The Greatest Fights... That Never Were

Sports fans fondly recall the greatest boxing matches ofall time, but an obsessive conversation among fight fanswill also focus on those bouts that ‘should have been’,but, for a variety of reasons, never happened.

In The Greatest Boxing Matches That Never Were, theauthor talks about the unique culture of professionalboxing where corruption, fear, racism and evenfriendship, prevented many great fight contests fromever happening.

The book looks at the lost match-ups over the years andthe careers of some of the featured fighters; MuhammadAli, Larry Holmes, Lennox Lewis and Tim Witherspoon,who was denied a showdown with ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson bypromotor Don King, right up to the much anticipatedFloyd Mayweather/Manny Pacqauio bout—the biggestfight in history not to happen.