Fights that happened vs. when they should've happened

great pick yourself. and G still outpointed him twice on my cards

 

Agree 100% my pal

 

Crawford vs Spence 2017-2019.

 

I remember when KO magazine did a write up on this. They predicted a KO victory for Cuevas.

 

Curry-McCrory 1983
Holmes-Witherspoon 1984

 

Hopkins would have won. imo

 

Off topic:
RJJ and Bernard Hopkins fought, and they had a "rematch" after 17 years.

 

yes, I misunderstood the topic, thank you

 

yes, and I have long argued that it was the Holyfield-Tyson case
Young Jones defeats the slightly older Hopkins cleanly. Old Jones loses cleanly to even older Hopkinse, although theoretically he should have won even more clearly than 17 years earlier. They are both in the game. But style makes a difference. In the case of Tyson and Holyfield it was the same plus other things that we all know about but I don't want to talk about them

 

Fury-Usyk could have happened already in 2022 and seen better versions of both.

 

I think Pac probably is to blame. Notning wrong with the test requirement. Do think that Floyd made it because he'd found a way to cheat the testas (IV), though.

 

Holyfield-Lewis seemed to be the right time. You can argue it should have happened a year earlier, but not much more for it to be a unification bout. Holyfield unified two of the belts in late 97’ when he beat Moorer, and Lewis had the WBC belt at the time. WBO wasn’t as respected, especially in the USA against the HW division.

I guess you can also say 94’ though. Holyfield won back 2 belts in late 93 against Bowe, and Lewis had the WBC belt. Holyfield lost to Moorer in 94’ and Lewis to McCall later that year. Maybe they could have fought each other in 94’


Not sure about SRL’s fights since he was inactive for so much of the 80s.

I don’t hold it against a WW champ for not facing a MW champ (that whole public challenge to Hagler and retirement is a different story though), but obviously both guys were better in earlier years than 87’. And then there was the Hearns rematch and Duran rubber match which both took place in 89’.