in this thread give your list of fighters and their avoided opponents. one can also give excuses and reasons why the fights did not happen. i start , and may edit my list in the future : floyd mayweather : miguel cotto paul williams antonio margaritto shane mosley : floyd mayweather paul williams manny pacquiao : shane mosley juan manuel marquez : naseem hamed (marquez was hamed's mandatory but chose not to get his shot) roy jones : steve collins frankie liles gerald mcclellan julian jackson bernard hopkins : chad dawson reggie johnson julian jackson mike mccallum kelly pavlik : paul williams george foreman : tony tucker lennox lewis larry holmes : george foreman riddick bowe : lennox lewis alexander povetkin : Wladimir Klitschko (povetkin the mandatory repeatedly chooses to face others , i think he could answer himself to the question : Wlad vs. Povetkin , who wins and how ?) did one of the below duck anyone : vitali klitschko , lennox lewis , wladimir klitschko , nikolay valuev mike tyson , evander holyfield , oliver mccall , david tua , sultan ibragimov , ruslan chagaev , chris byrd john ruiz , michael moorer , hassim rahman ah , and btw : http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=202069
Ray Leonard. He steered clear of so many even when he excused himself from exile: Aaron Pryor, Hagler, rematches with Duran and Hearns, Micheal Nunn, Julian Jackson.
Wait, what matches against Duran and Hearns are you talking about. Are you saying he ducked them after having fought Hearns twice and Duran three times? Or are you saying that Ray dodged certain moments in which he didn't fight either Hearns or Duran....either way I'm kinda confused in your statement. Could you clear it up? Just for the Duran and Hearns parts...
he had 2 fights with hearns and 3 with duran. did he really avoid pryor ? i think pryor could not ever expect a better outcome against him than duran got , and what would it achieve to leonard fighting such a smaller man ? it's a lose-lose situation and i don't think he'd lose in the ring. but did he really duck pryor ? anyone knows ?
i did not say he ducked anyone. i asked if someone knows about such a case because i don't and never heard of.
Leonard told Champion Pipino Cuevas on National TV he would fight him. Then: This content is protected
So what constitutes a duck??? Seems way to many variables. 2 fighters who could have met but didn't...so whoever you don't like ducked the other? a fight that is not made because management did not want it? because an agreement could not be reached (again choose the fighter you don't like and blame him) becuase it is not as lucrative as another deal? because it is seen as higher risk than the reward would equte to? or where 1 boxer is truely afraid to fight the other?
someone (Kal) asked it in the more interesting thread (which some moderator closed and this moderator should be banned) i did about it . http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/...d.php?t=202069 there you have examples and my answers. to formalize a 'duck' will be to simply state every wrong act that prevents a fight and is done because a fighter fears from the loss he knows he will suffer (financial reasons are understood in my book , you can not blame someone preferring one fight b/c it will double his income / give him 100k more - this is real money , especially for those who heavily pay with their health for it)