

Many have been mentioned that are certains, Joltin Jeff vs Pintor, Lewis v Bowe, Dempsey v Wills, LaMotta v Cerdan (I always thought that was somewhat in the works when fate found Cerdan early?), Esparragoza v Fenech, on and on. Solid calls

A few off the top Carbajal v Lopez too. Mark Johnson v Tapia was a real miss! Chavez v Whitaker II...draw my ass. Jones jr v Benn or Euabank or Darius. Hamed v Marquez. Lt Hvy Michael Moorer v P.C Williams or Hill. Canizales v Galaxy. T Norris v Julio C Vasquez...I think that would have been a train wreck of a solid scrap! Brandon Rios v any available Hummer truck?

[Thunder]

Fun stuff! But I always repeat myself

Many have been mentioned that are certains, Joltin Jeff vs Pintor, Lewis v Bowe, Dempsey v Wills, LaMotta v Cerdan (I always thought that was somewhat in the works when fate found Cerdan early?), Esparragoza v Fenech, on and on. Solid calls

A few off the top Carbajal v Lopez too. Mark Johnson v Tapia was a real miss! Chavez v Whitaker II...draw my ass. Jones jr v Benn or Euabank or Darius. Hamed v Marquez. Lt Hvy Michael Moorer v P.C Williams or Hill. Canizales v Galaxy. T Norris v Julio C Vasquez...I think that would have been a train wreck of a solid scrap! Brandon Rios v any available Hummer truck?

On the Cerdan v La Motta rematch I think Cerdan was actually on a flight to America to fight la Motta when the plane crashed, so yeah it was a definite goer until fate stepped in as you say. So a vastly different reason for not happening from say leonard v pryor

[Spicoli]

Fun stuff! But I always repeat myself

Many have been mentioned that are certains, Joltin Jeff vs Pintor, Lewis v Bowe, Dempsey v Wills, LaMotta v Cerdan (I always thought that was somewhat in the works when fate found Cerdan early?), Esparragoza v Fenech, on and on. Solid calls

A few off the top Carbajal v Lopez too. Mark Johnson v Tapia was a real miss! Chavez v Whitaker II...draw my ass. Jones jr v Benn or Euabank or Darius. Hamed v Marquez. Lt Hvy Michael Moorer v P.C Williams or Hill. Canizales v Galaxy. T Norris v Julio C Vasquez...I think that would have been a train wreck of a solid scrap! Brandon Rios v any available Hummer truck?

On the Cerdan v La Motta rematch I think Cerdan was actually on a flight to America to fight la Motta when the plane crashed, so yeah it was a definite goer until fate stepped in as you say. So a vastly different reason for not happening from say leonard v pryor

I wouldn't mind finding more on Cerdan at all. Jake knew that left was gimp and from what I've seen Cerdan had a very decent, sneaky left hook. He was built like a tank, too bad it all ended badly & early for him.

[Beanz]

Hatton- Witter just so Junior would STFU. Ricky would have retired him.

[Tam Seddon]

Calzaghe-Froch would have no doubt been one of the biggest British fights of all time if they had both rose to the top at the same time.

Personally I still reckon Calazaghe should just get fit and have a crack at Froch, but I know he's been out for a while and Hatton has showed us long inactivity + cocaine = a loss.

[TitoFan]

Bit of a twist on @smashup s thread.


Burley/Robinson @160
Duran/Arguello @135
Chandler/Pintor@118
Sanchez/Arguello @130
Arbachakov/2 sharp @112
Pedroza/Sanchez @126
Toney/Jackson @160
The entire Murders row member’s vs any champ of their day.
Oscar/Zu @140
Adamek/Haye@200
Jones/Benn@168
Quartey/Trinidad @147
Norris/Trinidad@154 or Hearns/McCallum
Hill/Williams@175
Lewis/Bowe@hev

Sadly all of them could have actually been made along with plenty of others.

Tremendous matchups, all of them.
Not a big Bowe fan, however... and I would've loved to have seen Lewis sweep the ring canvas with him.

[jon09]

Whitaker vs Camacho
Tyson vs Toney
Holmes vs Foreman
JMM vs Morales