Famous rivals or competitors that never faced each other

[RexChapmanFan]

Whether it's sports, combat, intellectual debate, etc., in many facets of life and competition, there often seems to be competitors or compatriots whom you'd love to see 'face-off' so to speak, but frustratingly never do. You want to see how their skills would match-up, but it seems it was or is just not destined.

What examples most come to mind? Here's mine:

Chuck Norris vs. Bruce Lee
Michael Jordan vs. Lebron James (different eras, but you wonder what would've happened if they were contemporaries)
Marciano vs. Mike Tyson

 

[Cheese]

In B4 Floyd and Pac fans take over this thread

 

[H0nkey K0ng]

I would have loved to see a prime Gerald McClellan vs a prime Roy Jones Jr. on a professional level. They met in the ammys. That's just small time business though

 

[elzar]

leaping lanny poffo and randy mach0 man savage

 

[ventrue]

Money/Pac Man
GSP vs. Anderson
Fedor vs. UFC

Those three make me a sad panda.

 

[Zer]

Ronda has surpassed Pac as Floyd's main nemesis

 

[EleazarI**]

floyd/manny

 

[knuckleroll**]

Rogan ~ Snipes

 

[ventrue]

Uncle Dana vs. Tito

 

[Kevin Rudd]

Frank Shamrock and Sakuraba

 

[RexChapmanFan]

Doesn't just have to be fights.

C.S. Lewis vs. Bertrand Russell in a debate on God's existence

 

[The13]

Of course, prime Ali vs prime Tyson
And from pop-culture, I guess, Yoda vs Vader or Imperator Palpatine. I can't remember, I think he fought against one of them

 

[Spliff]

Bert and Ernie. I swear they never faced each other, only the camera.

 

[Project 2501]

Fedor vs Lesnar

 

[MadSquabbles500]

How about PBF vs Margarito?

Or how about Lennox vs Vitali for real?

Or Donald Brashear vs George Parros

Or Donald Brashear vs Milan Lucic

 

[Magooglie]

Rickson/Sakuraba in a no time limit match

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Metallica and Megadeth

 

[AznCezi187]

BHop and James Toney

 

[Zer]

One question I've had for a while - Did 'let me bang bro' actually get to bang in the end? Who was he looking to fight?

 

[SwamiLeoni]

Bruce Baumgartner vs. Aleksandr Karelin in a cage match hell in a cell inferno boiler room brawl.