The Awkward Match-ups Thread...

[Goodnight, Irene]

No predictions really necessary, just post the fights no one would ever talk about.

Your awkward, your dull, your ungainly masses.

Here's a few to start...

Fres Oquendo vs. John Ruiz

Michael Grant vs. Nikolai Valuev

Jess Willard vs. Ken Norton

Primo Carnera vs. Hasim Rahman

Tony Galento vs. Eric Esch

[Jaywheel]

winky wright vs cory spinks
otis grant vs sven ottke
georges chuvalo vs zuri lawrence

[Goodnight, Irene]

Yeesh, Jay, thats just downright masochistic.

[Jaywheel]

What a card it would make. Top it off with Paulie Malignaggi vs Paul Spadafora.

[Goodnight, Irene]

What a card it would make. Top it off with Paulie Malignaggi vs Paul Spadafora.

Now you're just being ridiculous

[crusader]

No predictions really necessary, just post the fights no one would ever talk about.

Your awkward, your dull, your ungainly masses.

Here's a few to start...

Fres Oquendo vs. John Ruiz

Michael Grant vs. Nikolai Valuev

Jess Willard vs. Ken Norton

Primo Carnera vs. Hasim Rahman

Tony Galento vs. Eric Esch

This fight actually happened and sure enough no one talked about it.

[Goodnight, Irene]

You're shitt!n me!

Someone MADE that bout!?

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Andre Dirrell vs anyone
Byrd/Tubbs
Camacho/Starling

[Goodnight, Irene]

Just checked it out. Under, "Notes," its blank D

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Just checked it out. Under, "Notes," its blank D

It was grueling, Ruiz did knock him out late which keeps it from approaching Tubbs/Page territory as the worst fight of all time. But it was dreadful.

[Diamond WEAPON]

Cory Spinks vs. Paulie Malignaggi

Ivan Calderon vs. Luis Lazarte

[Goodnight, Irene]

I think this just made me sick...Hopkins vs. Holyfield at Heavy...today.

[AngryGoon38]

Randy Tex Cobb vs George Chuvalo
Tommy Hearns vs Ray Mercer
Carlos Baldomir vs Randy Shields
Leon Spinks vs Joe Hipp
Kelly Pavlik vs Antonio Tarver
Glenn Johnson vs Bennie Briscoe
Dwight Muhammed Quawi vs Tony Galento
Bert Cooper vs Scott LaDoux
Arturo Gatti vs Jim Watt

[Goodnight, Irene]

Michael Spinks vs...

Ingemar Johansson and 90's George Foreman.

Mike Tyson (2000) vs. Cassius Clay (1962).

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Glen Johnson vs Briscoe would be awesome.

[AngryGoon38]

Glen Johnson vs Briscoe would be awesome.

You know it !


Very 50/50 to me. All i can picture is a battle of wills to the fullest extent.


Listed as an Awkward match because it would be purely a war of attrition over being anything else.

[Goodnight, Irene]

Mayweather or Whitaker vs Wright at 154 would be cancer to the eyes.

[Goodnight, Irene]

I dont need to convince you of my appreciation of Sweet Pea, but I see him clashing horribly in this one.

[Ezzard]

Johnny Nelson v Beranrd Hopkins

[Datsue]

My dog there are some abominations in this thread. I think I felt something scurry up from the depths of my innards & try to throttle my brain, to blot out the pain, from just thinking about some of these.

[Diamond WEAPON]

I dont need to convince you of my appreciation of Sweet Pea, but I see him clashing horribly in this one.

i could see sweet pea lightin up the body against winky

You mean the elbows?

[Jaywheel]

Same here. The guys forearms are covering him from head to knees. I'd envision a dull fight.

[King Carlos]

Yeah, the body wasn't much of an option against Winky, and Whitaker didn't have the power to make a dent in him. Not to mention Whitaker was not terribly convincing at 154, in my opinion. He looked pudgy and was clearly too small for the weight class. Wright would probably win a close, boring decision.

[boxbible]

Among today's fighters, it's have to be Andre Ward vs Chad Dawson...

Chris John vs Guillermo Rigondeaux

Or even worse, Anselmo Moreno vs Eric Morel :(

[Diamond WEAPON]

Yeah, the body wasn't much of an option against Winky, and Whitaker didn't have the power to make a dent in him. Not to mention Whitaker was not terribly convincing at 154, in my opinion. He looked pudgy and was clearly too small for the weight class. Wright would probably win a close, boring decision.

They would be shaking their heads at each other non-stop, like "hah, your offense is futile against my mad defensive skillz!"