Fighters Who Later Turned Soft And Became Reluctant To Take risks?

Shawn Porter
Danny Garcia
Manny Pacquiao
Demetrius Andrade
Alex Povetkin ( bet he won't pop dirty for AJ)
Kovalev, Beterbiev, Bivol, Gvozdyk none of these guys have or will fight each other and they are all in the same division.

 

When did Ward fight Cloud?

Mayweather is a guy that started taking the path of least resistance.

 

Spot on.

 

Wlad and Rigo are the least willing to take the risk fighters I have seen since I've been following boxing.

Rigo is not really as applicable to this thread as he's always been that way, but his first couple of fights he'd come out banging a bit, later on he would almost literally not throw anything that isn't a counter punch other than a pawing, weak, non landing jab if you want to count that.

Wlad is a better example since he fought with more bravado early in his career, got KO'd and after that it was literally nothing but a jab (which is very safe to use since he'd almost always be superior in that aspect) and in a blue moon a right hand if it's 100% safe to throw.

These two have prolonged quite a few fights they could have ended much earlier purely because they didn't want to take that 0.0001% risk that the other guy might KO them.

 

AJ falls into this category now too, he was a KO seeker early in his career, after tasting the canvas against Wlad, he's become a lot more safety minded I've noticed in the Parker fight.

 

he never fought top fighters to begin with. cherry picked powerless or small bums until getting a title shot, then ran from the rematch like it was Jason from Friday the 13th.