Your 25 Top Fantasy Fights!

hey bro we accidentally put together 8 interesting hypotheticals lol

 

Joey Giardello should be disgusted that he's turned traitor on us italians

 

I am humbled by your words, Morlocks

I enjoyed imagining what kind of hyperviolence those rules would bring on the fights as well. I hate it when fights are prematurely stopped, whether it be because of a DQ, a cut or a couple knockdowns. Let a champion go out on his shield.

Edit: I especially enjoyed imagining what Battling Nelson would do to "pretty boy" Floyd in those rough conditions, considering Mayweather usually just whines until all of the rules go his way

 

25. Evander Holyfield vs Oleksander Usyk (For GOAT CW)
24. Hector Camacho vs Emanuel Augustus (battle of the fast swinging dancing clowns)
23. Arturro Gatti vs Michael Katsidis (Battle of the who swells up 1st match)
22. Carlos Monzon vs Marvin Hagler (Battle for BEST MW ever)
21. Bob Foster vs Michael Moorer (Moorer was all KOs at LHW, whose chin fails 1st?)
20. Jorge Arce vs Johnny Tapia (2 guys who smile while thrashing foes)
19. James Toney vs Bernard Hopkins (strategic match)
18. Jack Dempsey vs Rocky Marciano (Bruising fight here folks)
17. Tex Cobb vs Bert Cooper (shootout fest) titles not needed to see this!
16. Julian Jackson vs Tommy Hearns (battle of the 1punch KO artists)
15. Rocky Marciano vs Joe Frazier (Till death due them Part)
14. Manny Pacqiuo vs Aaron Pryor (battle of the uncountable punchstat-fest)
13. Alexis Arguello vs Vasyl Lomachenko (tall & skilled vs short & skilled-reach matters?)
12. Jake Lamotta vs Marvin Hagler (Battle of the whose head breaks the other guy's hands)
11. Paul Williams vs Floyd Mayweather (@WW I think quantity outweighs quality, Floyd loses)
10. Pernell whitaker vs Terrence Crawford (Crawford is that good to me, match em up)
9. JCC vs Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico's finest)
8. Ray Robinson vs Floyd Mayweather (For the Ultimate Chess Match)
7. Manny Pacquiao vs Edwin Valero (doesn't make it 12 rounds)
6. Mike Tyson vs Joe Frazier (SMall heavies with heavy work rate)
5. Gerald McCellan vs Roy Jones Jr.
4. Cassius Clay/Ali vs Jack Johnson (Ali that beat Williams & JJ that won title, man!)
3. Roberto Duran vs Edwin Valero some fouls may occur, but no one falls)
2. Ray Robinson vs Charley Burley (Battle of Sweet Science)
1. Mike Tyson vs David Tua (Greatest KO in HW history occurs in this one)


Took about a 1/2 hour

 

1. Roberto Duran vs Henry Armstrong
2. Roberto Duran vs Jose Napoles
3. Fighting Harada vs Jung Koo Chang
4. Fighting Harada vs Midget Wolgast
5. Joichiro Tatsuyoshi vs Hozumi Hasegawa
6. Jung Koo Chang vs Myung Woo Yuh
7. Freddie Steele vs Mickey Walker
8. Jimmy Wilde vs Miguel Canto
9. Roberto Duran vs Kid Gavilan
10. Tony Canzoneri vs Henry Armstrong
11. Tony Canzoneri vs Roberto Duran
12. Roberto Duran vs Ike Williams
13. Jack Dempsey vs Rocky Marciano
14. Harry Greb vs Marvin Hagler
15. Ruben Olivares vs Eder Jofre
16. Roman Gonzalez vs Jung Koo Chang
17. Ruben Olivares vs Terry McGovern
18. John L Sullivan vs Jim Jefferies
19. Fighting Harada vs Roman Gonzalez
20. Vasyl Lomachenko vs Tony Canzoneri
21. Dwight Qawi / Braxton vs Archie Moore
22. Salvador Sanchez vs Vicente Saldivar
23. Salvador Sanchez vs Henry Armstrong
24. Salvador Sanchez vs Alexis Arguello
25. Salvador Sanchez vs Eusebio Pedroza

Bonus:
Kid Chocolate vs Flash Elorde at 130

 

Those Duran fights would've been epic. Can;t believe I didnt get Armstrong in...considering he's one of my favs LOL!
Sanchez vs Arguello a buffet here. Boxing, brawling, inside game outside. Watching the crouching Qawi & Moorer, I think Archie is a bit smarter, edges him out in an ebb n flow battle. And who doesn't want to see Dempsey vs. Marciano!?!?

Jung Koo Chang is mentioned twice here, must be a favorite of yours? His style?

Freddie Steel vs Micky Walker-- what does this fight look like from your perspective. Can't say I've seen much if any of these two, just articles.

