Naming The Best Fights That Never Happened

[HyacinthusTurnipseed]

Gamboa vs JM Lopez
Johnson vs Langford II

[Baby Face Finster]

Marcel Cerdan - Jake LaMotta II
Marcel Cerdan - Sugar Ray Robinson
Marcel Cerdan - Charley Burley
Charley Burley - Sugar Ray Robinson
Mike McCallum - Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Mike McCallum - Sugar Ray Leonard
Mike McCallum - Thomas Hearns
Roy Jones Jr. - Bernard Hopkins II (right after Hopkins beat Trinidad)
Roy Jones Jr. - Graciano Rocchigiani
Roy Jones Jr. - Dariusz Michalczewski
Roy Jones Jr. - Steve Collins
Roy Jones Jr. - Vasilliy Jirov
Felix Trinidad - Ike Quartey
Floyd Mayweather Jr. - Vernon Forrest (Around 2002)
Floyd Mayweather Jr. - Shane Mosley (Same as above)
Floyd Mayweather Jr. - Manny Pacquiao (2009)
Riddick Bowe - Mike Tyson (Around 1992)
Riddick Bowe - Lennox Lewis (Same as above)
Joe Calzaghe - Bernard Hopkins (2006)

[davie]

I'd have loved to see Prince Naseem carry on to fight Morales, Pacquiao, JMM, Floyd and Barrera again.
I'd have loved to know how good he really was in an era of great featherweights/SFWs

[Nile4000]

Hilario Zapata vs Yoko Guishiken
Lupe Pintor vs Jeff Chandler
Wilfredo Gomez vs Jeff Chandler
Eusebio Pedroza vs Wilfredo Gomez
Salvador Sanchez vs Eusebio Pedroza
Edwin Rosario vs Hilmer Kenty.
Cornelius Boza Edwards vs Salvador Sanchez
Howard Davis Jr. vs Hilmer Kenty
Aaron Pryor vs Saoul Mamby
Milton McCrory Marlon Starling
Antonio Cervantes vs Roberto Duran.
Davey Moore vs Thomas Hearns
Marbin Hagler vs Rodrigo Valdez
Bob Foster vs John Conteh
Bob Foster vs Victor Galindez
Michael Dokes vs Greg Page
Mike Weaver vs Leon Spinks.

[Taansend]

mayweather v hamed

Funny but I never remember this being rumoured although I was drunk a lot at the time

[Taansend]

Finbar McGuigan v Jeff Fenech. In the stadium immediately after Aussie Rules played the Gaelic Football boys.

[RScarf1]

Ricky Hatton vs. Micky Ward

[Jip]

Tyson vs Ali
Jones Jr vs McClellan
GGG vs Hagler
Robinson vs Leonard
Trinidad vs Hearns
Pacquiao vs Valero
Hamed vs Lomachenko

and many more....

[Taansend]

Tyson vs Ali
Jones Jr vs McClellan
GGG vs Hagler
Robinson vs Leonard
Trinidad vs Hearns
Pacquiao vs Valero
Hamed vs Lomachenko

and many more....

I think this thread is about fights that could have been made not fantasy fights

[Mexi-Box]

GGG vs. Pirog
Chocolatito vs. Estrada: II (Winter 2014)
Kovalev vs. Stevenson (2015)
Froch vs. Calzaghe
Guevara vs. Nietes (2015)
Gamboa vs. Juanma
Khan vs. Bradley
Andrade vs. Lara
Margarito vs. Mayweather
Drozd vs. Makabu
Beterbiev vs. Barrera
Wilder vs. Povetkin
Lebedev vs. Jones: II
Lebedev vs. Huck: II
Klitschko vs. Lewis: II
Klitschko vs. Klitschko
Mikey vs. Gamboa
Mikey vs. Uchiyama
Rigondeaux vs. Santa Cruz
Rigondeaux vs. Lomachenko (2015)

[Drinquor]

Canelo Alvarez vs Paul Williams

[Mexi-Box]

Canelo Alvarez vs Paul Williams

He was past prime at that point, but I remember people were saying Canelo was ducking Lara. He should've fought Lara instead, and he goes on to beat Lara anyways.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

There are thousands, personally it would be Morales/Marquez.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Tyson vs Ali
Jones Jr vs McClellan
GGG vs Hagler
Robinson vs Leonard
Trinidad vs Hearns
Pacquiao vs Valero
Hamed vs Lomachenko

and many more....

