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The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 09 Feb 2012, 19:16
by Goodnight, Irene
No predictions really necessary, just post the fights no one would ever talk about.
Your awkward, your dull, your ungainly masses.
Here's a few to start...
Fres Oquendo vs. John Ruiz
Michael Grant vs. Nikolai Valuev
Jess Willard vs. Ken Norton
Primo Carnera vs. Hasim Rahman
Tony Galento vs. Eric Esch
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 09 Feb 2012, 22:17
by Jaywheel
winky wright vs cory spinks
otis grant vs sven ottke
georges chuvalo vs zuri lawrence
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 09 Feb 2012, 22:23
by Goodnight, Irene
Yeesh, Jay, thats just downright masochistic.
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 09 Feb 2012, 22:29
by Jaywheel
What a card it would make. Top it off with Paulie Malignaggi vs Paul Spadafora.
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 09 Feb 2012, 22:49
by Goodnight, Irene
Jaywheel wrote:What a card it would make. Top it off with Paulie Malignaggi vs Paul Spadafora.
Now you're just being ridiculous

Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 09 Feb 2012, 23:54
by crusader
Goodnight, Irene wrote:No predictions really necessary, just post the fights no one would ever talk about.
Your awkward, your dull, your ungainly masses.
Here's a few to start...
Fres Oquendo vs. John Ruiz
Michael Grant vs. Nikolai Valuev
Jess Willard vs. Ken Norton
Primo Carnera vs. Hasim Rahman
Tony Galento vs. Eric Esch
This fight actually happened and sure enough no one talked about it.
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 09 Feb 2012, 23:58
by Goodnight, Irene
You're shitt!n me!
Someone MADE that bout!?
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 00:01
by SaadOffTheDeck
Andre Dirrell vs anyone
Byrd/Tubbs
Camacho/Starling
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 00:02
by Goodnight, Irene
Just checked it out. Under, "Notes," its blank
![[icon_e_biggrin.gif] :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
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Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 00:07
by SaadOffTheDeck
Goodnight, Irene wrote:Just checked it out. Under, "Notes," its blank
![[icon_e_biggrin.gif] :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
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It was grueling, Ruiz did knock him out late which keeps it from approaching Tubbs/Page territory as the worst fight of all time. But it was dreadful.
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 00:44
by Diamond WEAPON
Cory Spinks vs. Paulie Malignaggi
Ivan Calderon vs. Luis Lazarte
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 00:46
by Goodnight, Irene
I think this just made me sick...Hopkins vs. Holyfield at Heavy...today.
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 01:30
by AngryGoon38
Randy Tex Cobb vs George Chuvalo
Tommy Hearns vs Ray Mercer
Carlos Baldomir vs Randy Shields
Leon Spinks vs Joe Hipp
Kelly Pavlik vs Antonio Tarver
Glenn Johnson vs Bennie Briscoe
Dwight Muhammed Quawi vs Tony Galento
Bert Cooper vs Scott LaDoux
Arturo Gatti vs Jim Watt
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 01:33
by Goodnight, Irene
Michael Spinks vs...
Ingemar Johansson and 90's George Foreman.
Mike Tyson (2000) vs. Cassius Clay (1962).
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 01:40
by SaadOffTheDeck
Glen Johnson vs Briscoe would be awesome.
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 01:51
by AngryGoon38
SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Glen Johnson vs Briscoe would be awesome.
You know it !
Very 50/50 to me. All i can picture is a battle of wills to the fullest extent.
Listed as an Awkward match because it would be purely a war of attrition over being anything else.
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 01:53
by Goodnight, Irene
Mayweather or Whitaker vs Wright at 154 would be cancer to the eyes.
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 02:31
by Goodnight, Irene
I dont need to convince you of my appreciation of Sweet Pea, but I see him clashing horribly in this one.
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 10:02
by Ezzard
Johnny Nelson v Beranrd Hopkins
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 10:35
by Datsue
My dog there are some abominations in this thread. I think I felt something scurry up from the depths of my innards & try to throttle my brain, to blot out the pain, from just thinking about some of these.
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 12:06
by Diamond WEAPON
BarryWashington wrote:Goodnight, Irene wrote:I dont need to convince you of my appreciation of Sweet Pea, but I see him clashing horribly in this one.
i could see sweet pea lightin up the body against winky
You mean the elbows?
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 12:18
by Jaywheel
Same here. The guys forearms are covering him from head to knees. I'd envision a dull fight.
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 12:22
by King Carlos
Yeah, the body wasn't much of an option against Winky, and Whitaker didn't have the power to make a dent in him. Not to mention Whitaker was not terribly convincing at 154, in my opinion. He looked pudgy and was clearly too small for the weight class. Wright would probably win a close, boring decision.
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 12:58
by boxbible
Among today's fighters, it's have to be Andre Ward vs Chad Dawson...
Chris John vs Guillermo Rigondeaux
Or even worse, Anselmo Moreno vs Eric Morel :(
Re: The Awkward Match-ups Thread...
Posted: 10 Feb 2012, 12:59
by Diamond WEAPON
King Carlos wrote:Yeah, the body wasn't much of an option against Winky, and Whitaker didn't have the power to make a dent in him. Not to mention Whitaker was not terribly convincing at 154, in my opinion. He looked pudgy and was clearly too small for the weight class. Wright would probably win a close, boring decision.
They would be shaking their heads at each other non-stop, like "hah, your offense is futile against my mad defensive skillz!"