 

Yeah, to be honest there is way more than 25 to mention IMO!

Jung Koo Chang is one of my favourites. He was the dominant light Fly champ in the 80s. An extremely dynamic swarmer, with exceptional talent and instincts, who could also box offbeat on the back foot. A bit like young Duran. There's Been plenty of threads on him. Look them up if you wanna learn about him. There's plenty of film aswell. Best ever at 108 IMO.

As for Walker vs Steele, I have described it before, and similar with Lamotta etc, so I won't write too much. Steele, even for such a great, classical boxer and mover, seemed to struggle stylistically against (really) skilled crouching fighters ala Apostoli (though he was past prime and injured) . The definition of Walker. However, Steele would also move around and counter him brilliantly, and was as tough as they come. Peak for peak, I choose Steele. But its one of those bouts where Walker wins atleast one in a series IMO.

 

I'll tell you now, Philly won.

 

I was gonna put this at number 1 as well

 

I hope this one gets recorded

Oh my lord what a monstrosity

 

There's an entire thread on it, with a few gems in it although finding them is virtually impossible due to the rest of **** that went on in there.

A bump might cause some decent discussion actually

 

As much as I enjoy the idea of fantasy matchups between fighters from different eras, I'm always more intrigued by fights that could have happened but didn't so I'm limiting my 25 to those. And I make no apology for the heavy slanting towards the 90s (the era I grew up and fell in love with boxing)!

My top 25 fights that could have happened but didn't:

-Charley Burley v Eddie Booker, Middleweight (1943)
-Sugar Ray Robinson v Charley Burley, Welterweight/Middleweight (1943-46)
-Jake LaMotta v Rocky Graziano, Middleweight (1945-47)
-Archie Moore v Sugar Ray Robinson, light heavyweight (1952/53)
-Rocky Marciano v Floyd Patterson, Heavyweight (1956)
-Flash Elorde v Vicente Saldivar, jnr lightweight (1965/66)
-Roberto Duran v Antonio Cervantes, Jnr Welterweight (1975)
-Pipino Cuevas v Carlos Palomino, welterweight (1977/78)
-Roberto Duran v Alexis Arguello, Lightweight (1978)
-Danny Lopez v Wilfredo Gomez, Featherweight (1979)
-Lupe Pintor v Jeff Chandler, Bantamweight (1982)
-Salvador Sanchez v Eusebio Pedroza, Featherweight (1982/83)
-Thomas Hearns v Mike McCallum, jnr middleweight (1985/86)
-Julio Cesar Chavez v Azumah Nelson, jnr lightweight (1987)
-James Toney v Julian Jackson, Middleweight (1992)
-Lennox Lewis-Riddick Bowe, Heavyweight (1993)
-Michael Carbajal v Ricardo Lopez, jnr flyweight (1993/94)
-Chiquita Gonzalez v Ricardo Lopez, jnr flyweight (1993/94)
-Roy Jones v Gerald McClellan, super middleweight (1995/96)
-Felix Trinidad v Terry Norris, jnr middleweight (1996)
-Oscar De La Hoya v Kostya Tszyu, jnr welterweight (1996/97)
-Felix Trinidad v Ike Quartey, welterweight (1995-98)
-Yuri Arbachakov v Mark Johnson, flyweight (1995)
-Johnny Tapia v Mark Johnson, jnr bantamweight (1998)
-Roy Jones v Darius Michalczewski (1998/99)

A few bonus fights that did happen but not at the perfect time:

-Matthew Saad Muhammad v Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, light heavyweight (1981)
-Marvin Hagler v Sugar Ray Leonard, Middleweight (1983)
-Julio Cesar Chavez v Hector Camacho, junior lightweight (1985)
-Mike Tyson v Evander Holyfield, Heavyweight (1991)
-Roy Jones v Bernard Hopkins, light heavyweight (2002)
-Manny Pacquiao v Floyd Mayweather, welterweight (2010)

 

Oh bollocks, I left off Mancini-Pryor (1984). They were probably both past their primes by that point, but who cares - would have been tremendous!

 

Marciano v Frazier
Ali v Tyson
Marciano v Dempsey
Hopkins v Hagler
Archie Moore v Holyfield
Mayweather v Duran
Mayweather v SRL
Liston v Foreman
Marciano v Foreman
Marciano v Ali
Marciano v Wlad
Marciano v Holyfield
Frazier v Holyfield
Ali v Lewis
Ali v Holmes
Foreman v Holmes
Baer v foreman
Marciano v Liston
Tyson v Foreman
Walcott v Moore
Walcott v Holmes
Walcott v Lewis
Charles v Holyfield
Louis v Ali
Louis v Bowe

 

All this makes me want to dig out my old Fight Night PlayStation games.