Most last minute cancellation of a notable fight?

Not sure how high it rates in noteriety, but Donovan George - on advice from Leon Margules - pulled out of last December's scheduled title eliminator w/ Librado Andrade about six hours before the opening bell, due to a dispute over the ring size. Didn't Sugar Ray Robinson pull out of a fight with Carmen Basilio because he suddenly demanded more money? (which he eventually got) I think he walked out of the discussions causing Basilio to express life-long animosity against him. I recall one time he said that he'd never fight him again and allow him to make any money with with him. Robinson was a notoriously difficult customer as a middleweight I think.

Not sure how high it rates in noteriety, but Donovan George - on advice from Leon Margules - pulled out of last December's scheduled title eliminator w/ Librado Andrade about six hours before the opening bell, due to a dispute over the ring size.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1121060/index.htm

haha! I think that one takes the cake. I probably should have titled the thread "most last minute cancellations of notable fights Not sure if my memory is right, but didn't Mike Tyson go to jail a week or so before he was supposed to fight Holyfield originally? Nah, it was 3 weeks before the scheduled fight. I remember it, on October 18, 1991, on the same night Ray Mercer almost killed Tommy Morrison. Holyfield-Tyson was originally scheduled for November 8. Tyson pulled out with a rib injury, and Sports Illustrated had an article detailing how he hurt his rib. There were a lot of people who felt (and still feel) that Tyson just pulled out because he couldn't focus on such a big fight with the rape trial coming up. Tyson ended up getting convicted exactly two years after losing to Buster Douglas, on February 10. The Michael Spinks-Eddie Mustafa Muhammad rematch was cancelled on the day of the fight when Eddie didn't make weight. A lot of people feel that was really the fight, not Ray Mancini-Duk Koo Kim, which led to the change in weigh-in procedures. A lot of money was lost when that bout got cancelled.

Berto vs mosely and Berto vs Ortiz II

Dimitrienko passing out 10 mins before his fight with sosnowski in the dressing room? haha! I think that one takes the cake. I probably should have titled the thread "most last minute cancellations of notable fights Not sure if my memory is right, but didn't Mike Tyson go to jail a week or so before he was supposed to fight Holyfield originally?

Dimitrienko passing out 10 mins before his fight with sosnowski in the dressing room?