What were great Bouts that we Missed out on as boxing fans ?

[FredWreck]

PAC. vs. May sometime in 2008-2011 is the elephant in the room obviously.

PAC vs. Khan

Margarito vs. May

Mayweather vs prime Khan

Mayweather vs. Paul Williams
08-09

Erik Morales vs. Marquez


Damn. Mayweather ducked a lotta folk! Can’t be TBE with so much ducking.

[Disturbed]

Im always sad that we never saw Morales, Marquez and Cotto fighting each other

Victor Ortiz vs Provodnikov would have been fun in appropriate time

Sugar Ray Leonard vs Aaron Pryor. Fight was supposed to happen too, wasn't it? If I remember right Pryor accepted the fight already..

[Idunnoshet]

Personally speaking...

Bowe v Lewis
Pacquiao v Valero
Leonard v Curry
Hearns v McCallum
Tyson v Witherspoon
Holmes v Foreman
Calzaghe v Froch
Hatton vs Witter

Good call .
For me Pacquiao / Valero was a super huge missed opportunity .
I'd see Valero at the gyms . The guy was vicious and there was already talk about him and Pac squaring off before his death .

[Nash out]

I would have really liked to see Bradley-Maidana and Bradley-Khan in 2010-2011. Bradley-Maidana was at one point negotiated but Maidana had to pull out due to a back injury. Style wise Bradley-Maidana would have been a war, although I feel Tim probably would have fought a more disciplined fight than his approach against Provodnikov. I always felt Maidana was very underrated for most of his time as an active fighter, and though I wouldn't pick him over Tim I 'm confident he would have been very competitive and dangerous throughout.

Bradley-Khan was very publicly negotiated and even sounded like a done deal at times, but promotional disputes with Gary Shaw led Bradley to join Top Rank and pursue Pacquiao instead. A lot of people feel Bradley ducked Khan, I personally don't take anything said publicly about negotiations at face value and in any case I wouldn't call a guy "ducking" when he goes to fight the #1 p4p guy instead, but I still think it's a huge shame we never got Bradley-Khan to settle who was the best at 140 when both were in their primes. As division rivals they had an intriguing style matchup, with Bradley being a jack-of-all-trades fighter who lacked "flash" but still got the job done, and Khan being a very specialized physical specimen with his extraordinary hand speed. Up until Bradley fought Pacquiao, he had never faced a guy with hand speed comparable to Khan's, and we all know that speed kills. I don't believe either fighter would have knocked the other guy out if they had fought, and my opinion is that if they fought it would be a strafey, tactical figght that I would favor Bradley to win on his footwork.

When did Bradley fight TBE? (Mayweather) Another Pac fanboy I see. 118-110 TBE. To help you with future scoring, Pac won Rounds 4 and 6.

[Bullrider]

Leo Santa Cruz vs Guillermo Rigondeaux, even though Santa Cruz kept calling out Rigo in every post-fight interview right after dismantling a sparring partner. Finally, Jim Gray exasperatingly advised, "Well, tell your management team to make the fight for you."

Oscar, who still had right to LSC's fights, DID try to make the fight. Unfortunately, Haymon bought LSC's remaining contract with LSC's joyful blessings.

[The Ninth Layer]

When did Bradley fight TBE? (Mayweather) Another Pac fanboy I see. 118-110 TBE. To help you with future scoring, Pac won Rounds 4 and 6.

Don't be dense. In 2011 a lot of people had Pacquiao as top pound-for-pound. It was an open question as to who was on top, but at the time Pacquiao was more active (six fights between 2009-2011 compared to Mayweather's three) and Floyd wasn't helped by the unusual way his 2011 fight with Victor Ortiz ended.

Google "2011 boxing pound for pound rankings" and you can see what people thought at the time. For example here is Ring Magazine ranking Manny as p4p #1 above Floyd:
https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/T..._Ratings:_2011

In 2012 perceptions flipped as Manny lost both his fights that year, first to Bradley which most felt was controversial and then to Marquez which was very uncontroversial.

[Cobra Curry]

Good call .
For me Pacquiao / Valero was a super huge missed opportunity .
I'd see Valero at the gyms . The guy was vicious and there was already talk about him and Pac squaring off before his death .

Vicious is the word that springs to mind. That would have been an incredible fight.

[Boris Johnson!]

Tito vs Quartey almost happened, would've been sweet

[Beterbiev#1]

Valero vs Pacquiao

Mayweather vs Wright

Jones vs Dariusz

SRL vs Pryor

Gamboa vs Lopez

Mayweather vs Margarito/Tszyu

Tyson vs Foreman/Tua

Lewis vs Wlad

[DuckAdonis]

Wilder- Joshua

Hurd- Charlo

Lomachenko- Mikey Garcia

Kovalev- Stevenson

Golovkin- Pirog