Fights that got Ruined by a "Tune up"

It wasn't set in stone. And didn't Pac even say that he didn't want Crawford?

 

Not sure Roach or Pacman wanted it but Arum was all over it.

*there was also talk of Lomachenko at the time.

 

Judah losing to Baldomir, ultimate screw up losing a tune up...

 

Surprised no one mentioned Roman Gonzalez vs Sor Rungvisai. I think there was some interest in an Estrada rematch and not many knew or even gave Sor Rungvisai a chance against Chocolatito in the first fight. The decision loss took away the hype but the KO loss pretty much killed any possibility of a rematch against Estrada.

 

Was mandatory. That's why Judah took that fight.
Not a tuneup, but it was supposed to be as easy. Lucky for Judah, he didn't miss out on a big payday.

 

Davey Moore getting destroyed by Duran en route to a shot against Hagler. Not that Moore would have proved a worthy challenger for Hagler, obviously, but that fight resulted from horrible matchmaking.

Not a tuneup by any means, but Gerald McClellan and Roy Jones were on a collision course prior to the Benn fight. Nigel was considered past it. ...

I remember talk of Forrest/ODLH, prior to Mayorga. Whoops.

Morales/Raheem is another example of dreadful matchmaking. And as mentioned, Judah/Baldomir is one of the biggest chokejobs of all-time. You just couldn't count on Judah.

 

Both fights still happened.
And Hopkins-DLH was ****ing huge!

 

Rungvisai wasn't a tuneup. Just a stay busy mandatory fight. There is a difference.

 

Degale v Truax I. Warren was lining up Saunders-Degale and had already starting talk of the Emirates Stadium.

 

Idk man, 1mil in PPV's seems like a bloody good number.

 

If it was a mandatory, then my bad.