Fights we never saw and were cheated out of

Tyson Vs Holyfield as it was originally planned - 1991


Also, had he not ended up in prison I believe he would have collided head-on with Riddick Bowe in 1992, & that would have been a war...

So Tyson Vs Bowe 1992


Foreman Vs Ibeabuchi 1996 (u could still classify the president as a journeyman then for foreman, but imagine the bomb-fest it would have been) :bbb



It's late here in Australia so if I can't think of more on the spot forgive me, i'l get back to you on this topic

 

Dempsey vs Greb

Dempsey vs Wills

 

Marquez vs Morales around the early '00s.

 

good idea for a thread and a good opening post with good examples
Note that even if pac-may will happen it will happen too late when both fighters are removed from their prime instead of when it should have happened which is 1-3 years ago.

I would argue that Toney-Jones and Ali-Foreman are other 2 examples for these but only the avid users here know what i mean.
even jones-calzaghe and hopkins-calzaghe can be regarded as such .
same for lewis-klitschko #2 , lewis rahman #3 , louis-schmelling #3 and lewis-mccall #2 (and yes , i mean #2 , not just #3) , frazier-chuvalo (frazier thumbed him which ruined the fight) ,

anyway :
larry holmes-duane bobick (rematch from the ams)
larry holmes-nick wells (whom will always be remembered as holmes'
daddy)
bobick-wells (battle of the daddies and a rematch from the ams)

jones-liles (rematch from the ams)
jones-michalczewski (to set true "lineality")
jones-mcclellan (rematch from the ams)
jones-collins
jones-eubanks

toney-jackson
liles-toney

jones vs orlin norris
toney vs orlin norris
byrd vs orlin norris

and i will try to go for the "biggest" now :
tyson-tua
vitali-mccall @ 2001 or 2004
vitali-mccline
(we were robbed of it as mccline was robbed of the decision vs peter)
(one could argue that if wlad beat him then it's unnecessay but wlad
also beat byrd whom stopped his brother and vitali beat puritty only
due to cuts)
toney vs byrd
jones vs byrd
lewis vs byrd
jones vs toney @ hw or cw

 

Duran/Leonard III in june 81 with a motivated & non weight drained Duran thrashing that charlatan within an inch of his life just as he did in Montreal.

But Leonard would never re-match Duran/Hearns or Benitez not unless he could drain them:deal

 

holmes-foreman, franken frank, is orlin norris vs chris byrd a fight we were cheated out of??

 

Haye could have already fought Vitali now and still went on to face Wlad regardless of the outcome

Klitschko-Valuev is one I'd like to have seen. Valuev was kept well away from both brothers

Roy Jones against Benn or Eubank, or slighty later against Calzaghe (but not as late as when they actually fought)

 

In my time i'd say we were robbed of:

Benn - jones
4 years worth of tyson
Oscar - winky
Hamed - morales
Marquez - morales
Lewis - wlad
Pavlik - abraham
Hatton - witter
Calzaghe having a good run at lhw

 

Tunney vs Schmeling..i think Tunney would have decisively defeated the great German in a Battle of Cool..two high quality, cool strategic greats of the game.