Name some heavyweight fights that could have happened but didn't.

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  1. CroBox29

    CroBox29 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    These came to mind.

    Larry Holmes vs. George Foreman

    Lennox Lewis vs. Riddick Bowe

    Tommy Morrison vs. Andrew Golota

    Riddick Bowe vs. Ray Mercer

    Mike Tyson vs. Ray Mercer

    Ike Ibeabuchi vs. Tommy Morrison

    Ike Ibeabuchi vs. Ray Mercer

    Mike Tyson vs. Ike Ibeabuchi


    There are more, but I have listed these for now.
     
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  2. Melankomas

    Melankomas Corbett beats your favourite fighter

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    Harry Wills vs. Jack Dempsey
     
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    Ezzard charles vs Joe Louis II
    liston vs frazier
     
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  4. ikrasevic

    ikrasevic War for Souls Full Member

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    Ken Norton Vs. Joe Frazier
    Mike Tyson Vs. Riddick Bowe
     
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  5. Reinhardt

    Reinhardt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Mike Tyson Tommy Morrison
     
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  6. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    Tyson vs. Bowe because Mike was in jail from 1992-1995
    Marciano vs. Patterson
    Foreman vs. Shavers
    Holmes vs. Dokes
    Holmes vs. Page
    Weaver vs. Cooney
    Cooney vs. Page
    Coetzee vs. Cooney
    Holmes vs. Coetzee
    Johnson vs. Dempsey
    Ike vs. everybody in the 90s minus Tua

    For the record I'd like to state, I think Larry Holmes wins all the abovementioned matches involving him.
     
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  7. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    These not only could've but "should've" happened, there was no reason they shouldn't have.

    Tyson vs. Tua
    LLewis vs. Byrd
     
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  8. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Marciano v Baker
    Marciano v Valdez
    Marciano v Satterfield
    Liston v Harold Johnson
    Archie Moore v Louis
    Archie Moore v Jersey Joe Walcott
    Tyson v Tua
    Wlad v Tua
    Just to list the few I really would have wanted to c and haven’t seen listed yet
     
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  9. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    There are too many lost and some have already mentioned some good ones. I suppose Joe Louis vs Elmer Ray might have been interesting. Two huge punchers
     
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  10. Richard M Murrieta

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    Muhammad Ali vs Eddie Machen (1965) or Ernie Terrell vs Floyd Patterson (1965)
     
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  11. Turnip mk3

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    Tyson v Mercer
     
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    Mike_b Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Toney vs Tyson (roach said he wouldn't be surprised if someone at the weigh in brought a gun!''
    Hopkins vs maskaev "I heard murmurs if bhop wanting to move up for this)
    Andre Ward vs Anthony Joshua (I heard rumblings that sog wanted to cherrypick this)
    Baby joe Messi vs Mike Tyson (who screwed this one up?)
    Tarver vs jones jr AT heavyweight.
    Jameel mccline vs James toney (David and Goliath)
    Tua vs valuev (could he( Tua) crack that egg ?)
    Jameel vs grant REMATCH!
    Lennox Lewis vs Kirk bubba johnson (all Canadian show down)
    Jameel vs Klitschko REMATCH (could mccline possibly throw anymore punches at a green wlad?)
    John Ruiz getting the chance to unify vs: Byrd and/or Lennox Lewis.
     
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  13. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Henry Akinwande vs. John Ruiz

    Butterbean vs. George Foreman

    Peter McNeely vs. Lennox Lewis

    Dwight Qawi vs. Francesco Damiani
     
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  14. Seamus

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    John Ruiz v Mike Tyson
     
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  15. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    These fights were signed but didn’t happen due to alphabet shenanigans, financing falling through, training injuries or other reasons.

    Gerry Cooney vs. Mike Weaver

    Larry Holmes vs. Gerrie Coetzee

    Old Larry Holmes vs. Old George Foreman

    Evander Holyfield vs. Francesco Damiani (Bert Cooper subbed for the Italian, who was injured in training)
     
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