LEGITIMATE and demonstrable blatant ducks.

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Leonard seemed to duck Pryor

 

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Roy Jones legitimately ducked Michael Nunn in '98.

 

Some infamous duckings that are legitimate would be Bowe-Lewis and Sturm-Golovkin.

 

Martin Murray ducking Peter Quillin. According to Schaefer, so to be taken with a grain of salt, Quillin was willing to travel to England but Murray's promoters did everything for this fight not to happen.

 

George Foreman quite clearly ducked Tony Tucker.

 

He called him out when he wasn't campaigning in his division, rejected a career high payday, by far, and continued to claim he was ducked when he was the one that didn't take a far more than reasonable offer from the man he was supposedly chasing. If that were David Haye and Wladimir Klitschko, you'd never get off his arse and go to each and every thread about him and call him a ducker. You can know Aaron in the biblical sense and it wouldn't change anything about it.

 

Didn't Arthur also say "I'd fight him for free" ?

Sturm missed so many opportunities.

 

Look, from 2008 to 2011 Bute was ranked 2nd or 1st in the Super Middleweights by the Ring magazine every year and was ranked 3rd in 2012, he was fully recognized by the boxing world as one of the top fighters in the division, Ward had even made comments about how Bute was the top man in the division and how Bute's exclusion from the Super Six meant that no matter who won they wouldn't be the top man in the division until they beat Bute. ([FONT=&quot]"Some people would argue that the Super Six winner is the best; some would argue that [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Bute[/FONT][FONT=&quot] wasn't there so they're not the best," Ward says. "As a competitor, you want to face the best. He's the main guy out there, so you want to go right at him.")[/FONT]

If anyone in the Super Middleweights had any legitimacy to be Ward's next opponent coming out of the Super Six it was Bute. And the fact is, Ward had done absolutely nothing to "earn" his shot against Kessler for the WBA (Super) Super Middleweight Title and he didn't even bring anything to the table, he was an little known underdog with no drawing power who the majority expected to lose, so he and his fans can hardly sit there and say that a man who had held the IBF Title five years and defended it nine times in front of large crowds in Canada hadn't earnt a shot. He was the IBF Champion trying to get a unification fight for pity sake! Not some seven fight novice!

 

A duck is not only when one fighter calls out another only to back down, its also when a fighter is called out but avoids a challenge. Toney and Jones both expressed a desire to fight Eubank, Toney even called out him and Benn on live on TV, but Eubank never had any intention of fighting either of them.

It wasn't a duck because he was afraid of them, it was a duck because, in the case of Jones, he knew he would be out-matched and didn't see the point in having a fight he knew he'd lose when he got enough money just defending his WBO Title against whoever was put against him and, in the case of Toney, because he had no desire to have another war with a big puncher like he had with Benn and Watson and likewise had no financial incentive to change his mind.

 

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