Megafights that didnt happen

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  1. elTerrible

    elTerrible TeamElite General Manager Full Member

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    There is so much talk about Mayweather-Pac not happening, but how often in history did the big matchups fall through?


    Im trying to think, generally they usually come through because the public demands them.

    The only ones I can think of are Foreman-Tyson, maybe SRL-Pryor and Lewis-Bowe. And of those the huge fight would have been foreman-tyson, which rumors say Tyson didnt want.


    Even fights like Tito-RJJ which everyone knew the outcome before it happened eventually came through after years of talking about it.
     
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  2. spud1

    spud1 HAWK TIME!!!! Full Member

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    ridick bowe vs lennox lewis
    jose luis castillo vs barerra/morales
     
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  3. Del Boy

    Del Boy R.I.P Darren Sutherland Full Member

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    RJJ vs Tyson
    Bowe vs Tyson
    VK vs Lewis II
    Foreman vs Ali II
     
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  4. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    If this fight doesn't happen, it's the most imoprtant fight never to happen.
     
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  5. ed7890

    ed7890 Col. Hunter Gathers Full Member

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    Ok well maybe not as big a super fight as some of those listed above, but in recent years Pavlik/Abraham.
     
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  6. elTerrible

    elTerrible TeamElite General Manager Full Member

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    I think history shows us the fight will happen.

    There are a lot of other fights that didnt get made but the timing was either not right or they were in different weight classes. Like Mosley-Tito and DLH-Hatton


    But Pac and PBF are both in the same weight class and have no recent losses and are near their primes. It will happen
     
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  7. Jacory Harris

    Jacory Harris I'm a gorilla I'm a dawg! Full Member

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    PacGwire needs to man up and take the goddamn tests. He'll either be exposed for being a cheater/fraud or be exposed in the ring for the one dimensional fighter he is.
     
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  8. ed7890

    ed7890 Col. Hunter Gathers Full Member

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    Should we list all the opponents we would have liked Mayweather to have faced but hasn't? Cotto, Margarito, Tszyu?

    JMM vs. Morales

    Arguello vs Duran is a fantasy fight I would have loved to have seen
     
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  9. LukeO

    LukeO Erik Morales is God Full Member

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    Manny Pacquiao vs A needle.
     
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  10. Jacory Harris

    Jacory Harris I'm a gorilla I'm a dawg! Full Member

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    :lol: not bad.
     
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  11. juanitoboxing

    juanitoboxing Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :lol:
     
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  12. Keueng

    Keueng Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :lol:
     
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  13. nip102

    nip102 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Rjj/dm
     
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  14. Keueng

    Keueng Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Freddie Roach VS Roger Mayweather

    No joke, wouldn't that be awesome? Both are the same age, Roger was a Junior WW and Roach was a LW so only one weight class difference. I mean now their wards are close signing to fight, it would be for a bigger legacy for all 4 of them :D

    (Leaving the fact aside that Roach was not that great a fighter, and had only a few meaningfull bouts...)
     
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  15. Keueng

    Keueng Boxing Addict Full Member

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    B-Hop VS Jones II and by that I don't mean that disgrace fight of 2010-04-03
    I mean the fight that should have happened 10 years ago...
     
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