I think this thread is about fights that could have been made not fantasy fights

[gilgamesh]

Jhonny Gonzalez vs Rafael Marquez

[gilgamesh]

There are thousands, personally it would be Morales/Marquez.

The only pairing of the amazing Featherweight Four of that era we didn't get to see.

[ValMar]

Foreman-Holmes (HW)
Michael Spinks-Holyfield (CW)

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Foreman-Holmes (HW)
Michael Spinks-Holyfield (CW)

Why not spinks/holy at light heavy since you're so convinced evander fought there?

[ValMar]

Foreman-Holmes (HW)
Michael Spinks-Holyfield (CW)

Why not spinks/holy at light heavy since you're so convinced evander fought there?

Saad, I avoid using Google to check some history issues, but several days ago I checked, and YES, Holyfield competed at LHW on the beggining of his career. Nowadays it is a trivia, only.....Anyway, it would have been wonderful to see Holyfield against Spinks (if Spinks had not decided to move up at HW), better at CW than at LHW.....

Holifield-V. Klitschko (1998-2000)
Tua-Tyson
Lewis-Wladimir Klitschko

....And, of course : Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua..........

[SaadOffTheDeck]

He was a couple pounds over for a few fights, he never made the light heavy limit. Not once.

[Enlightened-One]

• Barry McGuigan vs. Azumah Nelson (1986)
• Donovan 'Razor' Ruddock vs. Corrie Sanders (1990)
• Donovan 'Razor' Ruddock vs. Evander 'The Real Deal' Holyfield (1992)
• Donovan 'Razor' Ruddock vs. Riddick 'Big Daddy' Bowe (1992)
• Evander ‘The Real Deal’ Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis (1996 instead of 1999)
• Evander ‘The Real Deal’ Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson (1990 instead of 1997)
• Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Antonio Margarito (2007)
• Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Kostya Tszyu (2004)
• Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao (2009)
• Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Paul Williams (2005)
• Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Shane Mosley (2005)
• George Foreman vs. Larry Holmes (1977, 1992 & 2002)
• George Foreman vs. Lennox Lewis (1998.)
• George Foreman vs. Mike Tyson (1990)
• George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali II (1976)
• George Foreman vs. Sonny Liston (1969)
• Herbie Hide vs. Jeremy Williams (1996)
• Herbie Hide vs. Tommy Morrison (1993)
• Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham vs. Chris Eubank (1990)
• Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham vs. Marvin Hagler (1987)
• Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham vs. Nigel Benn (1990)
• Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham vs. Steve Collins (1989)
• Herol 'Bomber' Graham vs. Kirkland Laing (1980)
• Ike Ibeabuchi vs. Evander Holyfield (1999)
• Ike Ibeabuchi vs. Lennox Lewis (1999)
• Ike Ibeabuchi vs. Mike Tyson (1999)
• Ike Ibeabuchi vs. Oliver McCall (1999)
• Ike Ibeabuchi vs. Vitali Klitschko (1999)
• Ike Ibeabuchi vs. Wladimir Klitschko (1999)
• James Toney vs. Bernard Hopkins (1993)
• James Toney vs. Chris Eubank (1993)
• James Toney vs. Mike Tyson (2003)
• James Toney vs. Nigel Benn (1993)
• James Toney vs. Steve Collins (1992)
• Joe Calzaghe vs. Carl Froch (2008.)
• Joe Calzaghe vs. Steve Collins (1997)
• Joe Calzaghe vs. Sven Ottke (2002)
• Joe Frazier vs. Kenny Norton (1973)
• Jose Luis Castillo vs. Diego Corrales III (2005)
• Juan Manuel Márquez vs. Eric Morales (2003)
• Julian Jackson vs. Michael Nunn (1989)
• Julian Jackson vs. Sugar Ray Leonard (1989)
• Julian Jackson vs. Tommy Hearns (1989)
• Kostya Tszyu vs. Oscar De La Hoya (1997)
• Kostya Tszyu vs. Vernon Forrest (1995)
• Marvin Hagler vs. Mike McCallum (1987)
• Marvin Hagler vs. Tommy Hearns II (1985)
• Michael Moorer vs. Virgil Hill (1990)
• Mike Tyson vs. David Tua (2000)
• Mike Tyson vs. Riddick Bowe (1996)
• Mike Tyson vs. Vitali Klitschko (2000)
• Mike Tyson vs. Wladimir Klitschko (2000)
• Naseem Hamed vs. Juan Manuel Márquez (1997)
• Naseem Hamed vs. Manny Pacquiao (2000)
• Nigel Benn vs. Chris Eubank III (1994)
• Oscar De La Hoya vs. Felix Trinidad II (2000)
• Pernell 'Sweet Pea' Whitaker vs. Meldrick Taylor (1991)
• Pernell 'Sweet Pea' Whitaker vs. 'Terrible' Terry Norris (1995)
• Ray Mercer vs. Evander ‘The Real Deal’ Holyfield II (1995)
• Ray Mercer vs. Lennox Lewis II (1995)
• Ricky Hatton vs. Miguel Cotto (2005)
• Riddick Bowe vs. Lennox Lewis (1996)
• Roberto Duran vs. Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham (1989)
• Roberto Duran vs. Julian Jackson (1989)
• Roberto Duran vs. Nigel Benn (1989)
• Roberto Duran vs. Thomas Hearns (1980 instead of 1984)
• Rocky Marciano vs. Floyd Patterson (1956)
• Rocky Marciano vs. Ingemar Johansson (1956)
• Rocky Marciano vs. Sonny Liston (1956)
• Roy Jones Jr. vs. Bernard Hopkins (2002)
• Roy Jones Jr. vs. Dariusz Michalczewski (2002)
• Roy Jones Jr. vs. Evander ‘The Real Deal’ Holyfield (2003)
• Roy Jones Jr. vs. Gerald McClellan (1995)
• Roy Jones Jr. vs. James Toney II (2003)
• Roy Jones Jr. vs. Joe Calzaghe (1997)
• Roy Jones Jr. vs. Mike McCallum (1994 instead of 1996)
• Roy Jones Jr. vs. Mike Tyson (2003)
• Sergio Martinez vs. Antonio Margarito II (2004 or 2009)
• Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvin Hagler II (1988.)
• Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Michael Nunn (1988.)
• Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Tommy Hearns II (1987 instead of 1989)
• 'Terrible' Terry Norris vs. Felix 'Tito' Trinidad (1997)
• Tommy Morrison vs. 'Smokin' Bert Cooper (1993)

