Which great fighters to all intents and purposes ducked no one?

its easy to not "duck" anyone when you're begging for big fights

 

Holyfield ducked Lewis for a long time.

 

I know, fighting Winky Wright and DLH....anybody could beat those guys...they should fight a future HOFamer and ATgreats like Margarito...

 

He also KO'd Tito, TKO'D Glen Johnson, fought RJJ, and Jeramin Taylor twice. Let's not also forget the man went up two weight classes at the age of 41 to beat Tarver

 

he ducked alot of fighters. Tszyu, Phillips, Forrest, Wright, Page, and Jose Luis Lopez. In hindsight it looks as if only two three of those fights would have done anything for Oscar in terms of history, but at the time they were all fights that should have been made.

 

Ali

 

Hopkins fought winky at 16 pounds above winkys normal weight,winky being p4p shows the weakness of the sport.....De la hoya v pbf,de la hoya is an old man with no stamina and pbf is a fake lagacy chasing runner,he should man up and fight prime guys at his normal weight,he only fough hoya for the papers,hack i would fight hoya for that money and then retire.....
Hopkins doesnt want to take on any of the current live contendors at lt heavy or super middle,he dont even want to revenge his losses to taylor!!!!!! Hoppo just want to make money and chase a fake superficial legacy,which is fine but real fans can see through him and pbf....
For years hoopo never rematched with jones, never fought toney,jackson,benn,eubank,calzaghe or any prime lt hevies with a pulse....Guys like duran,hagler,hearns,pac and such like put him to shame....Remember hopkins could have been a supermiddle/lt heavy years ago but choose to build up a paper legacy rather than challenge jones,hill,mccallum,toney and such like....

Decebel; i dont think it will change unless the unifying bodies merge or work together and force champions to make real fights....That scenario may be unlikely as money talks.....We need to reward risks and exciting fighters.....Make rings smaller,penalise butting,holding and running/overdefensiveness....Strip champs who dodge top contendors for no reason....Put boxing back on mainstream tv....Only promote fighters who are exciting....

 

Lennox....he ducked no one and was by far the most ducked heavyweight of the past 40 years.

 

Jack Dempsey. After he lost to Tunney, he rematched him.

 

I remember watching ESPN classic one day and Larry Merchant had this to say about Dempsey, "He didn't many fights, and he never fought a Black heavyweight". I'm not criticsing Dempsy, I just always thought that was a funny quote.

 

Active Champions/former Champions I can think about right now (in no particular order):

Shane Mosely
Juan Manuel Marquez
Marco Antonio Barrera
Glen Johnson
Chris Byrd
Bernard Hopkins
Winky Wright
Jose Luis Castillo
Joel Cassamayor
Israel Vasquez

 

there is another thread going on about how ruiz never ducjed anyone and in all tenses and purposes he didnt duck anyone