Some Great Fights That Should Have Happened But Never Did

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Contreras/Canizales
Contreras/Jibaro Perez

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Hopkins/Simon (Simon won the WBO middle belt and would've I think provided a stiffer test than DLH did)
Simon's another wasted talent.

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Miguel Vazquez v. Brandon Rios unification.

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Panama Al Brown vs. Sixto Escobar: 1934

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Davis/Breland II

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Meldrick Taylor v. Glenwood Brown II. I'd much rather have seen that than the utter disaster that was Norris/Taylor. Taylor/Brown I was good stuff.

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McKinney/Morales unification after Kennedy beat Jones.

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Bungu unifications with:
Barrera
Jones
Morales

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MAB/JMM at feather in 01-03. Shame they fought so late into their careers, though they both performed well.

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Liles/Collins
Liles/Calzaghe
Liles/Ottke

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JMM/Guerrero at lightweight.

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Charles Murray/Rafael Pineda or Loreto Garza.
These were scheduled, but Pineda and Garza withdrew with injuries. Instead, we got Murray/Hooper on the Ferguson/Mercer II PPV.
Too bad Murray turned in that stinker v. Rodriguez on ESPN a few months later. Given that he was with TR, he had a bright future ahead of him, especially since JCC was on the decline.

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Larios/Vazquez IV at 122 instead of Larios/Pacquiao

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Galindez/Rossman III instead of Galindez/Johnson; the first two fights were excellent.

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Nishioka/Caballero.
Nishioka/Juanma.

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Vargas/Reid. Winner should've fought Tito. Instead, he basically wrecked both of them within a year. (Well, Vargas gave Oscar a tough go, but he was done after that.)

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Zapata/Chitalada
Bassa/Chitalada

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Purely from a British perpesctive I'm staggered no-one's mentioned Sibson v Graham or McGuigan v Cruz in England at normal temperatures and without Barney (kiss of death) Eastwood's input.(Allegedly).

Was always disappointed at that one, has the first half, of the first fight showed McGuigan clearly capable of handling Cruz handily.

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Duran v Julian Jackson 1990

Mclellan V Jones Jnr 1994

Hearns v Nunn 1989

Collins v Calzaghe 1997

Sugar Ray Leonard v Nigel Benn 1990

Mike Weaver v Tyson 1986
Tim Witherspoon v Tyson 1987

Roberto Duran v Nigel Benn 1990

Holyfield v Morrison 1995

Carl Williams v Tyrell Biggs 87

Lloyd Honeyghan v Wilfred benitez 1986

Weren't Duran and Leonard retired in 90?
And Wilf was way past it by 86; he stayed around way too long, sadly.

Unfortunatly no duran was around til the 2000s

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Purely from a British perpesctive I'm staggered no-one's mentioned Sibson v Graham or McGuigan v Cruz in England at normal temperatures and without Barney (kiss of death) Eastwood's input.(Allegedly).

Was always disappointed at that one, has the first half, of the first fight showed McGuigan clearly capable of handling Cruz handily.

I had McGuigan/Cruz even after 8 and didn't think he was handling Cruz handily at all. Also, McGuigan took...what...two years off after that fight.

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Duran v Julian Jackson 1990

Mclellan V Jones Jnr 1994

Hearns v Nunn 1989

Collins v Calzaghe 1997

Sugar Ray Leonard v Nigel Benn 1990

Mike Weaver v Tyson 1986
Tim Witherspoon v Tyson 1987

Roberto Duran v Nigel Benn 1990

Holyfield v Morrison 1995

Carl Williams v Tyrell Biggs 87

Lloyd Honeyghan v Wilfred benitez 1986

Weren't Duran and Leonard retired in 90?
And Wilf was way past it by 86; he stayed around way too long, sadly.

Unfortunatly no duran was around til the 2000s

I know, and Leonard was around till 97, but they didn't fight in 90. I know Leonard came out of retirement for Norris; did Duran unretire for Lawlor?

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Morrison/Purity II

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Holyfield/Mercer II
Lewis/Mercer II

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Johnston/Bazan III
Castillo/Johnston III

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De Leon/Qawi.