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It's surprising Canelo didn't find an excuse to fight Caleb Truax.
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The biggest duck in history was when Rid**** Bowe threw his WBC belt in the garbage to avoid Lennox LewisComment
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munguia the ppv star with all his amazing hall of fame wins! cant fight benavidez though hes a nobody! guy ranked #1 for 5 years is a nobody? you cant say that with a straight faceComment
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Remind me again, who's the fighter who unified all 4 168 belts and challenged 2 champs at 175, and who's the oversized fighter who ducked 168 unifications, dropped his belt twice, and rejected a 175 title shot?
Benavidez got the favorable hype early even though Smith, Plant and Saunders all had better wins than him at the time, yet David refused to capitalize and instead ducked out on the other champs in the division. To further break things down (because the more you break things down the worse it looks for Benavidez lol):
Benavidez claimed his first vacant title by being allowed to cut in front of actual WBC #1 Smith. Smith complained so he was given a mandatory spot with "diamond belt" status which was supposed to entitle him to a title shot, but David dumped his belt rather than take the fight. Yildirim and Dirrell ended up fighting for the vacant title in a fight that was cut short on a headclash cut on Dirrell and ended with a controversial SD. Yildirim petitioned for the immediate rematch but the WBC pulled strings for Benavidez again and gave him the next shot at Dirrell while placing Yildirim as his other mandatory. What did David do with the belt this time? His manager Sampson dismissed Smith who had been petitioning for the unification, telling Smith to wait in line lol, even though Smith was the division top dog by then holding the WBA and Ring titles. Sampson also publicly rejected a Plant unification for the remainder of his time with the title. The WBC eventually ordered him to face his backed up mandatories Smith and Yildirim once and for all, and what did David do now? Dump his belt a second time despite knowing Canelo was lining up titles. Afterward, the WBC pulled strings for him again by giving a title shot at 175 but he ducked out yet again despite blowing weight by 3 pounds and ended up spending the next couple of years cherrypicking random gatekeepers Angulo, Ellis and Davis then topped it off by fighting GGG/Saunders' washed middleweight leftovers Lemieux as his only fight of '22 which David still brags about to this day like it was a legacy fight lol.
David finally took his version of a career step up fight but that was fighting one of Canelo's leftovers and instead of making a statement got taken the distance so he immediately stepped down his opposition against a guy moving up who'd never faced or beaten a champ even in the lower divisions. And he just walked away from an offer just to take another random fight nobody is going to pay to watch. Meanwhile Canelo did the work David ducked out on and has faced 8 reigning champs plus 2 mandatories in his past 10 fights whereas David faces the inferior opposition ducking out on the fights he took along with being less active, but people are out here pretending he's an ambitious fighter when he spent his career padding his 0.
24daa2472cbf59ecbb4d7b298858eaab6fd653d0.pnj.jpgLast edited by Caxcan; 03-13-2024, 03:21 PM.Comment
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It is embarrassing at this point!Comment
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