Cancelled! - Fights We Never Got To See

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  1. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Come on; John L would have had a punchers chance!;)
     
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  2. sweetsci

    sweetsci Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Gonna bump this thread I started some time ago...
     
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  3. BillB

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    Ali-Liston November, 1964 - Boston Garden
     
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  4. doug.ie

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  5. Nighttrain

    Nighttrain 'BOUT IT 'BOUT IT Full Member

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    Frazier-Knoetzee is a bizarre one!
     
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  6. turnip

    turnip Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I heard that he packed it in due to getting battered in sparring by Howard Eastman.Steve had had enough by then.I remember sky tv blanking out he face on the advertising plugging the fight.
     
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    N_ N___ Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Haye-Fury
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  8. Bonecrusher

    Bonecrusher Lineal Champion Full Member

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    Hasim Rahman vs Mike Tyson 2001, not scheduled but that's the fight Rahman wanted but Lewis had a rematch clause.

    Tyson beat Golota and Nielsen in 01 would he have lifted the title off the Rock??
     
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  9. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    That was a highly anticipated one

    I think it would have been a great fight, and watching how Holyfield got badly hurt by Cooper made me wonder at the time what would have happened if Tyson was in there instead of Cooper.
     
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  10. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    http://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/08/sports/harold-smith-man-and-his-money-remain-a-mystery.html

    Harold Rosefields Smith. Con Man

    I have an account at Wells Fargo and I still think of him from time to time when I go to a Wells Fargo ATM.

    Apparently his MAPS promotional company got most of its money from $$ stolen from Wells Fargo Bank. Smith had an employee help him. Apparently they couldn't get a loan or whatever. LOL.

    MAPS promoted Matthew Saad Muhammad v. Lotte Mwale and Eddie Mustafa Muhammad v. Rudi Koopmans in San Diego in Nov. 1980. I wonder if any of those fighter got paid.
     
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  11. doug.ie

    doug.ie 'Classic Boxing Society' Full Member

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    i think it was almost a done deal that hagler was going to fight animal fletcher around the time animal beat hard rock green...but it seems haglers plan was to let the beast mugabi take care of the contenders then he would take care of him.
     
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  12. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Wlad vs Chisora
     
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  13. heerko koois

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    Marciano vs I Johannsson
     
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  14. Wass1985

    Wass1985 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    After seeing Tyson getting flattened by Doiglas and seeing what Holyfield did to Douglas makes one wonder how easy it would have been for Evander.
     
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  15. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    You're partly right.

    After Fletcher beat Green, Hagler agreed to defend against him. However, Hagler had committed to facing Tony Sibson first.

    Fletcher's Manager, Marty Feldman, inexplicably agreed to have Fletcher defend his USBA title in a "keep busy" fight against the dangerous Wilford Sypion. Sypion won and got the title shot against Hagler in May 1983. This has to be one of the dumbest moves I've heard a manager make. Maybe Mike Jones, Sypion's manager, paid Feldman off - otherwise, it was an inexplicable boneheaded move on Feldman's part.

    Mugabi wasn't even in the Middleweight picture in late '82 - early '83 when this happened.
     
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