Your Top TenFights That Could/ Should Have Happened?

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  1. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Fights that could have happened between boxers, but for one reason or another never did. Matches that happened pre-prime/post prime, are not eligible, they must be matches that never happened at any stage.
    Here we go.

    Dempsey v Wills
    Lewis v Bowe
    Conteh v Galindez
    Nelson v McGuigan
    Burley v Robinson
    Pedroza v Sanchez
    Tyson v Tua
    Kovalev v Stevenson
    Duran v Pryor
    Duran v Arguello
    Hearns v McCallum
     
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  2. SheenLantern

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    Hagler vs Benitez
    De La Hoya vs Wright
    Mosley vs Trinidad
    Hopkins vs Toney
    Tyson vs Foreman
     
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  3. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Outstanding list, Mac. Cheers.
     
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  4. Gatekeeper

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    Holyfield vs Tyson 1991
    Tyson vs Foreman
    Benn vs Hearns 1990
    Benn vs Julian Jackson
    Hamed vs Morales
    Roy Jones vs Wlad/Vitali after he beat Ruiz
    Floyd vs Tszyu
    Floyd vs Golovkin
    Floyd vs Pac 2009
    Lewis vs Vitali rematch
     
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  5. The Undefeated Lachbuster

    The Undefeated Lachbuster On the Italian agenda Full Member

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    Lewis vs Bowe/Ike
    Dempsey vs Wills
    Marciano vs Patterson/Ingo
    Walcott vs Moore
    Gerald McClellan vs Roy Jones Jr
    Pryor vs Duran
    Jeffries vs Johnson 1904
    Sharkey vs Tunney
    Valero vs Pacquiao
    LaMotta vs Graziano

    Bonus round!
    Fury/Wilder vs AJ
     
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  6. PhillyPhan69

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    Chang vs Yuh
    Chandler vs Pintor
    Holmes vs Foreman
    McCallum vs Hearns
    Pryor vs SRL
    Chavez vs Sanchez
    Sanchez vs Pedroza
    Hopkins vs Toney
    Eubank vs RJJ
    Lewis vs Bowe
     
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  7. mcvey

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    You can't have Lewis v Vitali.

    "they must be matches that never happened at any stage."
     
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  8. mcvey

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    You cant have Johnson v Jeffries.

    "Matches that happened pre-prime/post prime, are not eligible, they must be matches that never happened at any stage."
    That's three posts I have pointed this out to.
    There seems a marked lack of reading comprehension here today!
     
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  9. Gatekeeper

    Gatekeeper Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Ah, yes, I missed that bit, oops. Alright I'll replace Lewis vs Vitali with McGregor vs Malignaggi.
     
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  10. PhillyPhan69

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    Floyd vs Pac as well
    And Holyfield vs Tyson unless I misunderstood the thread
     
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  11. ChrisJS

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    Marquez-Morales (surprised nobody mentioned this yet)

    Jofre-Olivares in the 70s (neither as great as at bantam but would have been fun and was close to happening)

    Trinidad-Mosley (when both were unbeaten)

    Trinidad-Quartey (same)

    Toney-Hopkins (was supposed to happen at 190 before Hopkins ducked it and Toney went to Heavyweight)

    Toney-Tarver

    Sanchez-Pedroza

    Famechon-Winstone

    Tiger-Rodriguez

    Ortiz-Napoles (at 135 or 140)
     
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  12. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    Lewis vs Bowe
    Foreman Vs Shavers
    Frazer vs Norton
    Lewis vs Ike
    Vitali vs Wlad
    Pryor vs Duran
    Toney vs Hopkins
    Benn vs Jackson
    Stevenson vs Kovalev
    Patterson vs Charles
     
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  13. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Patterson vs Charles is on my dream fight list, I’m just not sure it was ever a viable option? What year would you envision this happening?

    53-54 seems to early for Floyd and 55-56 seems to late for Charles?
     
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  14. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    You are correct.TBH. I thought I had laid it out clearly enough!
     
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  15. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Well you did underline it....perhaps bold or add red as the font color as well lol
     
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