• Notes: Some of these super-fights actually got to the stage of the negotiation table but the boxers either couldn’t agree terms or the contest was eventually cancelled for one reason or another.

• You may also notice that some of the fights in my list actually took place, but unfortunately at the wrong time, which is why I’ve still included them (by expressing a more appropriate year).

• I have estimated the years that the fight could have happened… or where I think negotiations actually took place but the contest never materialised.

• In my mind, there’s no point in speculating about “The Best Fights That Never Happened”… if they could have never taken place due to both fighters competing in completely different eras or weight classes. It’s far better to discuss bouts that were theoretically highly-possible.

[KiwiRider]

This is the most depressing thread I've read.
So many missed matchs.

[ValMar]

He was a couple pounds over for a few fights, he never made the light heavy limit. Not once.

Saad, I told that was a trivia, unimportant part of boxing history.

[Jip]

Tyson vs Ali
Jones Jr vs McClellan
GGG vs Hagler
Robinson vs Leonard
Trinidad vs Hearns
Pacquiao vs Valero
Hamed vs Lomachenko

and many more....

I think this thread is about fights that could have been made not fantasy fights

Look at the first page. The mod palooka writing hearns vs trinidad. That is fantasy fight not what realy couldve been made.

[Jip]

So many missed opportunities. Roy is one of the most stupid boxer ever. Stubborn or stupid or both!

He couldve boosted his status, made a ton of money boxing prime hopkins, prime calzaghe, michalchewski, maybe even ppv mega fight vs holyfield & tyson. Blessed with all the talent in the world he couldve beat them all and retired as a multi millionere. Now he is broke half russian and continues to fight penny fights against nobodys.