If you could rewrite Boxing history, what would you change?

[Scary]

Calzaghe taking on Dawson, Pavlik and rematching Hopkins. Then a Froch fight. What a dream fight. Back then I'd root for Calzaghe, today, I'd root for Froch.

Hopkins shouldn't have fought Joe Smith.

Ward should have never existed in boxing.

FM MP meets 2009, 2010.

[BucaRican]

Canelo to be tested 24/7 of his career.

Margaritos gloves being xray scanned before every fight in his career or Naazim Richardson being the glove checker before every single fight ever had.

Trinidad to never go up to 160

Marquez to have been tested randomly right after drinking his piss on tv

Macho Camacho to have a little bit of more power a endless youth and still be in boxing, along with Naseem Hamed

[GhostofDempsey]

I love SSM, dude was bad ass, but there is lil doubt he's ******ed with his recollection with a lot of things involving boxing, opponents, PED usage, his wife & various other strippers who've been sugar baby'd by him.

So I'm to believe a 30 something & 0, P4P discussed guy with 5+ 135lb defenses was trying to fight Floyd passionately sometime between when Floyd's best opponent was Tony Pep & in the 5mos they were #1 at 130 & 135 before SSM jumped to 147 & Floyd wasn't even Floyd yet so idk why Shane woulda even wanted to fight him back then.

Knowing what we know about the two I think it is safe to assume Floyd was talking shyt about Shane because of all of the attention he was getting in the press. Tried to steal some of Shane's shine and when Shane called his bluff he got quiet. I remember the ESPN interview when Floyd snapped at Kenny for asking him why he wouldn't fight Shane. He used Mosley's 4 or 5 losses at the time to suggest Shane wasn't worthy. When one fighter has a history of ducking behavior and the other has faced bigger and tougher challenges, I tend to side with the guy who challenged himself on a consistent basis, not the guy who sought low-risk/high reward fights while never fighting one elite at their career best.

[chrisJS]

Salvador Sanchez doesn't die.

Hagler gets the decision over Leonard.

Marquez doesn't get robbed in Pacquaio 2 and 3.

Eder Jofre gets the decision in the first Fighting Harada fight.

Castillo gets the decision he deserved against Mayweather in fight I.

Kovalev doesn't get robbed in Ward I.

Mayweather stays retired in 2007.

Trinidad stays at 154 another year or two and fights Mosley and De La Hoya again.

Tszyu doesn't spend so much time injured from 2002 to 2004.

[Eff Pandas]

Knowing what we know about the two I think it is safe to assume Floyd was talking shyt about Shane because of all of the attention he was getting in the press. Tried to steal some of Shane's shine and when Shane called his bluff he got quiet. I remember the ESPN interview when Floyd snapped at Kenny for asking him why he wouldn't fight Shane. He used Mosley's 4 or 5 losses at the time to suggest Shane wasn't worthy. When one fighter has a history of ducking behavior and the other has faced bigger and tougher challenges, I tend to side with the guy who challenged himself on a consistent basis, not the guy who sought low-risk/high reward fights while never fighting one elite at their career best.

I mean it mighta got brought up in passing cuz they were both HBO guys, but it was always something further down the line cuz Floyd was a noob champion in a division lower than Shane. Thing is with them not in the same division for another decade almost this fight made no sense in particular from Shane's POV cuz Shane was a P4P guy & Floyd was a noob champion. I don't buy Shane was looking at this fight in a serious manner cuz Floyd didn't have value as an opponent yet. Shane was the money guy/the A side here at this moment in time & I seem to recall he was thinking ODLH much more than Floyd around this Oct. 1998-Apr. 1999 timeline & Shane would go onto getting that fight & the big stage W for him in June 2000.

[Eff Pandas]

Salvador Sanchez doesn't die.

That just sorta gets creepy doe if he's Zombie Sanchez doe & still champ in 2018.

[Pac=Duran]

I'm not into revisionist history but, I guess two things;
-May/Pac fight in 2010.
-Byrd didn't stop Ward/Kov 2 when he did, so that Dre could properly drop Kovalev and give the haters fewer excuses.

These are good ones. I would add that Weeks should have giving Kova a few minutes to recover and deducted a point from Ward for one of those blatant low blows. Probably would have ended still as Dre was in the ascendancy.

What I would change is every robbery be over turned and the victory given to the rightful winner.

[alexguiness]

Hagler got win over SRL.

Castillo got the win over Floyd

Benn got the win over Eubank in the rematch.

Khan and Ward were aborted.

All perfectly reasonable wishes IMO.

[chrisJS]

Hagler got win over SRL.

Castillo got the win over Floyd

Benn got the win over Eubank in the rematch.

Khan and Ward were aborted.

All perfectly reasonable wishes IMO.

LOL. I agree. I could have really lived without the careers of Ward and Khan. At least Khan gave us some moments by getting KO'd. Ward was just a stain on Boxing.

[PrBoxing88]

Reject Cotto vs Margarito 1 and instead made Cotto vs Hatton.