Hughie. Ready for Price?

[erics44]

but as you well know if you start something then you should really do a proper job

so as you brought up the need for examples then as soon as you give me the examples of all of these times promoters have just said this shit and it hasnt happened then ill start giving you examples of when it has

OK, off the top my bonce - Price-Fury, Quigg-Frampton, Hatton-Witter, Macklin/Barker/Murray/Lee. Do you remember the lightmiddles in the 90s? Roberts/Williams/Alexander/Farnell etc. All defending micky mouse titles instead of facing eachother, all arguing about who was the best, all got beat, lots of great fights lost.

Same old excuses - "wait until they get a bit bigger" "wait until they become "world" champion"... you wait and wait and wait and then get nothing.

i dont agree with all that

quigg frampton hasnt happened because of more of a promoters thing, neither really wanted it, each was too much of a risk than the other, perhaps wait till it gets bigger has been mentioned but never the real reason

hatton witter didnt happen because witter was a step back for hatton, i dont remember anyone mentioning wait till it gets bigger

the middleweights of recently all had their own paths, i dont remember 2 of them being at the same stage at the same time to warrent a fight, was the wait till it gets bigger thing ever mentioned, perhaps they would have fought each other had one of them won a world title, but even when one of them did there was a bigger fight, perhaps now is the best time, and perhaps if someone whould have made some sort or tourny a year or so back that would have been best for all their careers

my memory of the light middles is scetchy

Hatton-Witter was a red hot British title fight back around 2000, they even had the same promoter, it didn't happen, then later Hatton became THE legit world champ and said he wont fight Witter unless he proves himself world-class, Witter won the WBC title, Hatton said that's not good enough I'm not giving him a payday... blah, blah, blah. It never happened.

Quigg-Frampton and Fury-Price are further away than they've ever been. Macklin-Barker were actually scheduled to fight for the British title. It got called off and never happened again.

The point is - waiting for fights to become bigger only works in theory. The more you fight the more chance of losing, things go wrong, you end up on different paths.

That's why you can't name a fight between prospects that was later "built into a monster."

yeah but hatton witter didnt not happen because they were waiting for the fight to become bigger

neither did quigg frampton, there were/are/have been better/preferable avenues for both, it seemed in the earlier days quigg wanted it but frampton didnt

fury/price should have happened as its looking like we will now never see it

degale/groves would have been daft to rematch immediately

but the only one we have come up with that avoided each other for the reason of being made into a monster is price/fury which doesnt count coz thats what the thread is about