50 Greatest Fights of all time that never happened

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  1. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

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    Jack Dempsey v. Joe Louis - Louis TKO 6
    Muhammad Ali v. Mike Tyson - Ali TKO 13
    Joe Frazier v. Rocky Marciano - Frazier TKO 6
    Sonny Liston v. Evander Holyfield - Liston MD*
    Gene Tunney v. Jack Johnson - Johnson KO 10
    Larry Holmes v. Jersey Joe Walcott - Holmes (T)KO 11
    George Foreman v. Lennox Lewis - Lewis (T)KO 10
    Sam Langford v. Jimmy Bivins - Langford KO 6
    Ezzard Charles v. Roy Jones - Jones SD 15
    Archie Moore v. Michael Spinks - Spinks UD*
    Billy Conn v. Bob Foster - Conn UD*
    Victor Galindez v. Dwight Muhammad Qawi - Muhammad Qawi TKO 11
    Matthew Saad Muhammad v. Jose Torres - Saad Muhammad TKO 9
    Harry Greb v. Marvin Hagler - Greb SD*
    Stanley Ketchel v. Rocky Graziano - Ketchel KO 7
    Dick Tiger v. Tony Zale - Tiger UD*
    Mickey Walker v. Jake LaMotta - Walker UD 15
    Bernard Hopkins v. Carlos Monzon - Monzon SD*
    James Toney v. Gene Fullmer - Toney KO 7
    Nino Benvenuti v. Marcel Cerdan - Cerdan KO 13
    Ray Robinson v. Ray Leonard - Robinson UD*
    Carmen Basilio v. Thomas Hearns - Hearns KO 7
    Kid Gavinal v. Felix Trinidad - Gavilan MD*
    Jose Napoles v. Fritzie Zivic - Napoles UD*
    Barney Ross v. Pipino Cuevas - Ross UD*
    Jimmy McLarnin v. Emile Griffith - Griffith by Decision* (doesn't
    indicate whether unanimous, majority, or split)
    Simon Brown v. Lloyd Honeyghan - Brown TKO 12
    Aaron Pryor v. Meldrick Taylor - Pryor TKO 13
    Tony Canzoneri v. Julio Cesar Chavez - Chavez SD 15
    Wilfred Benitez v. Kostya Tszyu - Tszyu KO 14
    Roberto Duran v. Pernell Whitaker - Whitaker SD 15
    Benny Leonard v. Henry Armstrong - Armstrong MD*
    Alexis Arguello v. Carlos Ortiz - Arguello UD*
    Ike Williams v. Floyd Mayweather - Williams UD*
    Shane Mosley v. Beau Jack - Mosley (T)KO 10
    Joe Brown v. Lou Ambers - Ambers MD*
    Joe Gans v. Ken Buchanan - Buchanan UD*
    Kid Chocolate v. Flash Elorde - Chocolate UD*
    Marco Antonio Barrera v. Willie Pep - Pep UD*
    Ruben Olivares v. Azumah Nelson - Nelson KO 7
    Sandy Saddler v. Salvador Sanchez - Saddler TKO 14
    Naseem Hamed v. Eder Jofre - Hamed TKO 11
    Vicente Saldivar v. Bobby Chacon - Saldivar TKO 13
    Wilfredo Gomez v. Jeff Fenech - Gomez MD 15
    Panama Al Brown v. Fighting Harada - Harada MD*
    Carlos Zarate - Jeff Chandler - Zarate KO 6
    Terry McGovern v. Manuel Ortiz - Ortiz KO 13
    Benny Lynch v. Pancho Villa - Lynch UD*
    Jimmy Wilde v. Ricardo Lopez - Lopez TKO 11
    Miguel Canto v. Pascual Perez - Perez SD*
     
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  3. George Crowcroft

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    Some of these are very strange. Both for the fights and the results.
     
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  4. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    Thanks....it was too much work for me to do
     
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  5. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    Im wondering why no Berbick vs Moorer or no Dick Tiger vs Yaqui Lopez, myself.
     
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  6. sweetsci

    sweetsci Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I read the title and I thought it was more along the lines of, "50 Greatest Scheduled Fights We Ended Up Missing Out On." That kind of thing really interests me. Like, what would have happened if:
    - Tyson and Holyfield would've met in 1991?
    - Tyson and Ruddock would've met in late 1989?
    - Ali and Liston would've rematched in late 1964?
    - Foreman and Bonavena would've met in early 1975?

    ... just to name four.
     
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  7. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    What fights and results are strange?
     
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  8. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    Nah it's 50 Greatest Fantasy Fights
     
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  9. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    I've always wanted to see Marvin Johnson vs Yvon Durrele. That'd be one helluva fight. Kelley vs Chacon too.
    Chacon vs Saldivar was the one which caused my comment. But Lopez vs Wilde, Charles vs Jones, Frazier vs Marciano, Fullmer vs Toney and Tunney vs Johnson are stupid picks.
     
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  10. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    I'd think that Frazier vs Marciano would be a shoe in.
     
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  11. William Walker

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    Some of those outcomes are downright absurd!
     
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    William Walker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I prefer to think about matches that could have happened as well, like:
    Walcott vs. Moore
    Patterson vs. Williams
    Paret vs. Carter
    Ali vs. Machen
    Foreman vs. Ellis
    Frazier vs. Norton
    Frazier vs. Shavers
    Norton vs. Spinks
    Duran vs. Mugabi
    Hagler vs. Barkley
    Foreman vs. Mercer
    etc.
     
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  13. ChrisJS

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    I remember this edition. Pure tripe a lot of it. Olivares in a fantasy match at featherweight while Zarate-Olivares is a dream match but they put Zarate in with Chandler, an easy fight. Jofre-Hamed and I’m convinced the writer (Gareth Harris a big Hamed fan) has never seen Jofre and used his age as a weakness when Jofre should have been a in a bantam fight and yet at 37 and up accomplished far more than Hamed at 126 anyway. He laughably picks Hamed to win. Probably just saw the match and rather than analyze just said “Hamed wins because I like him”
     
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  14. Richard M Murrieta

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    That Hernia Bug got Ali on Nov 13 1964, cancelling their Nov 16 1964 rematch in Boston.
     
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  15. sweetsci

    sweetsci Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Yep. Too bad we missed it. All the talk, of course, was that Liston was really prepared for the November rematch.
     
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