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    Default Re: What Fight Would Have Changed History The Most, If It Went The Other Way?

    Tyson-Douglas changed the entire history of the sport and till to this day has a lasting effect.

    Surely the most dramatic night in the sports history. Sure thriller in manilla, rumble in jungle are the 2 biggest fights in the sport but for sheer history tyson-douglas has to rank up their as number 1

    Tyson just turned up assuming all he had to do was step in the ring and blow out just another fighter which he did for the best part of 4 rounds. All of a sudden this complete nobody was actually hurting the unbeatable force and nobody but nobody would of gone on to predict what actually happened!!
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    I would have said Clay and Liston. If Liston beat him what would become of Clay. Would he have become Ali ? Would have fought Frazier? What the hell would havew happenend.

    If Joe Louis wasn't knocked out by Schmeling the first time he would have been the greatest fighter to have ever laced up gloves.

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    I say World War 2...

    What about Hopkins-De la Hoya, RJJ or Titio? Oscar wins and he and Hopkins switch places on the all-time great list. Suddenly all those middleweight defenses vs. nobodies look worse if the 1st time he steps up and fights a great fighter he loses. Tito is an all time great if he knocks out Bernard. Jones Jr. doesn't look as shiney with a real lose on his record early in the game as well.

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    Cassius Clay vs Henry Cooper.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Fightfan View Post
    I would have said Clay and Liston. If Liston beat him what would become of Clay. Would he have become Ali ? Would have fought Frazier? What the hell would havew happenend.

    If Joe Louis wasn't knocked out by Schmeling the first time he would have been the greatest fighter to have ever laced up gloves.
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    Dempsey lost to Willard.
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    Had defending champion Ledwaba stopped a replacement fighter in the then unkown Manny Pacquiao... Barrera, Morales, Dela Hoya, and Hatton will would have had surely, better longevity to their careers, to say the least.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KananKrus View Post
    Had defending champion Ledwaba stopped a replacement fighter in the then unkown Manny Pacquiao... Barrera, Morales, Dela Hoya, and Hatton will would have had surely, better longevity to their careers, to say the least.
    Just couldn't help yourself could you??

    Well, at least the one beneficial impact of that is we wouldn't have tiresome posters such as yourself constantly looking to bring up their idol at any opportunity.

    I'd say Ali-Frazier III was the one to pop to mind, especially as it was so close to going the other way. Ali-Foreman is another one, as that was the fight that really defined greatness.

    Going with something different though, I'll side with Duran-Leonard II. Had Leonard not won, had there been no 'No Mas', we would have never had SRL-Hearns & I think it would have completely destroyed the subsequent fights of The Four Kings. Duran would have probably got KO'd by Hearns any way, but I reckon Hearns would box Hagler to a decision, similar to much of the fight with Leonard & there would not be the same mysticism around them. Similar to how there now isn't about Wilfred Benitez, who at the time many were saying was the successor to Sugar Ray Robinson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KananKrus View Post
    Had defending champion Ledwaba stopped a replacement fighter in the then unkown Manny Pacquiao... Barrera, Morales, Dela Hoya, and Hatton will would have had surely, better longevity to their careers, to say the least.
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    If Hearns had of sparked Hagler, then Hearns would of got the biggest 'W' of his career and Hagler would have had only Duran as his best win.

    Kinda reshapes the fab-4 argument...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimboogie View Post
    If Hearns had of sparked Hagler, then Hearns would of got the biggest 'W' of his career and Hagler would have had only Duran as his best win.

    Kinda reshapes the fab-4 argument...
    A big 'If' though mate

    I still think Hearns was arguably more talented than any of them (maybe not Duran ) he just had a suspect beard and spiders legs.

    If fights were 12 rounds back then, he would've beaten Leonard, he was robbed in the rematch draw and he KOed Duran

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    Quote Originally Posted by BIG H View Post
    If fights were 12 rounds back then, he would've beaten Leonard, he was robbed in the rematch draw and he KOed Duran
    I agree, it's a shame he's viewd as that guy who lost all his big fights.

    Quote Originally Posted by BIG H View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Jimboogie View Post
    If Hearns had of sparked Hagler, then Hearns would of got the biggest 'W' of his career and Hagler would have had only Duran as his best win.

    Kinda reshapes the fab-4 argument...
    A big 'If' though mate
    Hehe, okay, IF Hearns hadn't had a homoerotic rub-down in the spider leg region, then proceded to brake his hand off Hagler's Jaw..... Maybe then it wouldn't be such a big IF
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    Theres so many what ifs in the sport of boxing.

    Benn vs McClellan

    Hopkins vs Trinidad

    Frazier vs Ali 1

    Chavez vs Randall 1

    Hopkins vs Jones

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    Quote Originally Posted by jon09 View Post
    Theres so many what ifs in the sport of boxing.

    Benn vs McClellan

    Hopkins vs Trinidad

    Frazier vs Ali 1

    Chavez vs Randall 1

    Hopkins vs Jones
    Andrew 'kid Thunder' Hartley v Charlie Zelenoff

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