Greatest match that never came off..?

Very good choices, mate. These ones in particular interest me and would be fancinating fights I think.

 

Yeah HJ, some serious stylistic matchups in that lot mate. Some can't have been far off fruition either.

 

Unfortunately they could have NEVER met on equal prime v prime terms.
A 78 Saad could never face an 83 Spinks so any result had they fought wouldn't have really meant anything.

 

If they fought before Qawi finished Saad it would have meant loads. The loss to Qawi was quite a shock. They were actually going to fight but Qawi ruined things, to say the least.

Admittedly Saad peaked substancially earlier but tho there were worries nobody predicted his sudden demise. Maybe Qawi would have always been a bad match for him.

 

The obvious ones.
Sullivan Jackson
Jeffries Johnson [prime Jeff]
Johnson Langford[at heavy]
Dempsey Wills
Tunney Sharkey /Tunney Godfrey
Robinson Burley
Pedroza Sanchez
Conteh Galindez
Nelson Mcguigan
McCallum Leonard /Hearns/Hagler
Holmes Thomas/Coetzee
Bowe Lewis
Lewis Tyson [prime]
Bowe Tyson

 

You said it right there...

In 1993 this fight was a natural.. Lewis beat Tucker on points to take WBC , and Bowe had the rest of the titles, rather than fight Holyfield in a rematch in November 1993 , Lewis v Bowe should have appeared in Vegas, with the winner maybee fighting the challenger Moorer next.. Evander seemed to get rematches all over the place, Evander rematched Stewart, Moorer , Bowe, Lewis, Tyson, Qwawi.. Hell Evander rematched everyone.........

 

...except Bert Cooper.

 

Floyd Patterson vs Harold Johnson while Floyd was heavyweight champ
Luis Manuel Rodriguez vs Jose Napoles in 1965
Joe Walcott vs Tommy Ryan in 1901

 

Had Saad fought Mike instead of Qawi at that time it would have simply been Mike instead of Qawi that would have caused his ''sudden demise'' IMHO. Saad had just been thru too many wars by that point. Six+ years of taking numerous devastating shots from several champs and contenders. :shock:

 

Just for it being a possible war, Hatton-Gatti.
I remember it being very possible until Gatti lost to Baldomir.

 

I think those Greg Page tapes are getting to your head mate. :good

 

Duran-Arguello

 

Tyson-Foreman.

From what I heard, it was nearly a done deal.

 

Saad Mohammad-Scott
Holmes-Weaver=Unification match
Cuevas-Palomino
Hearns-Benn
Arguello-Duran
Sanchez-Chavez at 130.
Mando Ramos-Rudolfo Gonzalez
Michael Spinks-Holyfield = 195.