Unification fights that should have happened

[Bummy Davis]

when there are 2 great champions in one division or split titles that should be unified and are not....Roy Jones Darius M. for one......which other fights should have happened

[JohnThomas1]

Chandler - Pintor
Sanchez - Pedroza

[Longhhorn71]

Cuevas vs Leonard

[mr. magoo]

Arby's - Wendy's?

[TBooze]

Pedroza/Sanchez

Honeyghan/Brown

Muhammad/Spinks

Hearns/McCallum

[My2Sense]

Chandler - Pintor
Sanchez - Pedroza

First two I thought of when I saw this thread.

Also:

Cuevas-Palomino
Nazarov-Gonzales
Azumah Nelson -Tony Lopez
Hill -PC Williams

[AlFrancis]

McGuigan - Nelson
Conteh - Galindez

[la-califa]

Salvador Sanchez - Eusebio Pedroza
Pipino Cuevas - Carlos Palomino
Eddie Mustafa Muhammed - Matt Saad Mohammad
Jeff Chandler - Lupe Pintor
Alfonso Zamora - Carlos Zarate (Officially)
Larry Holmes -Mike Weaver II ( 1983)

[HomicideHenry]

Holmes-Coetzee

[CzarKyle]

Holmes-Coetzee

Man you beat me to it. You could also say any of the men that held "the other title" while Larry was champ. I'm not saying he avoided them, and I'm aware of the boxing politics at that time. It's a real shame that Holmes never faced off against men like Coetzee, Dokes, Thomas, Page, Tate, and Tubbs. It's even worse that he never took on Weaver for a second time. Or Witherspoon for that matter.

[Boilermaker]

What about Lewis v Bowe?
In hindsight, Tyson v Bowe might have been good to.
Foreman v Lewis would have been a lot better than the Lewis v Briggs unification that we eventually got.
Klitchsko v Klitchsko is also another fight that needs to take place in the future if both keep winning, but wont.

[Bummy Davis]

Lewis/Bowe
Holmes/Coetzee
Holmes/WeaverII
Holmes/Page
Holmes/Dokes
Holmes/Thomas
Holmes/Tate
Jones/D.M.
Vlad/Chagaev/Valuev
Salvador Sanchez - Eusebio Pedroza

[Bummy Davis]

Man you beat me to it. You could also say any of the men that held "the other title" while Larry was champ. I'm not saying he avoided them, and I'm aware of the boxing politics at that time. It's a real shame that Holmes never faced off against men like Coetzee, Dokes, Thomas, Page, Tate, and Tubbs. It's even worse that he never took on Weaver for a second time. Or Witherspoon for that matter.

It may have been politics in some cases but Holmes was pretty strong with the politicians .....Still whoever is at fault history will show that Larry missed out on unifying and a big payday to boot...why...they used influance to there benifit....History will show Larry is the biggest non-unification offender

[My2Sense]

Larry Holmes -Mike Weaver II ( 1983)

Of all the fights Holmes could've made, this is the one I would've wanted to see most of all. And even though Weaver had already lost to Holmes - in one of the best heavyweight fights in history - to me he was as deserving of a unification fight as any of the co-champions, as he had one of the longer and more distinguished reigns of them.

[MRBILL]

when there are 2 great champions in one division or split titles that should be unified and are not....Roy Jones Darius M. for one......which other fights should have happened


"Holmes-Coetzee" in '84 should've happened...... That would've been big..... But only the IBF & WBC titles would've been on the line...... "Spoon & Thomas" held the WBA title in '84......

MR.BILL

[MAG1965]

I think a fight which happened should have been a unification was Hearns vs. Duran in 1984. When Tommy and Roberto fought, Hearns was the WBC champ and Duran was the WBA champ, but they stripped Duran because he was fighting Hearns and not his mandatory McCallum.

[ThinBlack]

Yoko Gushiken-Hilario Zapata
Jeff Chandler-Lupe Pintor
Salvador Sanchez-Eusebio Pedroza.
Aaron Pryor-Saoul Mamby
Sammy Serrano-Alexis Arguello
Jung Koo Chang-Myung Woo Yuh.
Greg Page-Pinklon Thomas.

[Stevie G]

Lewis/Bowe
Holmes/Coetzee
Holmes/WeaverII
Holmes/Page
Holmes/Dokes
Holmes/Thomas
Holmes/Tate
Jones/D.M.
Vlad/Chagaev/Valuev
Salvador Sanchez - Eusebio Pedroza
Totally with you on those :good

[Sangria]

Jones-Benn at 168 in 1995.

[zadfrak]

DLH--Nazarov/Tszyu/Lopez
Chavez--Coggi. I thought his style was a lot tougher than the title challengers Julio fought. Or Chavez to have fought Norris at 150 like discussed.
John Tate--Holmes
Julian Jackson--Toney. Another fight talked about but King did not have Toney in his stable
Mcclellan-Jones.
Quartey--Trinidad
JC Gomez--Jirov

[Stevie G]

when there are 2 great champions in one division or split titles that should be unified and are not....Roy Jones Darius M. for one......which other fights should have happened
A Larry Holmes-Mike Weaver rematch in 1981. For the WBC/WBA titles.

[ThinBlack]

DeLeon-Ocasio.