Fights that should've happened that didn't

by dmdm on Jan 6, 2012 2:32 AM EST

With all the will they, won't they of the Pacquiao-Mayweather negotiations, it got me to wondering of previous times when fights really should've happened but never got off the ground.

What fights would you have liked to have seen, that were just never made.

(I mean legit fights that could have potentially happened, not fantasy match ups ie Tyson vs Ali, etc.)

I couldn't find a thread that had discussed this recently, so apologies if I'm rehashing some tired debate.

I remember back in the day when I first got into boxing in the UK, Prince Naseem Hamed was the top dog, and a fight with Erik Morales was mooted but never happened after Marco Antonio Barrerra exploded the Naz myth.

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Hagler-Leonard with both men at their peaks. No idea how it would have gone, but it would have been very different, and, I think, a little more emphatic/less controversial.

by El Destruyo on Jan 6, 2012 10:14 AM EST reply actions

I feel your sentiment may describe Manny Floyd in a couple of years

Would the result have been different if the yhad fought sooner (Assuming they do eventually fight)

by Sweet science on Jan 6, 2012 12:54 PM EST up reply actions

Bowe-Lewis. I’m just curious, and boxing would have been better off without that belt getting thrown in the garbage.

by El Destruyo on Jan 6, 2012 10:15 AM EST reply actions

bhop jones before 2005, juanma gamboa, marquez morales

"According to all the laws of aerodynamics the bumble-bee should not fly, but the bumble-bee does not know this and so flies anyway."

by cylee1180 on Jan 6, 2012 2:24 PM EST reply actions

Marquez-Morales always coms to my head as a fight that should have happened, and they both were promoted by top rank in their primes.

by 36_chambers_ofdeatH on Jan 6, 2012 4:07 PM EST up reply actions

Yes, most definitely.

One fight I would make happen if I could turn back and alter the the course of boxing time!

by Phill on Jan 7, 2012 12:33 PM EST up reply actions

Pryor/Duran would've been nice.

Wear something sexy to my funeral.

by Pops Daniels on Jan 6, 2012 4:08 PM EST reply actions

Mike Mccallum versus any of the big four( Duran, Hagler, Hearns, Leonard).

by 36_chambers_ofdeatH on Jan 6, 2012 4:09 PM EST reply actions

Speaking of Naseem, a fight with Gatti was mooted for quite a while and would have been very good.

Looking back when they retire, a lot of people will say that Klitschko/Klitschko should have happened.

by gravydeath on Jan 6, 2012 4:15 PM EST reply actions

I actually posted this after watching a clip on youtube of Gatti trying to talk up a Naseem fight. It would have been a crazy clash of styles.

by dmdm on Jan 6, 2012 7:28 PM EST up reply actions

Lewis/Vitali II
RJJ/Michaelczewski
Mayweather/Casamayor maybe (2002ish @ SFW?)

by Shitali Klitschko on Jan 7, 2012 1:07 AM EST via mobile reply actions

Tyson/Lewis but when they were both in their prime.

by JT64 on Jan 7, 2012 8:31 AM EST reply actions

I would have equally loved to have choppy video of their sparring sessions when they were young. It’s said that Lewis had Tyson’s number at the time.

by El Destruyo on Jan 7, 2012 11:25 PM EST up reply actions

Pacquiao-Guzman

Why dont we ever see the headline "Psychic
wins lottery" in the newspapers?

by sick frank on Jan 7, 2012 10:31 AM EST reply actions

Hagler-Hearns II

Jack Dempsey-Jack Johnson

by mrmojorisin on Jan 7, 2012 11:42 AM EST reply actions

Dempsey wouldn’t ever fight a black person, made it a point to say so. His racism was part of his appeal.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else--James Thurber, 1939

by BoxAnne on Jan 8, 2012 9:55 AM EST up reply actions

Calzaghe v Benn would have been a corker too, if Joe had arrived say, three years earlier.

by Phill on Jan 7, 2012 12:36 PM EST reply actions

Yes, I think Calzaghe vs any number of American fighters he didn’t fight by remaining in the UK

by dmdm on Jan 9, 2012 5:46 AM EST up reply actions

Or even Froch Calzaghe, but that may have scuppered Frochies chances in the Super Duper Six.

by Phill on Jan 7, 2012 12:37 PM EST reply actions

I'm relatively young......

……but for me, I would’ve liked to have seen Naz/JMM. I would’ve like to how Marquez would’ve reacted to Naz and his unorthodox style. He might have even done better than MAB did. But who knows, either way, thats my pick.

by Cestus84 on Jan 10, 2012 12:01 PM EST reply actions