What constitutes ducking?

I've always wondered about this. This is one of the terms being thrown around the forum pretty often (along with shot, exposed). What exactly constitutes ducking? And what are good examples of ducking?

If fighter A calls out fighter B during a post fight interview and nothing happens? Is fighter B automatically ducking fighter A? Or do we have to consider the other factors like marketability, reward vs. risk etc before calling it that?

Is a fighter choosing a low risk/low reward fight for a tune up fight ducking if he has high risk/low reward options?

Or is it only ducking if fighters are avoiding high risk-high reward fights? (or in other words, avoiding good match ups that everyone wants to see?)

 

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Yeah, that was what I was thinking too. It's hard to say anyone is ducking someone unless it's really blatant. Otherwise there's just really too much politics involved to be able to say for sure.

 

By that logic JMM ducked Pac for 4 years when he opted to go after chris john for 30k instead of having a rematch with Pac for something like 700k. But I don't really think JMM ducked Pac and I would say some promotional politics were at play. It's rarely simple I think.