When a fighter has the POWER to pick his opponents, and fighting those opponents make perfect sense, moneywise, rankingwise, and legacywise, yet the purposefully make excuse why they refuse to take that fight, it's a duck and nothing else.
We can say it was Atlas who ducked Wladimir, but it was really Potvetkin giving him hints he didn't want the fight. PERIOD.
Same goes for Roid Mayflower. He ducked Pacqioua.
Ward ducked Bute. PERIOD.
Bowe ducked Lewis.
The list goes on and on and on.
Yeah, these men make a living fighting, and losing to Bute would have cost Ward his p4p ranking, Bowe losing to Lewis wouldve hurt him, as would Roid getting starched by Pacqioua, but without those fights, those guys are chicken **** duck ass *****es....PERIOD.
To answer the title question, no fighters technically "shouldn't" be scared but it happens.
Who was the guy that was scared ****less to fight Duran? He didnt even want to come out of his corner. Ended up being a highlight KO. Pretty brutal. What fight was that? SRS
There are fighters that are actually scared and duck fights, Ricky Hatton was a fighter who ducked his main rival like the plague when he was an up and comers, He knew losing to him would derail everything that he wanted so they took the easy way out by feeding him bums after bums until they fancies his chances enough to pit him again an inactive Tsyzu..
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