Bowe ducked Lewis didnt he? Those times are pretty distant past now, cant quite remember how it was, only thing I know for sure, Holyfield was the only big name on his resume when he was champ. Ottke and Cal ducked each other, neither of them really wanted to go into the other guy's backyard for a fight. But Ottke was the man seeing he unified titles and won more than only one bauble at a time before Cal did the same some time later
You guys are very sure here. Are you certain this is not a knee-jerk reaction? Tell us who he ducked and why he is so clearly more a ducker than say Calzaghe.
Yea that was pretty bad. I would have love to see bowe vs lewis but he did fight holyfield 3 times in his prime and won 2 of the 3. The last fight holyfield wasn't 100% but still. I gotta give bowe props for those fights.
Ottke couldnt overall be called a ducker. It was made clear that he wanted no part of Calzaghe, Ottkes trainer even mentioned Ottke wasnt interested. But Ottke was a winner in 22 world title fights however you scored them, and rematched a couple of decisions that were debated. Ottke also beat alot of very good SMWs and was a unified champ. People are quick to dismiss Ottke as he only fought in Germany, but I dont know why thats a big deal, for years Jones Jnr only fought in America. Bowe though threw his world title in a bin rather than fight Lewis
On the other hand Ottkes promotor send Warren an offer but Calzaghe would have none of it happy to stay in Wales.
I've posted about how great roy jones jr was at 160 on this site, BUT RJJ ducked evander holyfield big time. classic trick: RJJ demands a laughable 75%+ of the money. RJJ wanted no part of holyfield, cool but then he tried to say holyfield was SCARED of him becuase holyfield wouldn't give up most of the money. even though holyfield was an ATG at the time already. this is what I remember becuase this could have been a cool fight but RJJ knew holyfield was trouble. so he fights the jab and clinch snoozer. RJJ could take a heavyweight punch though. but he was scared of holyfield IMO.
I dont know where you get stay in Wales, Calzaghe might be based in Wales but less than half of his world title fights were in Wales and Calzaghe was openly willing to travel. Ottkes trainer admitted Ottke didnt want to know
Calzaghe never ducked Ottke. Ever. He reportedly went as far as offering to fight Ottke in Germany for ONE euro. If you look at Calzaghe's record, it's littered with guys who were coming off a fight with Ottke. Calzaghe's ridiculously long title reign was in large part because he hoped to bait Ottke and Beyer into unification fights by massacring everybody they fought. Guy loses a SD in Germany to Ottke, Calzaghe destroys him in his next fight. That's How Calzaghe's title reign was so long against so many nondescript opponents. The whole time all he was doing was calling out Ottke and Beyer. As soon as they lost the titles Calzaghe collected them from Lacy and Kessler, two much more dangerous opponents who weren't afraid to offer Calzaghe a shot. As explained above, he ducked Calzaghe, thus making him a bigger ducker than Calzaghe, since the only guys you could accuse Calzaghe of ducking (without making yourself look like a ******) are Johnson and Dawson. Even those have explanations. Source?
Roy Jones with due respect ducked the top men of every division he fought in up to his fight with Ruiz