Dream fights that actually happened

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  1. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    What are some historical fights, that if hadn't occurred, would have been debated forever?

    I think it's a pleasant miracle that Ali fought Liston. That would have been hard to call without hindsight.

    Foreman vs. Frazier is a great one.

    What else?
     
  2. BrutalForeman

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    Tyson vs Holyfield, 1st and second
    Dempsey vs Tuney, 1st and second
    Marciano vs Loius, even though Louis was shot he was still #1 contender
    Foreman vs Moorer
    Haggler vs Ray Leonard, even though it was a bad decision
    Mayweather vs Pac
     
  3. gmurphy

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    Roy Jones Jr vs enzo
     
  4. WhyYouLittle

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    Ezzard Charles vs. Archie Moore (any and all of them),

    Harry Greb vs. Mickey Walker,

    Gene Tunney vs. Tommy Loughran,

    SRL vs. Tommy Hearns I,
     
  5. reznick

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    Ali Foreman. If that hadn't happened, I don't think anyone would pick him to win at that age in a dream fight.

    It's so great that we got that match up.
     
  6. turpinr

    turpinr Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    langford ketchel even though there wasn't much at stake.
     
  7. BillB

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    The Patterson-Liston fights.
    If they had not happened, there would be many people saying that Liston was a slow plodder who could not have coped with Patterson's blinding speed.

    Marciano - LaStarza II. LaStarza arguably beat Rocky in their first fight. I can imagine 'LaStarza only got better while Marciano was on the decline'.
     
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    Sanchez--Gomez was big. And it would have been very easy in the world of multiple belts to avoid each other.

    Another big one was Zarate--Zamora. That was goosepimples all the way and impossible to go the distance.

    Another interesting one like above was McClellan--Jackson #1. They could have avoided each other and there was no way that the fight would last long.

    Saad--Qawi 1. I knew Dwight was a heckuva fighter and there was lots miles on the Saad odometer. But he'd been getting by with that mileage and still getting the ko's.

    Eubank--Benn 2. 2 guys that did not like each other and what an easy fight to sell. And both with a style that did not exactly suit the other. Some job by Benn considering the ko defeat the first time.

    Hide--Vitali. Vitali being the road warrior and 2 ko guys in there. No jabs or feeling out in this one. And Klitschko fought more of a gunslinger style back then. No way it was going 5 rounds. And it didn't.
     
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    Roy Jones Jr vs Tito Trinidad
     
  10. swagdelfadeel

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    If Frazier - Foreman hadn't happened, everybody would've said Foreman was to slow to deal with Frazier.
     
  11. reznick

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    I could see that happening too.
     
  12. janitor

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    That "not much" might include a meaningful result, given that Langford is alleged to have carried Ketchel.
     
  13. turpinr

    turpinr Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    They were supposedly going to fight a 45 round title fight so a 6 rounder was meaningless
     
  14. turpinr

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    Zamora vs Zarate should have been bigger than it was
     
  15. foreman&dempsey

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    Floyd patterson vs sonny liston . michael spinks vs mike tyson
    Holyfield vs tyson( if they never fought everybody would pick tyson)