Big fights that were cancelled and then never happened...

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  1. Double L

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    Wasn't Tito scheduled to face Terry Norris?

    What other fights were scheduled and then cancelled, never to happen?
     
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    Tito Quartey
     
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    Going way back.

    Jack Dempsey vs. Harry Wills is the first that comes to mind.

    also:

    Young Stribling vs. Harry Greb
     
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    Bowe vs. Lewis


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    was never scheduled. :nono:

    Foreman-Holmes and Foreman-Moorer II were more spectacle than big fights, but both were scheduled, and canceled without so much as a whisper, as if we were supposed to pretend they were never scheduled to happen at all.

    Jones-Buster Douglas, though again - more of a spectacle than a meaningful event.

    I forget if Naseem Hamed-Kennedy McKinney was made official and then "fell apart," or just rumored to happen only for Naz to look elsewhere.
     
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    whitaker quartey also
     
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    I know...I read the topic as 'Big fights that never happened.'


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    Terry Norris was supposed to drop down to 147 to fight De La Hoya, but ended up losing to Keith Mullings.

    I don't know if it was necessarily "scheduled" though, more like Arum saying it will happen.

    http://news.google.com/newspapers?n..._scPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YY4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4484,508323
     
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    I was a big Terry Norris fan back in the day, but always found that part to be a bit of poetic justice. He had the deal in place to fight Trinidad, but pulled out, sued King, signed with Arum and thought Oscar was in reach. Only for Norris - and Arum - to discover just how shot he was at that point in his career.
     
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    Haye vs Wlad and Vitali.
     
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    Well, he did get a shitload of money from King eventually..........so that part worked out for him at least.
     
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    Holyfield-Akinwande was cancelled day before it happened.

    And yes, it was a big fight!
     
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    StingerKarl vs Neil and StingerKarl vs Maverick.
     
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    Don't let it happen again.
     
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    What about:

    StingerKarl vs. StingerKarl


    That would be the shit!

    :bears:
     
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