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In boxing, there are so many great fights that simply cannot be made due to several reasons. Try to name all the greatest potential matchups that never came to be. Mayweather vs Pacquiao would be one of the biggest on this list if it indeeed never happens. I'll start: Lewis vs Bowe in 1992

Tyson vs Holyfield,1990/91,cant remember exact year,the one scheduled before Douglas KO'd Mike

mayweather v hamed , Benn v Duran/Leonard and mcguigan v nelson were all rumoured at one point and would have loved to see them all happen.

Duran v Argullo
Olivares v Zarate
Sanchez v Pedroza
Hearns v Trinidad
Ensley Bingham v Wayne Alexander
Khan v Thaxton
Tyson v Mercer
Morales v Hamed
Hatton v Neary
Cuevas v Yory Boy Campas
Hearns v Mugabi
Trinidad v Norris
Duran v Don Curry
Duran v Chavez

Lennox Lewis v Corrie Sanders
Juan Manuel Marquez v Erik Morales
Matthew Macklin v Ryan Rhodes
Arthur Abraham v Felix Sturm

Sergey Kovalev vs Manny Pacquiao
Wladimir Klitschko vs Shannon Briggs
Danny Garcia vs Rod Salka II

IRLangmaid25 wrote:Lennox Lewis v Corrie Sanders
Juan Manuel Marquez v Erik Morales
Matthew Macklin v Ryan Rhodes
Arthur Abraham v Felix Sturm

Macklin Barker was scheduled once but never happened in the end.

In recent years none of Makclin Barker and Murray have faced each other :-(

I really hope Adonis v Kovalev doesn't make this list.

Mike McCallum -v- Thomas Hearns
Sugar Ray Leonard -v- Marvellous Marvin Hagler ('82)

McGuigan vs Azumah Nelson. I still don't know how that one didn't get made.

Another one - Reeson vs McCrory. It would have been a good domestic scrap.

Hopkins vs Toney
SRL vs Aaron Pryor
Floyd vs Manny
Tyson vs Foreman

I hope Matthysse fights Maidana at some point bet that would be mega in Argentina

Naandrew wrote:I hope Matthysse fights Maidana at some point bet that would be mega in Argentina

Good call that would be a class match up.

Jones-Tyson.... but Jones wanted $100 million dollars...

King Kong v Godzilla
Superman v Spiderman

On a serious note, I would have loved to have seen Hatton v Cotto. You would think that would have easy to make given their styles and willingness to fight. EDIT _ apologiese see fergusg had already included - my bad.

ThereByTheGrace wrote:King Kong v Godzilla
Superman v Spiderman

On a serious note, I would have loved to have seen Hatton v Cotto. You would think that would have easy to make given their styles and willingness to fight. EDIT _ apologiese see fergusg had already included - my bad.

It would have been hard for him not to, since he basically listed every fight.

Junior and Ricky. I never thought that one would happen, I would have loved to have been proved wrong though.

PsychoGamerTwo wrote:Sergey Kovalev vs Manny Pacquiao
Wladimir Klitschko vs Shannon Briggs
Danny Garcia vs Rod Salka II

Is my sense of humor just not what it used to be, or... what's going on there?

Oh, Ruslan Provodnikov vs. Manny Pacquiao, I'm guessing.

palooka wrote:

Naandrew wrote:I hope Matthysse fights Maidana at some point bet that would be mega in Argentina

Good call that would be a class match up.

They fought as amatures four times with El Chino undefeated ........... would love to see this fornicating war, which boxing fan wouldn't?

Duran v Ayala Jr

Sam Langford -v- Jack Dempsey.

Sugar Ray Robinson v Charley Burley. It's a pity Burley was openly ducked so much.

Robinson v Leonard
Robinson v Yearns
Armstrong v Duran
Armstrong v Chavez
Bob Foster v Holyfield
Pep v Sanchez
Pep v Gomez
Ike Williams v Duran (for you elmer )

Would have liked to have seen the following big six 'domestics' happening....mainly due to a blatant favouritism for the Brit/Irish fighters involved. All of them could have happened.

Collins v Calzaghe

Hatton v Witter

Calzaghe v Froch

Hide v Lewis.....some slightly sadistic reasons involved!

Barker v Macklin

Hodkinson v Colin McMillan