Jip wrote: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.
you're spot on here. No modern fighter had more fights he could have made than Roy. Though HBO is equally to blame.
Enlightened-One wrote:• 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.
ValMar wrote: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.....
SaadOffTheDeck wrote:
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.....
ValMar wrote:
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.....
Mexi-Box wrote: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)
you're spot on here. No modern fighter had more fights he could have made than Roy. Though HBO is equally to blame.
