(List) The Best Fight That Could Happen in Each Weight Class

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  1. Beatle

    Beatle Sheer Analysis Full Member

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    Here is a list of the best fight that could happen in each weight class from welterweight to heavyweight. Not even one has happened, nor will it probably ever.


    Heavyweight: Wlad vs Fury (Wlad prefers to fight cab driver Alex Leapai, who has done nothing of note in boxing, rather than fight Fury for a huge payday)

    Cruiserweight: Yoan Pablo Hernandez vs Marco Huck (their common trainer said the fight will never happen)

    Light heavyweight: Stevenson vs Kovalev (Adonis wants no part of Kovalev)

    Super middleweight: Froch vs Groves 2 (Froch refuses to fight Groves again)

    Middleweight: Golovkin vs Martinez or Quillin (the top middleweights are all ducking GGG)

    Light middleweight: Saul Alvarez vs Erislandy Lara (Alvarez has been ducking Lara for years now)

    Welterweight: Mayweather vs Pacquiao (it's clear the promotors do not want this to happen)


    Now, at the lower weight classes, the best fights do happen:

    Light welterweight: Here the best fight actually happened (Garcia vs Matthysse).

    Lower divisions: Here the best fights also have happened, like Rigondeaux vs Donaire, Mikey Garcia vs Salido and JuanMa, and many others.
     
  2. jc

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    Wlad v Wilder.

    Hernandez v Huck

    Stevenson v Kovalev

    Froch v Groves 2

    Martinez v GGG

    Alvarez v Cotto

    Mayweather v PAC

    Garcia v Provodnikov

    Vasquez v Burns

    Garcia v Gamboa

    Salido v Lamanchenko

    Quigg v Frampton
     
  3. Beatle

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    Garcia-Provodnikov is a good fight, but Erislandy Lara would be a tougher fight for Alvarez than a fading Cotto.
     
  4. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    105: Takayama vs. Budler
    108: R. Gonzalez vs. Ioka
    112: Yaegashi vs. Segura
    115: Srisaket vs. Tepparith
    118: Moreno vs. Yamanaka
    122: Rigondeaux vs. Santa Cruz
    126: Jhonny vs. Salido
    130: Mendez vs. Miura
    135: Burns vs. DeMarco
     
  5. Collie

    Collie Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Fury - Perez
    YPH - Huck
    Kovalev - Stevenson
    Froch - Groves 2
    Ggg - Martinez
    Lara - Alvarez
    Mayweather - Pac
    Matthysse - Provodnikov
    Lw is v poor actually. Maybe Burns Crawford will be decent
    Gamboa - M Garcia
    Donaire - Mares
    Frampton - Santa Cruz