Fights that never should have happened

Even though he'd been finished for years, Jones jr v Lebedev.
When I heard about it being signed... a shot fighter whose chin had gone fighting a much younger, high level, big puncher in his own back yard... this had disaster written all over it from the start.

 

Liston vs Ali 1 shouldn’t have happened. Glad it did though.

 

Charles had already beaten Walcott x2 in title fights, + Walcott had lost his previous 2 in a row. there was no real reason for a 3rd title fight.

 

OK, I'll bite. Why should this have never happened?

 

Liston was injured to the point he could barely spar. They shot down his request for a reschedule because none of the officials liked him. I believe it should’ve happened, just not in that situation.

 

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Belfort vs Holyfield

 

Johnson - Fitz

Jones - Pazienza

Haugen - Mancini

Leonard - Camacho

Canelo - GGG 3

 

Yeah I knew why you listed this one soon as I saw it, and I’m in total agreement.

Keep in mind that Joe Walcott’s manager who engineered his revival was a straight-up mob guy … not a shady guy but one known to be thoroughly involved in organized crime.

In their second meeting, Ezz won over 15 rounds. He knocked Joe down for a nine-count. The scores were 80-70, 83-67 and 84-66. Not even close. No controversy. No reason to believe there should be a rematch.

Yet four months later, without Walcott having a single fight in between, there he is lined up for yet another title shot. His mob friends were handing them to him like candy canes on Christmas.

If Charles had knocked him out in 11 seconds in the third fight, rest assured there would have been a fourth to follow after that, and a fifth and a sixth … he was going to keep getting handed shots until he won it. I think Ezz saw the writing on the wall and did a little side business to hand it over.

 

I’d add Leonard-Norris.

 

Hi Guys.
This may not carry with everyone but, I feel Monzon / Napoles should have not got of the ground, you had a slightly past it smallish, cut prone aging WW, up against a colossus of a MW, who would tower above him, and had not tasted defeat for over a decade, I bow to no one in my admiration for Napoles, but this was a bridge too far as it turned out to be, Monzon must have had harder sparring than this fight, on topic, Paret / Fullmer was in a slightly similar vein, a big, immensely strong, bull like fighter in Fullmer, up against a natural born WW, who was noted as a fearless and attacking fighter, too brave for his own good, the closing rounds, do the corner men of Paret, and the ref no good, and makes for uncomfortable viewing, also a good body of thought has it that the beating lingered into the Griffith fight.

 

An ancient, overweight, slow as molasses Foreman vs Michael Moorer.

Ridiculous.

Hang on a sec….scratch that one.

 

Foreman - Young was terrible matchmaking by team Foreman ... George was on his was on a terrific comeback but then they match him w Young, a fighter they knew was a nightmare from a stylistic standpoint and stage it in a hot climate ? Foreman knew all about Young because he did commentary on one of his Lyle fights for network TV ... he knew exactly what he was getting into .. maybe the governing bodies forced it, I'm not sure but a bad match up for George .... another terrible match up was Norton, coming off the Holmes fight having to match up with Shavers .... again, maybe an alphabet play but a terrible road of most resistance ...

 

I’ve mentioned this a few times before, I think his team saw the writing on the wall and cashed out on him.

I can’t imagine them seeing his fight with Glenwood Brown and thinking that moving up in weight again to face Terry Norris would be a good idea. Cristano Espana was his mandatory and always going be an awful matchup, so I think they figured they would make a good payday against Norris before facing Espana

 

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