Dream fights that actually happened

You're right about Holy-Tyson, I would have picked Tyson all day longatsch

 

Thankfully we now know Foreman can more than deal with Frazier.

 

Zarate - Gomez

 

Hagler-Hearns.

 

"Zamora vs Zarate should have been bigger than it was"

Both guys were champs....but the Alphabets wouldn't let it be a "unification" fight. So the fight was to be over 10 rounds with no titles at stake.

 

Biggest mstake ever made in boxing history, arguably.

 

Any Fab 4 fight.

 

J, the key word is "alleged" to have "carried" Ketchel. This alleged is always bandied about when discussing the Langford /Ketchel bout in Philly in 1910. WHAT IS NEVER MENTIONED ABOUT THIS FIGHT IS THAT SAM LANGFORD WAS ABOUT TWELVE TO FIFTEEN POUNDS HEAVIER THAN THE DISSAPATED KETCHEL WHO CARRIED THE FIGHT TO THE MIGHTY LANGFORD. Ketchel recovering from an opium addiction was shot and killed at a friends house in Conway, Miss. one year later..Today it is considered "cool" to discredit the mighty MW Stanley Ketchel, but in his time and decades later Stanley was always #1 in the middleweight pantheon by boxing experts who saw him ringside...I rate him,along with Bob Fitz and my man Harry Greb as the top 3 middleweights ever. Sue me...

 

Frazier - Ali I

 

Montreal was the FOTC of the 1980's in living up to the hype, with massive P4P ATG ramifications for the older and smaller man. Between Montreal and New Orleans, Duran placed second to Robinson in a reader's poll rating the greatest WWs of all time.

Hagler-Hearns was another monster which lived up to the hype. Tommy had a few of these in his career.

 

They were setting off fireworks in the streets of Inglewood before this one. Arguably the bantamweight FOTC and most important ten round non-title FOTC.

Gomez-Zarate, Sanchez-Gomez and Gomez-Pintor. (Gomez-Pintor was Manila in miniature.)

Donald Curry got into a few as both winner and loser. Starling I & II, Colin Jones, LaRocca, McCrory, Stafford and McCallum did not produce epic outcomes, but in terms of establishing a career legacy and following in SRL's footsteps, he did re-consolidate the WW Title and took on who he could while at 147.

Two main differences between The Cobra and SRL.

1) Discipline and focus. Ray always made sure to enter training camp below the weight limit of the division he was going to be competing in. Don failed miserably to do this for Honeyghan.

2) Punch resistance. Ray was never floored during his WW career, finally getting decked in his abortive comeback against Kevin Howard, but it was only in the final five bouts of his career that he was regularly sustaining knockdowns and getting bloodied up. (He took a total of 60 stitches worth of cuts from Duran III, Chuck Wepner territory.) Don was never that resistant to cuts or getting decked.

Ray was highly motivated and training harder than usual for Roger Stafford (who had a big mouth) when he suddenly called it a career prior to a sure successful title defense. (Nobody expected Stafford to beat him, but plenty were curious as to how SRL was going to trash Roger.) Put Ray in Donald's situation leading up to Honeyghan, and Ray would have cancelled that defense and ditched the title.

Pryor-Arguello I & II. Their epic first match left enough question marks that many thought Arguello would adapt as necessary to take the rematch. In training, he was working much harder on details like the lateral movement he was often criticized for lacking. This time there would be no Panama Lewis in Pryor's corner, or Eddie Futch in Arguello's. Now what was going to happen? To go down three times like Alexis did and take the final count after striking the floor in tearful frustration was a shock.

 

Meldrick Taylor vs Julio Caesar Chavez.

 

I have read that Langford had won the first three rounds and Ketchel won the last three and had Langford in trouble.