The most intriguing fight that never happened? take a pick

I'm gonna go old school with this one and choose:

John L. Sullivan vs Peter Jackson

 

Shane Mosley v. Orzubek Nazarov at lightweight

 

From the OP's list, I'd take Mosley-Trinidad, that would have been an awesome fight.

Lewis-Bowe prime for prime would have also been interesting, and Tyson-Bowe in 91 or Bowe-Mercer would have been too.

Chavez-Nelson at 130 or 135 would have been good, although I think Chavez would have been too much for the Professor.

 

Good pick.

 

Trinidad vs Prime Whitaker
Quartey vs Whitaker
Mayweather vs Williams
Mayweather vs Prime Cotto
Mayweather vs Margarito
Mayweather vs Prime Mosley
Maywather vs Pacquiao

 

Not sure they ever fought in the same division at the same time.

 

Joe Calgazhe v Sven Ottke
Roy Jones v Dariusz Michalczewski
James Toney v Antonio Tarver
a young Andrew Golota v a young Vitali Klitschko
Brandon Rios v Edwin Valero

 

I would have love to have seen Mayweather against a prime Mosley. That would have been scintillating

 

I'm still angry at Arum for letting Gamboa vs Lopez die like that.

See fights like Bradley vs Alexander, Groves vs DeGale, might have not lived up to their hype, but at least we saw them and we saw what happened. No matter how boring a fight is between two good up and coming undefeated fighters is, I still want to see it. At least we can say we saw it, and saw the outcome and we don't have to ponder on why a fight between two young fighters didn't happen.

We can not say we saw Gamboa vs Lopez at the peak of their hype and both undefeated, thanks Bob. I honestly don't see Gamboa having a bigger undefeated rival than Lopez anymore. Sure Uchiyama is dangerous, but he doesn't have that crazy(in a good way) Puerto Rican fanbase hyping him up. The Gamboa vs Broner and Rios hype was okay, but those guys were way too big and again, just didn't have the vibe that Gamboa vs Lopez was creating.

If you go back to 2009-early 2011, there were countless threads being made "What fight would you like to see most?" There were 3 fights that would pop up unanimously in almost every one's posts, Mayweather vs Pacquiao, Wladimir Klitschko vs David Haye, and Yuriokis Gamboa vs Juan Manuel Lopez. Those were like the top 3 fights right there that boxing fans wanted to see. It's no coincidence that the first and third fights didn't happen and both had Bob Arum involved. Bob Arum=Cancer of boxing.

 

Kelly Pavlik v Arthur Abraham
Kelly Pavlik v Carl Froch

 

I have something like 20 fights of Chang and 15 of Woo.
Also theres footage of them on youtube check them out when you have the time John you wont regret it, both were tremendous fighters and were hardly ever in a bad fight, they had deals with different korean Tv channels(Chang with KBS and Woo with MBC) thats why a fight between them didnt happen another reason was cause the Koreans thought it was better having two world champions than having only one, it was probably better cause both ended up having great careers and both are inducted in the Boxing Hall Of Fame although Chang is considered by most as the superior fighter of the two.

 

How the **** did I forget this?atsch

 

Vitali-Lewis II

I say this because Bowe-Tyson, Bowe-Lewis, Pac-May, etc...all are pretty easy to guess the outcome with near certainty.

A Vitali-Lewis rematch would have been bananas.

 

JMM vs Hamed.

 

You've definitely whet my appetite ta see both, b