ducks

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

 

ali faced norton 3 times , how can you say he avoided him ?
by not fighting him a 4th time ?

 

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.

 

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)