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Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 13:38
by Foggy
coghaugen11 wrote: 29 Mar 2021, 13:53 How about Hide vs Mason/Bruno/Lennox
Hide -Haye could have been a cracking fight

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 14:18
by coghaugen11
Foggy wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 13:38
coghaugen11 wrote: 29 Mar 2021, 13:53 How about Hide vs Mason/Bruno/Lennox
Hide -Haye could have been a cracking fight
I’d like to see a trilogy or a quadogy

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 14:26
by Glass Joe
Haye - Thompson rematch.
Naz vs Brodie
Nelson - maccarinelli (close)
Fury vs Price

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 14:53
by JC
Glass Joe wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 14:26 Haye - Thompson rematch.
I think it was better Thompson retiring with people remembering him for a last big win.

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 15:20
by coghaugen11
Nelson vs Haye

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 16:19
by Kit
Honeyghan - Laing
Neary - Hatton
Schwer - Ayers

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 18:56
by THEBUTCH
Yep, such a shame Hatton v Neary didn't come about for the British title.

I'd have been watching Ayres v Schwer through my fingers....two of my favourite boxers !

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 19:58
by stujones
Spencer Oliver vs Naz
Spencer Oliver vs Brodie.

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 22:13
by mickey1975
Ashley-Wharton was big in Leeds. Signed, sealed....

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 31 Mar 2021, 07:43
by stujones
mickey1975 wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 13:20
stujones wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 11:10 Don't really know why but I always wanted to see Darren Barker against a middleweight Paul Smith.
You need to look in a mirror and ask yourself “why?”.
Yeah obviously their careers panned out a bit differently, although whilst criticised on here Paul had a a career most professionals will be proud of. They just turned over at the same time, both had very good amateur form (weren't they both Commonwealth games medallists) - and they both seemed quite equal when starting their middleweight pathway - I think Barker had an Area belt when Smith had the English belt - I think at that time it would have been a nice little English title fight.

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 31 Mar 2021, 07:44
by stujones
THEBUTCH wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 18:56 Yep, such a shame Hatton v Neary didn't come about for the British title.

I'd have been watching Ayres v Schwer through my fingers....two of my favourite boxers !
I would have liked to have seen Witter vs Eamonn Magee around the 2001 / 2002 time.

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 31 Mar 2021, 19:42
by THEBUTCH
Rather you than me ;-) Two stinkers for the price of one !

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 01:59
by margaret thatcher
gawd, these threads always make me sad, think of the slobber knockers we coulda seen bruhs :cry:

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 07:32
by forcefraser
I sometimes wake up in the.middle of the night gutted that we never got to see Skelton v Sprott 3

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 07:51
by danconnollyeire
mickey1975 wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 13:20
stujones wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 11:10 Don't really know why but I always wanted to see Darren Barker against a middleweight Paul Smith.
You need to look in a mirror and ask yourself “why?”.
Barker/Macklin/Murray should've all fought several times. They all shared opponents. Promoters should be shot for those fights not happening

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 07:53
by coghaugen11
James Cook v Benn/Eubank
Mike Watson v Tony Sibson in 88

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 08:33
by gerryd77
nelson v de leon 2

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 08:46
by coghaugen11
gerryd77 wrote: 01 Apr 2021, 08:33 nelson v de leon 2
Yessssssssss

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 09:40
by milpool
How come we didn't get Herol Graham v Tony Sibson back in the day?

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 10:24
by Cyclops
TheGingerBomber wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 08:52 Khan / Brook looking that way. Even if it happens, there’s no real interest now.

Fury / Haye

Campbell / Mitchell would’ve been nice
This is the one that kills me because it was signed and sealed and I was going. I've still got the tickets. I might consider getting them framed, especially if Fury beats AJ and solidifies himself as a great, but it would be nice to get Tyson to sign one and Haye another. Tyson's a bit more accessible than Haye, but I wonder if even looking at that ticket would irritate him? Imagine crossing paths with him and having a chat and asking him to sign something that reminded him of one of the shittest times in his life? Could be end of conversation.

