Trinidad was champion from 1993 to 2000
Quartey was champion from 1994 to 1998
Whitaker was champion from 1993 to 1997

There is a period here of 4 years were these three guys were champions and made many defenses but did not fight eachother.

I was still young at the time and new to boxing, but I don't remember anyone clamoring for unification matches. Was everyone just too entharelled with Tyson to take notice?

Why did these fights never take place?

After looking at this I really give a lot of credit to DLH (a fighter I use to despise). He took the title in 97 from Whitaker and in 3 years had alrady attempted 2 unification fights. After that a new trend was started. No other WW title holder went more than 2 defenses without attempting to unify.

We have gotten so use to this now that we demand the ww champions to fight eachother despite the fact that not one of them has defended the title more than twice. Do we ask too much of our current champions? or is the way it should be from now on?

We are living in good times if you are a fan of the WWs. Lets see how long this trend continues.