List of Marinating Fights

[N/A]

Doesn't stop Malignaggi continuing to call out McGregor to disprove the video showing him eating flush shots. And tons of people online seem to want to see them fight for some reason.

"Tons of people online " = a statistically insignificant group of nerds who are not representative of the masses. Dana White doesn't want this fight. Al Haymon doesn't want this fight. A fight that neither side plans on making is not a fight that is "marinating."

"Penciled" - as in, just as easy to erase it

It's a fight that will definitely happen if both keep winning. This is actually a fight that is marinating. A fight both sides intend on making, just not immediately. Waiting until next year when the fight would be much bigger. That actually is what marinating is. Most of your list makes no sense though.

Despite Bob Arum coming out recently saying "why not", huh?

Hahahahahaha. Arum is a professional liar. That is his job. I can't even . . . . . . if you're gullible enough to fall for that I don't know that I can even waste my time trying to explain how things work to you. Ugh......

Despite Loma saying he'd do it.

OF COURSE he would do it. Doesn't mean Arum would allow it. A fight one side has no intention of ever making is not "marinating."

There's no way Wilder and Joshua fight in 2018.

Care to wager on that? If they both keep winning, it is very likely they fight in 2018.

Not with Wilder asking for 50% and the remote chance Joshua gets upset by Parker. Come on man.

Oh god . . . dude, please. Stop it. Wilder is "asking" for 50/50 because Joshua is going to "ask" for 70/30. They'll agree on 60/40 and then they'll fight. Stop taking every public statement fighters and promoters make at face value. This is a business.

If the Fury that fought Clinchko shows up against Joshua, it's a UD in the books for Fury. You can quote me on that.

The chances of that Fury ever existing again are less than the chances of Ali returning from the grave to unify the division.

I disagree. I think the draw has more people disenchanted than you think.

Oh yes yes, because of "tons of people online." Jesus man . . . do you have any idea how pissed the boxing public would be if the WBC tried to block the rematch in favor of GGG vs. Charlo? Seriously? One fight is likely to do a million buys, the other would struggle to sell 200k. Stop it. This is embarrassing.

I believe that outcome was somehow fixed to force a rematch when one guy clearly won a close fight.

Welcome to boxing. GBP ALWAYS has a crazy score in Canelo's favor in Vegas. Every time.

It would not have happened last June because Saunders was in no shape to take the fight after looking like a straight bum against Akavov

Saunders agreed to the fight. Contracts were sent out. then GGG pulled out because Canelo demanded no interim fights. Pay attention. This is all easily verifiable publicly available information.

Sorry, I forgot they banned catchweights. My bad

A random fight you want to see, between two people who have no intention of fighting each other and aren't even in the same weight class, is not "marinating." You have no understanding of the words you're using.

Stevenson's games and shuffles are what tanked the fight. Textbook definition of marinate.

The WBC ordered the fight between WBC world champion Stevenson and WBC diamond champion Kovalev. In response to the fight being ordered, Kovalev vacated and refused to fight Stevenson. The most blatant and clear text book duck of all time.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Just to be clear here since some don't understand.

If any fighter has rejected a fight saying "not now" or some variation that ultimately means they don't want to fight yet...or if some promoter or other company books their fighter against no-hopers instead of making fights that actually sell...that's marinating fights. Period point blank.

Floyd marinated the Pacquiao fight after Manny refused random blood and urine testing.

After Keith "DON'T DUCK ME THUN!" Thurman tried to get Paulie to face him, he turned around and marinated the Spence fight and the Crawford fight.


These are clear marinates of the finest order. They cannot be disputed. I don't want to hear about "political" nothing. They want to wait until the money is at peak and the threat is at minimum. That's marinating. It's smart, I don't blame them, but let's call it for what it is.

[_Rexy_]

It's just ridiculous boxing is so conducive to this marinating BS.

Would if we had to "marinate" the eagles vs the patriots? Would if we had to marinate the NBA flayoffs? The only marinating should be the prior fights the fighter has, use those to market himself.

it's sad, we just accept it as fans

Pro Bowl got us all marinating

[future hendrixx]

Ok. I need help on this one.

Is there a single list we can build of currently marinating, basting, cooking fights? You know, fights where despite what the fans want to see, Fighter A or Fighter B feels it's just not the right time? Or Promoter X simply doesn't see money in the fight?

• Thurman vs. Crawford
• Thurman vs. Spence
• Spence vs. Crawford
• Garcia vs. Lomachenko
• Joshua vs. Wilder
• Fury vs. Joshua
• Fury vs. Wilder
• Malignaggi vs. McGregor
• Golovkin vs. Charlo
• Golovkin vs. Saunders
• Eubank Jr. vs. Charlo
• Eubank Jr. vs. Golovkin
• Kovalev vs. Stevenson
• Brook vs. Khan
• Devin Haney vs. Tank Davis
• Tank Davis vs. Lomachenko

I missed a lot, any others?

*added two more, thanks Floyd

these fights are way past marinating. they have already burnt on the stove.

[Combat Talk Radio]

these fights are way past marinating. they have already burnt on the stove.

Good point.

[SAINTSTEVE]

We could argue over whose fault it was, (but let's not) but Mayweather Pacquiao done 'marinated' for too long. That was the lesson to take away from it.

[Combat Talk Radio]

We could argue over whose fault it was, (but let's not) but Mayweather Pacquiao done 'marinated' for too long. That was the lesson to take away from it.

Ah, but look at from the other fighters' perspective. You got hundreds of millions handed to both guys - one for losing. More money than ever before. Records broken. So they're like, "oh okay, so all I got to do is find the fights the fans want and then just marinate them and I'll get paid too, plus they'll lose their knockout power and I can just outbox them all night for easy work? Just like Floyd? Sign me up!"

That's what this thread is trying to capture. These marinating fights.

[SAINTSTEVE]

I would like to see for example, Berchelt vs G Davis, then the winner of that bout vs Lomachenko would be a bigger fight than either one atm. But let it marinate for too long you run the risk of one of the boxers losing in the meantime (like Pacquiao did), or of the public actually losing rather than gaining interest, as in the case of Kovalev vs Stevenson for example. Why nobody cares about that fight anymore? Just got tired of caring I guess.

[Combat Talk Radio]

I would like to see for example, Berchelt vs G Davis, then the winner of that bout vs Lomachenko would be a bigger fight than either one atm. But let it marinate for too long you run the risk of one of the boxers losing in the meantime (like Pacquiao did), or of the public actually losing rather than gaining interest, as in the case of Kovalev vs Stevenson for example. Why nobody cares about that fight anymore? Just got tired of caring I guess.

Well look on the flip side. One of the fighters loses, they all of a sudden get called out by everyone and their mama.

Nobody was calling out Bradley after he beat Manny, but they sure were after Manny won the second fight.

[icha]

andrade vs a live body... he keeps marinating his career..