List of Marinating Fights

[Combat Talk Radio]

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?

• ✅ (Danny) Garcia vs. Spence
• ❌ Pacquiao vs. (Danny) Garcia
• Spence vs. Crawford
• Spence vs. Keef Thurman
• Crawford vs. Keef Thurman
• ✅ Crawford vs. Porter
• Joshua vs. Wilder
• Wilder vs. Ruiz
• Wilder vs. Joshua
• Fury vs. Joshua
• ✅ Derevyanchenko vs. Charlo
• Golovkin vs. Saunders
• ✅ Canelo vs. Saunders
• Brook vs. Khan
• Rios vs. Victor Ortiz
• Beterbiev vs. Bivol (for some reason)
• Malignaggi vs. McGregor
• Devin Haney vs. Tank Davis
• Tank Davis vs. Lomachenko
• Tank Davis vs. Shakur Stevenson
• Mikey Garcia vs. Lomachenko
• ✅ Wilder vs. Fury rematch
• Teofimo vs. Loma rematch
• Teofimo vs. Devin Haney
• Teofimo vs. Tank Davis
• Teofimo vs. Ryan Garcia
• Ryan Garcia vs. Devin Haney
• Ryan Garcia vs. Tank Davis
• Ryan Garcia vs. Shakur Stevenson
• Jake Paul vs. Conor McGregor
• Steven 'So Cold' Nelson vs. Edgar Bumslanga

I missed a lot, any others?

Edited for current relevancy

[Bad_Guy]

Daniel Jacobs vs. anyone?
Loma vs. Pac at 140
Adonis Stevenson's retirement
Ward vs. Usyk (assuming Ward comes back)
Naoya Inoue vs. Estrada/Rungvisai

[Pandur]

Malignaggi vs. McGregor
Kovalev vs. Stevenson
Brook vs. Khan

Malignaggi vs. McGregor is just a circus fight.

McGregor's home sport is not boxing and Malignaggi is retired.

Kovalev vs. Stevenson has lost it's hype since Adonis has done nothing the last couple of years and since Kovalev has lost twice to Ward.

Brook vs. Khan is not really as big as it would have been 2-3 years ago.

Neither holds a belt and both are coming back from losses.

Other than that, it's a very good list.

[Joe Beamish]

Thurman v. anyone good

[jmrf4435]

marinating is a lie, ruins the sport, mainly a tool for promoters to maximize cash.

Spence and Crawford will not fight for at least 3 years because of this ****ty ideology

[N/A]

[*]Thurman vs. Crawford

Fight makes no sense politically.

[*]Thurman vs. Spence

This fight is penciled in for early March 2019 on CBS.

[*]Spence vs. Crawford

Fight makes no sense politically.

[*]Garcia vs. Lomachenko

Fight makes no sense politically.

[*]Joshua vs. Wilder

Fight is politically difficult, but not impossible, and will likely happen this year.

[*]Fury vs. Joshua

Fight is politically difficult, but not impossible, and will likely happen if Fury can prove he's even a shell of what he once was.

[*]Fury vs. Wilder

Fury will likely retire again after AJ destroys him, so I don't think you'll ever see this fight.

[*]Malignaggi vs. McGregor

The public doesn't care about this fight. Your list is getting so stupid that I regret even starting to type a reply to you.

[*]Golovkin vs. Charlo

Fight is politically impossible other than as a mandatory going to purse bid. The public would be furious if the WBC ordered this fight now and tried to block the Canelo rematch.

[*]Golovkin vs. Saunders

Blame Canelo. The fight would have happened last June, but Canelo demanded no interim fights.

[*]Eubank Jr. vs. Charlo

They're not in the same weight class and nobody is clamoring for this fight. Another stupid one. You kill the credibility of your list with this kind of silliness.

[*]Eubank Jr. vs. Golovkin

Eubank blatantly ducked the fight.

[*]Kovalev vs. Stevenson

Kovalev blatantly ducked the fight.

[*]Brook vs. Khan

Now that they're both with Hearn, this fight is almost guaranteed to happen.

[Eddy Current]

Possibly Spence vs Canelo but not for a while? May be a stretch but Spence did mention it.

It seems like Spence will move up to 154 while he still has plenty of prime left. If Canelo does well in the GGG rematch and continues winning at 160 after that, and Spence beats some good 154 guys, maybe a fight at 160 or a catchweight b/t 154 and 160 is within the realm of possibility.

[jmrf4435]

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

[Combat Talk Radio]

Malignaggi vs. McGregor is just a circus fight.

McGregor's home sport is not boxing and Malignaggi is retired.

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.

Kovalev vs. Stevenson has lost it's hype since Adonis has done nothing the last couple of years and since Kovalev has lost twice to Ward.

Oh I agree with you. Doesn't mean the fight wouldn't do big numbers if it did get announced.

Brook vs. Khan is not really as big as it would have been 2-3 years ago.

Maybe. Would still do big numbers if it happened.

[*]Thurman vs. Crawford

Fight makes no sense politically.

"Marinate"

[*]Thurman vs. Spence

This fight is penciled in for early March 2019 on CBS.

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

[*]Spence vs. Crawford

Fight makes no sense politically.

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

"Marinate"

[*]Garcia vs. Lomachenko

Fight makes no sense politically.

Despite Loma saying he'd do it.

"Marinate"

[*]Joshua vs. Wilder

Fight is politically difficult, but not impossible, and will likely happen this year.

There's no way Wilder and Joshua fight in 2018. Not with Wilder asking for 50% and the remote chance Joshua gets upset by Parker. Come on man.

[*]Fury vs. Wilder

Fury will likely retire again after AJ destroys him, so I don't think you'll ever see this fight.

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.

[*]Malignaggi vs. McGregor

The public doesn't care about this fight. Your list is getting so stupid that I regret even starting to type a reply to you.

If McGregor fights ANYONE in boxing, it pulls big numbers. You know that.

The MF'er could fight Kristian Laight at a catchweight and it'd probably still pull at least $10 million on a 90/10 split.

[*]Golovkin vs. Charlo

Fight is politically impossible other than as a mandatory going to purse bid. The public would be furious if the WBC ordered this fight now and tried to block the Canelo rematch.

I disagree. I think the draw has more people disenchanted than you think. I believe that outcome was somehow fixed to force a rematch when one guy clearly won a close fight. I believe that proper marketing of Charlo's various brutal knockouts would have people salivating for that fight. I believe Canelo's lack of power against a guy his size would cause people to really question whether a rematch is worth doing.

But that's my opinion.

[*]Golovkin vs. Saunders

Blame Canelo. The fight would have happened last June, but Canelo demanded no interim fights.

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 - now you got him coming out talking about retiring. Why not? More power to him.

[*]Eubank Jr. vs. Charlo

They're not in the same weight class and nobody is clamoring for this fight.

Sorry, I forgot they banned catchweights. My bad

[*]Eubank Jr. vs. Golovkin

Eubank blatantly ducked the fight.

Eubank Sr. did. Eubank Jr. didn't. In any event this is the textbook definition of letting it marinate. Senior wanted Golovkin to lose that knockout power - you notice how many guys called him out after Jacobs took him the distance.

[*]Kovalev vs. Stevenson

Kovalev blatantly ducked the fight.

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

[*]Brook vs. Khan

Now that they're both with Hearn, this fight is almost guaranteed to happen.

As noted above, multiple years too late and after both suffered brutal knockouts. Textbook definition of marinate.

[STREET CLEANER]

Eubank does not count for any marination at this time. Another hyped fighter