Best dream-fight matchmaker on ESB

Irish Bob Murphy/Henry Hank
Flourentino Fernandez/Pipino Cuevas
Lou Ambers/Beau Jack
Eduardo Lausse/Marcel Cerdan
Arturo Gatti/Andy Ganigan
Frankie DePaula/Danny Nardico
Freddie Steele/Rocky Graziano
George Benton/Nigel Benn
Jose Monon Gonzalez/Frank Fletcher
Bob Satterfield/Yvon Durelle

TEN!

 

The first 4 are especially good.

 

Rafael Marquez-Lupe Pintor
Jimmy Wilde-Ricardo Lopez
Roberto Duran-Carmen Basilio
Kid Chocolate-Pernell Whitaker
Benny Paret-Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Rafael Limon-Julio Cesar Chavez
Jeff Chandler-Wilfredo Gomez
Carlos Ortiz-Aaron Pryor
Joe Calzaghe-Matthew Saad Mohamad
Antonio Margarito-Lupe Aquino

Ten on the Nose!

 

Thanks JG.
la-califa has put together some great match-ups too!

Now I got to ask, JG...where is your list?

 

1. Salvador Sanchez vs. Sandy Saddler

2. Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Azumah Nelson

3. Benny Leonard vs. Joe Gans

4. Henry Armstrong vs. Aaron Pryor

5. Charley Burley vs. Thomas Hearns

6. 1957 Sugar Ray Robinson vs. 1987 Ray Leonard

7. Gerald McClellan vs. Bernard Hopkins

8. Nigel Benn vs. Stanley Ketchel

9. Bob Foster vs. Ezzard Charles

10. Razor Ruddock vs. Ron Lyle
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Ain't those perty??

 

Another ten for fun....

Jake LaMotta/James Toney
Bobby Chacon/Erik Morales
Charley Burley/Bernard Hopkins (not exactly a fan favorite.but I think it would be great)
Vicente Saldivar/Marco Antonio Barrera
Sugar Ray Robinson/Billy Graham
Luis Angel Firpo/Arturo Godoy
Yaqui Lopez/Marvin Johnson
Sadd Muhammad/Michael Moorer
Rodrigo Valdez/Tony Zale
Fighting Harada/Lupe Pintor

 

I nominate myself for making the MOST and the WEIRDEST match ups.

Boo Yah.

 

Indeed, now let me think of 10......

1. George Foreman vs Sonny Liston

2. Evander Holyfield vs Jack Dempsey

3. Archie Moore vs Michael Spinks

4. RJJ vs Ezzard Charles

5. Carlos Monzon vs Bernard Hopkins

6. Thomas Hearns vs SRR

7. SRL vs Kid Gavilan

8. Aaron Pryor vs Jose Napoles

9. Roberto Duran vs Pernell Whitaker

10. Alexis Arguello vs Sandy Saddler

11. Willie Pep vs Hank Armstrong

12. Wilfredo Gomez vs Jeff Fenech

13. Carlos Zarate vs Ruben Olivares

Ok, 13 going down in descending divisions

 

More than any other fights i would from my perspective want these fights.

1. Harry Greb vs Les Darcy (160)

2. Sugar Ray Robinson vs Dave Sands (160)

3. Floyd Mayweather vs Kostya Tszyu (140)

4. Arturo Gatti vs Michael Katsidis (135)

5. Marvin Hagler vs Carlos Monzon (160)

6. Ike Williams vs Roberto Duran (135)

7. Manny Pacquiao vs Flash Elorde (130)

8. Antonio Margarito vs Thomas Hearns (147)

9. Mike Tyson vs Joe Louis (HW)

10. Jeff Fenech vs Erik Morales (122)

 

Top quality top 5. Love your #1 (I've pick my choices in bold). I do rate Robbo #1 at WW by the way, but I think head to head Ray may just shade it.

 

Gentlemen, the above responses are mouth watering... I will invite some personal ridicule, and offer my post with an Australian theme.

1. Young Griffo vs Willie Pep... (126) I cant believe this was not an offering thus far.

2. Dave Sands vs Marvin Haglar...(160)

3. Les Darcy vs Jake LaMotta...(160)

4. Jeff Harding vs Billy Conn...(175)

5. Lionel Rose vs Carlos Zarate...(118)

6. Tony Mundine vs Tony Zale...(160)

7. Jeff Fenech vs Eusebio Pedroza...(126)

8. Johnny Famechon vs Sandy Saddler...(126)

9. Ron Richards vs Roberto Duran...(160)

10. Les Darcy vs Jack Dempsey

Griiffo/Pep speaks for itself.
Sands/Haglar would be a display of Sand`s perennial ability.
Darcy/LaMotta would expose the deepest endevours of their strengths..
Harding/Conn would be an enjoyable slugfest..
Rose/Zarate, in his Lionels prime, and satisfied at the weight, this may be a classic.
Mundine/Zale is mentioned as Zale might be in some difficulties with Mundine.
Fenech/Pedroza as Fenech is needed to be tested against a 'quality' south paw 'CHAMPION'
Famechon/Saddler due the fine examples of evasive skills.
Richards/Duran.. for those without knowledge of Richards, he was Aust MW/ LH/ HW champ. Beating Lesnevich, Actis, Clarence Reeves, and went the distance with a young Archie Moore. A lot is to be said about him, which Im happy to post if your interested. He remained calm in the roughest of fights, hence this suggestion. At M/W, he was something to see.
Darcy/Dempsey as Darcy was stronger than Carpentier, Gibbons, Brennan and Tunney. Not as skilled as Carpentier and Tunney. Although, had he not passed away, Dempsey must have been a likely fighter for him to have faced at some point.