Felix Trinidad v Ike Quartey, IBF/WBA welterweight titles, 1995 Why didn’t it happen? Both fighters would hold onto their versions of the title...
Julio Cesar Chavez v Azumah Nelson, WBC super featherweight title, 1987 Why didn’t it happen? Chavez moved up to lightweight in late 1987...
Carlos Palomino v Pipino Cuevas, undisputed welterweight championship, 1978 Why didn’t it happen? For no good reason other than old fashioned...
Picking Robinson is understandable but no-one kayoed Burley. If anyone could, it would be Robinson but I wouldn’t expect it to happen.
Brilliant list, George. I agree about the ordering - my top 20-25 are in order and then it pretty much becomes ‘and this one too’.
Hearns-Leonard 2 was probably the most entertaining but Bowe-Holyfield 2 was more important and a very good fight as well. I think there’s a big...
Chavez didn’t have any particular problems with southpaws (Whitaker aside - but I don’t think that was anything to do with the southpaw stance)....
Love it, JT! I’d done my own write up of this same fight but didn’t want to post it as I was waiting to see what people posted first. Plus your...
Interesting matchups - not ones I’d considered. I don’t remember Chavez-Trinidad being discussed. Was that before Chavez lost to Randall?
That would have been a great one!
Well, yeah, or at 2009/2010 for sure… but I wasn’t thinking about fights that ultimately took place: e.g. Holyfield v Tyson in 1991 when they...
Great analysis as always, Greg.
I’ll start: Riddick Bowe v Lennox Lewis, undisputed heavyweight championship, 1993 Why didn’t it happen? In 1992, Bowe dumped his WBC title in...
This thread is for fights that looked like they were either going to happen or fights that could feasibly have happened but never did (so no...
Duran 145-141 Leonard I think Duran broke the back of the fight in the mid-to-late rounds to build up enough of a lead that the late Leonard...
