Some Great Fights That Should Have Happened But Never Did

[AngryGoon38]

Cooney-Coetzee

Cooney-Weaver

Cooney-Cobb

Cooney-Tate

Cooney-Bruno

Coetzee-Berbick

Roberto Duran-Doug DeWitt

Nino LaRocca-Wilfredo Benitez

Juan Roldan- John Mugabi

Ibeabuchi-Holyfield

Ibeabuchi-Tyson

Ike's last fight was in 99 v. Byrd; don't know exactly when he got arrested, but when should the Holy and Tyson fights have happened?
Mike got that suspension after the munchies incident in June 1997. Holyfield and Lewis tied up 99.
I guess you'd have preferred Holy/Ike instead of Holy/Bean and Tyson/Ike instead of Tyson/Botha; that is about the only time, given suspensions and arrests, that Mike and Ike could've fought.

Yup. Just what you said.

Some more...

*Quarry-Chuvalo II
*Rueban Castillo-Danny Lopez
*Tony Chiaverini-Rocky Mattioli
*Marcus Geraldo-Vito Anterfermo
*Bernardo Mercado-Tex Cobb
* Peralta-Chuvalo
* Butterbean-Savarese

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Savarese would've beaten Butterbean easily. Bean squeaked by ("prime" Bean) against Harry Funmaker. The ultimate hype job...and hog job.

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Breland/Honeygan in 87 or 88.

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Carlos Gonzalez v. Coggi.
Carlos Gonzalez v. Charles Murray.
Padilla/Coggi.
Padilla/Murray.

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Guzman/Valero

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I'll put this one here even though I don't agree with it:
McGuigan/Gomez
I don't think it could've happened because the Gomez/Lockridge winner was ordered to fight Layne next. Gomez did and lost.

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Judah v. Sharmba Mitchell

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Jeff Lampkin v. Nate Miller.

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Holmes/Witherspoon II
Spinks/Witherspoon

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Qawi/Mustafa

[AngryGoon38]

Judah v. Sharmba Mitchell

That would be great. Surprised i didnt think of that one.

How about...

*Pazienza-Bronco McKart

*Pazienza-Bryant Brannon

*Pazienza-Jorge "Locomotora" Castro

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Judah v. Sharmba Mitchell

That would be great. Surprised i didnt think of that one.

How about...

*Pazienza-Bronco McKart

*Pazienza-Bryant Brannon

*Pazienza-Jorge "Locomotora" Castro

When were Paz and McKart in the same weightclass? McKart was still a jr. middle v. Mundine, right?

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Seldon/Morrison

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Narvaez/Arce

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Tucker/Bruno

[BenHistorian]

What match-ups could have happened that unfortunately didn't? The Mayweather-Pacquiao mess has got me thinking.
Frazier-Norton? Foreman-Shavers? Lewis-Bowe?

[Adamj1987]

zale vs lamotta

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Hopkins- Toney would of been a very interesting middleweight bout

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Hopkins- Toney would of been a very interesting middleweight bout

James was done at middle after the McCallum rematch in August 1992. He had a very hard time making weight.
RJJ and B-Hop fought for his vacant title.
By the time Toney/Hopkins would've been interesting at middle, James was gone from the division.
Hopkins was a virtual unknown during Toney's rather brief reign at middle.

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zale vs lamotta

That fight probably would have happened if it wasn't for world War II. Probably would have been a great fight. They still could have fought in 1946-1948, though Zale was slowing down by that point.

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Austin/Ayala

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Sahaprom/Ayala
(Ayala lost a TD to Sahaprom victim Tatsuyoshi before Sahaprom took the title.)
Sahaprom/Tapia

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Ayala v. Adan Vargas.
Sahaprom/Moya

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Austin/Konadu
Konadu/Tatsuyoshi
Austin/Tatsuyoshi

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Sahaprom/Vorapin