Has there ever been a long tenured heavyweight champion who avoided no particular opp

Its ok to be a fanboi. Lets just keep it real.

Im a fanboi too.

I had to accept Tyson was destroyed by Douglas even tho there is a myriad of reasons to excuse the loss.

I like Fury , but he did duck Pricey.

Bringing up Wlads ducks isn't what people want to be doing , but you feed the haters. You give people more reasons to dislike Wlad than reasons to like him.

 

True, but Wlad has something like 60 fights. That's a lot of fights for a current fighter.

 

Corrie Sanders kind of jumps off the page to me.

Not a slap against Wlad, who has taken on pretty much the best challenges out there (his brother aside, for which you have to give them a pass IMO), but Sanders was available and it obviously didn't happen.

 

Wlad was only offering Toney 1m. Clearly a lowball offer to push Toney away. He got 2m for the Rahman fight.

Toney clowned Wlad in the wild card gym.

 

How about ducking rematches?

 

You talking about Lennox Lewis?? :yep

 

The answer is, it is impossible to say.

However good a champion's resume looks, somebody will always be able to point to somebody they should have fought, and they might have been avoiding somebody that would never cross your mind.

 

McCall and Rahman were the two men that beat Lewis.:deal

 

What matters to me is overall quality of opposition, and , to me, Wlad is not near the top of the list of heavyweight champions in that regard. In my view the quality isn't there so even if he doesn't duck a lot of fighters, his quality of opposition hasn't been high. In short, there have been few really good fighters for him to duck in his reign.