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 10:29
by coghaugen11
milpool wrote: 01 Apr 2021, 09:40 How come we didn't get Herol Graham v Tony Sibson back in the day?
Graham was light-middle, Sibbo middle.

Then Graham was middle when Sibbo was light-heavy

Pre-168

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 11:05
by mickey1975
Cyclops wrote: 01 Apr 2021, 10:24
TheGingerBomber wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 08:52 Khan / Brook looking that way. Even if it happens, there’s no real interest now.

Fury / Haye

Campbell / Mitchell would’ve been nice
This is the one that kills me because it was signed and sealed and I was going. I've still got the tickets. I might consider getting them framed, especially if Fury beats AJ and solidifies himself as a great, but it would be nice to get Tyson to sign one and Haye another. Tyson's a bit more accessible than Haye, but I wonder if even looking at that ticket would irritate him? Imagine crossing paths with him and having a chat and asking him to sign something that reminded him of one of the shittest times in his life? Could be end of conversation.
No, Fury isn’t that type of guy.

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 11:13
by Coco
mickey1975 wrote: 01 Apr 2021, 11:05
Cyclops wrote: 01 Apr 2021, 10:24
TheGingerBomber wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 08:52 Khan / Brook looking that way. Even if it happens, there’s no real interest now.

Fury / Haye

Campbell / Mitchell would’ve been nice
This is the one that kills me because it was signed and sealed and I was going. I've still got the tickets. I might consider getting them framed, especially if Fury beats AJ and solidifies himself as a great, but it would be nice to get Tyson to sign one and Haye another. Tyson's a bit more accessible than Haye, but I wonder if even looking at that ticket would irritate him? Imagine crossing paths with him and having a chat and asking him to sign something that reminded him of one of the shittest times in his life? Could be end of conversation.
No, Fury isn’t that type of guy.
It would annoy me if I was Fury, Haye gave it the big one, Fury spent proper money and time on a training camp and sparring partners, and then the Londoner either came out with a Mickey Mouse excuse or knew that he wasn't up to it all along.
Perhaps at first he underestimated Fury and then realised that it was too big a job. Instead he went for a relatively easy job against Bellew and he wasn't up to that,

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 12:40
by Cyclops
Coco wrote: 01 Apr 2021, 11:13
mickey1975 wrote: 01 Apr 2021, 11:05
Cyclops wrote: 01 Apr 2021, 10:24
This is the one that kills me because it was signed and sealed and I was going. I've still got the tickets. I might consider getting them framed, especially if Fury beats AJ and solidifies himself as a great, but it would be nice to get Tyson to sign one and Haye another. Tyson's a bit more accessible than Haye, but I wonder if even looking at that ticket would irritate him? Imagine crossing paths with him and having a chat and asking him to sign something that reminded him of one of the shittest times in his life? Could be end of conversation.
No, Fury isn’t that type of guy.
It would annoy me if I was Fury, Haye gave it the big one, Fury spent proper money and time on a training camp and sparring partners, and then the Londoner either came out with a Mickey Mouse excuse or knew that he wasn't up to it all along.
Perhaps at first he underestimated Fury and then realised that it was too big a job. Instead he went for a relatively easy job against Bellew and he wasn't up to that,
There were years between those fights, though. And Haye wasn't shot then and had quality sparring partners for that fight that wouldn't have come cheap: Wilder, Hrgovic, Dimitenko, Richard Towers. He would have spent and lost a lot of money, too. He ended up broke enough to throw his legacy down the toilet losing to Bellend later on, didn't he? I'm sure he would have got in the ring against Fury. You still think he cut his own eye?

Re: Best british fights that never happened

Posted: 01 Apr 2021, 13:48
by Noxy
J-C wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 14:53
Glass Joe wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 14:26 Haye - Thompson rematch.
I think it was better Thompson retiring with people remembering him for a last big win.
Yep, CAT was excellent. A great way for him to exit. He was one of my favorite fighters.