Good fights that fell through and never happened?

Golota / Mercer was scheduled for 97 until Ray got injured and Golota fought Lewis :doh:

Rahman / Vitaly was an intersting matchup that never took place

who's got more?

 

Ike Quartey-Felix Trinidad

 

Shane-Tito:bears:

 

When was this fight scheduled? Was it actually close to happening?

 

'94

 

Shane/Tito in '94? :doh:

 

• Harry Wills-Jack Dempsey
• Mike Tyson-Evander Holyfield in 1990 and 1991, when both guys were younger and fresher
• James Toney-Bernard Hopkins in 2004

 

Lewis-Bowe in '92

 

it was supposed to happen in 2004, when Tito was coming back. Shane instead decided to fully unify 154 against Wright... we all know the rest.

Erratic beat me to it with Trinidad-Quartey. I'll also add Trinidad-Norris.

 

yeah.. or was it '96? not sure... I think it was '96

 

:: ... it was 2004. Shane was a non-descript lightweight in '96, still a year away from his first HBO appearance.

 

'94... 2004... it's all the same when your my age::

 

Ray Leonard vs Aaron Pryor.

 

mosley-mayorga was supposed to happen had mayorga beaten stinks.

 

Geemoney vs Mike Dave
steve dave vs Stinger Karl

 

Or Trinidad-Norris.

 

I was really looking forward to Akinwande vs Holyfield.

 

Who knows Akinwande might have beaten Holy. Henry was a holding machine but he was aslo big with big reach and pretty akward...Holy was never that great against big guys

 

come on baby boy.. this one made me laiugh::

 

I was hoping he would beat holy.

 

Good one. Even more of a reason to hate Spinks.

 

Ibeabuchi/Grant: would've either been as entertaining as Grant-Golota, or Ike exposes Grant, and makes for a better fight against Lennox (though probably would've lost)

Hopkins/Calzaghe: Fight would've been a good one when planned for late 2002, or at least much better than it would be in 2008.

Quartey/Whitaker: Type of fight that was probably more intriguing than it would've been entertaining. Still, curious to see how a more active Ike would've fared against a declining Whitaker in April 1998, instead of wondering what if he fought someone else in the 16 month between Lopez and Oscar.

 

Lewis-Golota II

 

That fight was never going to happen, Sugar Ray never wanted anything to do with the Windmill Maniac.

 

here's some that i would've liked to see, that "could've" happened:

Wright vs. Ouma

Jirov vs. Black Panther @190

Tua vs. Tyson

Harry Simon vs. Vargas

Tszyu vs. PBF

JMM vs. Hamed

Byron Mitchell vs. Antwun Echols

Margarito vs. Mayorga

 

Don't know if this qualifies but it pains me to this day that....

BOWE-LEWIS never came off!!!!! :doh:

 

Shane-Mayorga! :bears:

DAMNED Cory Spinks! :flip:

 

Yeah, and that would've been a good one.

:bears:

Was not officially set or anything, but it was destined to happen until Salvador's untimely death...Salvador Sanchez vs Alexis Arguello.

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How about Bowe-Mercer?

 

Next to Quartey-Trinidad that's one i always wanted to see.