What Are the 5 best Woulda Shoulda fights that Coulda but weren't ?

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I know you're not asking me JT but here's my two cents.
This is detailed in the book Four Kings. I've read it but unfortunately my memory is lacking. I'll look it up tonight. I know there's a "faction" that believes Ray ducked Cuevas. I hardly think choosing to fight Duran instead is taking the easy way out. Ray and Mike Trainer generally (if not exclusively) went where there was more money to be made. Based on what Tommy Hearns and Duran did to Cuevas I don't think Ray would've had much trouble. I think it's pretty clear that Cuevas, although a very good champion, was the lesser of those 4 welterweights. I personally think Ray would have shown Cuevas' power due respect but would've picked him apart and gotten him out of there in the middle rounds.

 

Charley Burley vs. Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Leonartd vs. Aaron Pryor
Salvador Sanchez vs. Alexis Arguello
Tony Ayala, Jr. vs Roberto Duran
Larry Holmes vs. Greg Page

Here's some more:

Gene Tunney vs, Kid Norfolk
John L. Sullivan vs. Peter Jackson
Jack Dempsey vs. Harry Wills
Sam Langford vs. Jack Dempsey
Sam Langford vs. Jess Willard
Barbados Joe Walcott vs. Jim Corbett (he knocked Corbett down in sparring)

 

Yes. Then as now, it was regarded as a blatant robbery, on par with Whitaker-Chavez or Lewis-Holyfield.

I remember one writer who commented that if you didn't actually see the referee raise both hands (which signifies a draw) then you just assumed Armstrong was the new champ.

 

Hey cheers Natonic. I particularly like you choice of the word "faction".

:good

 

nick wells vs holmes III

 

SQ: Great call on Walcott/Moore ...

 

cheers for the describition

from what i saw about 25 min highlights Armstrong was getting the best of him but obviously Highlights can be made to make 1 fighter better or worse

also Garcia came up from Welterweight too didnt he

 

There's so many to list but these are the fights I would've like to see the most:

Sugar Ray Leonard vs Aaron Pryor
Mike McCallum vs Thomas Hearns
James Toney vs Bernard Hopkins
Larry Holmes vs George Foreman
Lennox Lewis vs Riddick Bowe

 

:rofl

 

What's funny about that?.

Francis was a damn good fighter when he ruined his shoulder.A fight ebtween him at that time and the young calzaghe would have been a great fight between two up and coming prospects ala Watson vs Benn.

 

Yeah, he was the top-rated welter contender for about 4 or 5 years straight, and in that time was blasting out almost every welter contender put in front of him. He just couldn't win the big one, against Ross and Armstrong - though some people speculate that it was the body beating he dealt to Ross that ruined him before Armstrong got to him.

After that he decided to try his luck at 160, and he twice beat an up-and-coming Lloyd Marshall, which earned him a shot at Apostoli. Apostoli was red hot then and no one thought a "blown up welter" could take him - but Garcia proved them wrong.

 

so garcia was a decent fighter aswell

 

This is one i wanted to see just as Ike got injured. I actually thought at the time ( 98 ) Ike would have beaten Tito

 

i think it would have been a very even fight too, tito was a beast and ike was a beast. their fights with vargas and dlh really show how style make fights and i couldent make a very accurate prediction.

but i thought that ike was physically stronger and had that great jab, i think ike could have won at points at his best at welter.... however i cant help but think about how ike got wobbled by jose luis lopez.