Cancelled! - Fights We Never Got To See

Unless Im mistaken Giachetti was still training Tyson when he fought Holy. At least in the second fight. Otherwise I agree with you on basically everything and would favor the 91 Tyson to beat Holy. The 88 Tyson poops in his mouth.

 

Moore/Robinson looked a go'er for a while in 58/59...

 

Ali Quarry 3 in 1974

 

I blew out a Benn fight to go see Sot Chitalada fight Duke McKenzie the same night. The Thai got injured and I got Horace Notice verses Dean Waters, and Bobby Frankham going mad!atsch

 

Tyson was trained by Jay Bright from '95-96, then Giachetti was hired again for Holyfield II in '97. Tyson trained the hardest he ever did post-prison for that rematch...but sadly Holyfield wanted to turn it into a disgraceful street fight & Tyson took it one notch further. I think Tyson was just an emotional wreck at the time (a very common mental state for him post-prison) so when he fought back harder against the bullying tactics of Holy & was met throughout with huge ramming butts cutting his eye sockets that Lane ruled unintentional, he lost it. Holyfield took round 1 & if you score rounds for ridiculous grappling & butting (I don't) then he got round 2, but Tyson came out punching like a demon in round 3...it's such a shame it had to end in that round. In my opinion, Lane should have deducted points for butting in round 2 & it would have been a clean fight (not including the heaps of HGH in Holy's system) from then on. Seriously I know Holy has his own special way of ramming that isn't traditional butting, but when a guy is frequently ramming into the eye sockets of his opponent & even wrestling them to the corner so that they can lunge at their eye socket head first...the referee should acknowledge it's clearly very intentional & warrants point deductions. Anyway I know in 1991 that Tyson was no "madman" & he would have countered any butts properly; with lowblows & elbows. (However it should be noted that Holy was way less dirty in 1991)

 

george chuvalo vs. earnie shavers
george chuvalo vs. sonny liston

both from the early 1970's

 

no. it was cooney-norton
gomez-ayala
pryor-mamby
and hearns-benitez and saad-mustafa

 

Im surprised no one has mentioned Arguello vs Duran that fight was close to being made. When Alexis was at JL and Durans last days at lightweight 1977-1978 to be exact.

 

I didn't read anything you posted beyond this..

So you intentionally added a comma to my quote to create an argument that isn't there? **** off, I'm not going to trade novels with you because you misquoted me.

 

Cooney-Weaver?

 

Mismatch of the 90s could of been the announced final WBC 175lbs eliminator between The Bodysnatcher and....

Crawford Ashley!!!!

 

Frank Bruno was set to face Greg Page in March 1987, but Page pulled out.

Bruno was ready to face Trevor Berbick in September 1987, but Berbick pulled out with an injury (then fought some bum a few weeks later in America or Canada !).

The Berbick fight especially would have been interesting.

I give Bruno some stick for a lot of his opposition, but he definitely tried there to fight Berbick and it seems Berbick ran out on the deal.

 

Steve Collins versus Joe Calzaghe 1997, for the WBO super-middle title.

Collins pulled out 2 weeks before, retired and vacated the title, stating honestly that he just couldn't get motivated for young no-name opponents like Joe.

 

Rubbish; Collins stated he had lost it, after getting his ass handed to him by some young Irish amateur champ, when he started preparation for the Calzaghe fight.

I would say that Collins was indeed looking for that Jones fight at the time. But as he later admitted, he would fought purely for the money if that fight had materialized.