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We've all had dream match ups that never happened. What were the biggest fights that you dreamed about that just never came together?
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 29, 2008 2:28 AM
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you, could be right gun. thing is, it seemed like when he was peaking, he couldnt get a crack at the 140 title so he ended up at 147 where imo he didnt belong. i would have liked to see him get his shot at 140 which i believe he earned with his winning streak there. you feel me?
I never saw him fight at 140 but he doesn't look like someone either Judah or Tszyu would have avoided. Or Vince Phillips for that matter.
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 28, 2008 12:07 PM
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you, could be right gun. thing is, it seemed like when he was peaking, he couldnt get a crack at the 140 title so he ended up at 147 where imo he didnt belong. i would have liked to see him get his shot at 140 which i believe he earned with his winning streak there. you feel me?
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 28, 2008 12:07 AM
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Magellan - Antonio Diaz is overrated. He lost every major fight I ever saw him in.
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 28, 2008 12:04 AM
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good one gun. what about castillo v spadafora or antonio diaz v kostya tzyu? maybe stevie johnston v pito cardona?
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 27, 2008 11:46 PM
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Did anyone mention Mosley vs Trinidad at WW?
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 27, 2008 11:19 PM
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nobody takes tito's best shot. am gets smoked inside of 2. i thought this thread was for fights that coulda been meaning that there was a real life point in time when the match coulda been made. i know there's a thread somewhere in this forum for fantasy time travel matches. either way am is no match for tito in his prime. imo am is no better than wilfredo rivera was.
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened
Nov 27, 2008 2:57 PM
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A good fight at WW would have been Margarito vs Tito both in there primes. Too bad they missed each other by a few years. That would of been a hullava fight. Margarito wouldn't of ran like ODLH. I think Margarito would have taken Trinidad's best shot and then ware him down just like Cotto. Margarito probably would have KO'd him sooner than Cotto cuz Tito did not box and liked to slug it out which means Margarito would land bombs leading to a KO.
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 23, 2008 12:32 AM
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i'm not 100 % but when pryor finally reached the top, i believe wilfredo was already established at 154. yeah, that fight's a stretch. dont forget that leonard went and got a 154 belt from kalule then came right back down to 147. far as i know, benitez at least from the time he beat chiaverini, stayed up at 154. anyone remember the benitez-chiaverini fight on live tv? between rounds angie says to chiaverini, "don't drop your fckin hands!" i guess i'm simple minded but imo it's hilarious when someone swears on live tv and they can't beep it.
fights that coulda been-
azumah nelson, brian mitchell and john john molina shoulda fought each other in that time they were the 130 champs. i think all 3 woulda been interesting if not good fights.
one more, lupe aquino v juan domingo roldan.
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 22, 2008 11:09 AM
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As good as Benitez was defensively, I don't think that even he could keep a prime 140lb Pryor off of him for fifteen rounds. I think that a Pryor vs. Duran bout at 1 catchweight of 143lbs would have been a classic. Throw in Chavez versus the winner and boxing fans would have been treated to one heck of an event.
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 22, 2008 10:50 AM
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I think Aaron Pryor-Wilfred Benitez would have been a better fight than Pryor-Leonard.
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 22, 2008 9:44 AM
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Interesting topic. I would say that Aaron Pryor vs. Sugar Ray Leonard would be the fight I woud have liked to have seen. Pryor has always maintained that Ray wanted no part of him and dodged him. Pryor doesn't get the credit he deserved.
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 21, 2008 11:53 PM
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Hatton / Judah at 140
Hatton / Berto at 140
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 21, 2008 10:24 PM
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Ismael Laguna / Roberto Duran
Felix Trinidad / Miguel Cotto at catchweight
Salvadore Sanchez / Julio Cesar Chavez at 130
(well maybe that couldn't have been)
But a dream matchup for Mexico's best !
AND any other great fighters from the same
nationality that never fought.
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in addition the following wars:
Bob Foster / Victor Galindez
Bob Foster / John Conteh
Roberto Duran / Alexis Arguello at 135
Roberto Duran / Aaron Pryor at 140
Aaron Pryor / Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini at 135
Aaron Pryor / Thomas Hearns at 147
Jerry Quarry / George Foreman
Danny "Little Red" Lopez / Wilfredo Gomez at 126
Danny "Little Red" Lopez / Sean O'Grady rematch at 135
(for Sean's WBA Lightweight title this time !!.....bang - bang ! !)
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 21, 2008 9:31 PM
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> We've all had dream match ups that never happened.
> What were the biggest fights that you dreamed about
> that just never came together?
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*** Holmes/Foreman *** All these fighters in their
Bowe/Lewis prime of course! *******
Haggler/Monzon
Mancini/Prayor
*************Just to name a few! **********
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Re: What Were The Greatest Fights that Could Have Been...But Never Happened?
Nov 20, 2008 4:36 PM
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Prayor vs Lenard
Marqauez vs Morales
Maldrick taylor vs Whitaker
Tua vs Tyson You know before he sucked
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