Name your top 3 fights for 2026

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  1. ipitythefool

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    What fights do you most want to see in 2026 ? Any division. Not necessarily best v best fights. Just fighters you enjoy watching who would make a good match up.

    Mine (in no particular order).

    1. Inoue v Ball
    2. Opetaia v Ramirez
    3. Benevidez v Bivol or Bebertiev
     
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    Inoue Ball would be a good one, wee Ball just doesn’t stop punching
     
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    Yes and Ball has a good chin and is naturally stronger than Inoue. Would be a cracker.
     
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    Opetaia vs. Benavidez
    Usyk vs. Kabayel
    Inoue vs. Nakatani
     
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    Usyk vs Kabayel
    Ball vs Inoue
    Ennis vs Ortiz
     
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    Wardley vs. Kabayel

    Usyk vs. winner of Wardley vs. Kabayel

    Opetaia vs. winner of Ramirez vs. Benavidez

    Runners-up: Opetaia vs. Mikaelian, Benavidez vs. Bivol, AJ vs. Fury

    Fights no one wants to see: Usyk vs. Wilder, Wilder vs. anyone, Tetteh vs. anyone.....
     
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    Triple Bs - Bivol/Beterbiev/Benavidez - any combination suits me fine, though I think Beterbiev vs Benavidez would be a real battle of relentlessness and will. Who takes the backward step?

    Inoe vs Nakatani.
     
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    I reckon Tetteh will be wheeled out to face Johnny Bosh Fisher. It's inevitable
     
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    Usyk vs Jalolov
    Ramirez vs Rozicki
    Beterbiev vs Khataev
     
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    Ennis - Murtazaliev
    Benavidez - Opetaia
    Inoue - Espinoza
     
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    No particular order.

    Lopez vs. Haney
    Stevenson vs. Davis
    Usyk vs. Itauma
     
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    Inoue vs Espinoza
    Bam vs Nakatani
    Lopez vs Stevenson
    Boots vs Someone
    Usyk vs Kayabel
     
    George Crowcroft, Dec 25, 2025
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