Which fighters out there ducked the least to obtain Greatness?

**Burning Desire** · 02-04-2008, 12:59 PM

Originally posted by ELPacman

Morales? Barrera? Pacquiao? Tszyu? Trinidad? Mayorga? LoL. Which opponents fought anyone regardless of difficulty just so they could be remembered for fighting the best out there? Name some.

Sugar Ray Robinson
Mike McCallum
Muhammad Ali
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Pernell Whitaker
Roberto Duran
Evander Holyfield
Ricardo Lopez
Salvador Sanchez
Sam Langford

Just to name a few.

**BrendanWoodside** · 02-04-2008, 01:02 PM

Jermain Taylor has never ducked anyone. I don't know if I would call him great that

**Silencers** · 02-04-2008, 01:02 PM

Originally posted by Burning Desire

Sugar Ray Robinson
Mike McCallum
Muhammad Ali
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Pernell Whitaker
Roberto Duran
Evander Holyfield
Ricardo Lopez
Salvador Sanchez
Sam Langford

Just to name a few.

Good list. I'll add Marvin Hagler, Joe Louis and Larry Holmes.

**TheGreatA** · 02-04-2008, 01:03 PM

Muhammad Ali ducked no one and even came out of retirement/inactiveness to face the best.

He also gave everyone rematches (except Foreman but Foreman can only blame himself for losing to Jimmy Young).

Some might say Ali didn't give rematches to Young and Shavers but he was an old man by then.

**Silencers** · 02-04-2008, 01:04 PM

Originally posted by TheManchine

Muhammad Ali ducked no one and even came out of retirement/inactiveness to face the best.

He also gave everyone rematches (except Foreman but Foreman can only blame himself for losing to Jimmy Young).

Indeed, shame he did it one time too many.

**Scott9945** · 02-04-2008, 01:04 PM

Originally posted by ELPacman

Morales? Barrera? Pacquiao? Tszyu? Trinidad? Mayorga? LoL. Which opponents fought anyone regardless of difficulty just so they could be remembered for fighting the best out there? Name some.

No matter who you name you can almost always find names missing from their resume, especially in the last 20 years. Often it is no fault of their own but due to situations out of their control. But to answer your question the first name that comes to me is Holyfield. He feared nobody.

**BrendanWoodside** · 02-04-2008, 01:05 PM

Originally posted by silencers98

Good list. I'll add Marvin Hagler, Joe Louis and Larry Holmes.

I like that list as well.. Can you throw smokin joe on there

**Silencers** · 02-04-2008, 01:05 PM

I don't think Lennox Lewis ducked anyone.

**Tuggers1986** · 02-04-2008, 01:07 PM

Ali, Frazier, Hagler

Which fighters out there ducked the least to obtain Greatness?