Fearless boxers that never ducked anyone

[BafanaBafana]

[ELPacman]

James Toney came to mind. Chris Byrd. Mayorga. Vargas. Kostya Tszyu. Manny Pacquiao. Miguel Cotto. Arturo Gatti. Oscar Dela Hoya. Juan Manuel Marquez. Hmmm, there are quite a few really to be honest. It's generally the politics that get in the way or when a fighter gets to that point when he's a big seller and realizes he can make top dollar with minimal risk and feel that's ok. The fighters I mentioned generally never felt that way ever throughout their career and always took fights that made you question why the hell.

[$0uthpaw]

Zab Judah will fight anyone. . . . . . sadly never comes out on top.

[megadeth]

Can't defend Pac or Mayweather... Mayweather wanted no part of Margarito, Williams, Cotto (2009), and Pacquiao. Pacquiao didn't wanna fight Cotto at a comfortable weight (Rematch), and for god sakes he ducked Yuri Foreman lol

Pac/Margarito was talked about when Pac was moving up and Pac didnt want the fight. Williams said that he wanted to fight Pac as well as Mayweather, so if FMJ ducked him, then so did Pac. Cotto said he wasn't interested in the fight in 2009 either, so if it's a duck for Floyd, it's a duck for Cotto too. And there were lots of people that Pac could've fought at the lower weights, that didn't fit his style as well as the people he ended up fighting(Campbell, Gamboa, Guzman, Raheem)

[DARKSEID]

Erik Morales

One of the greatest men I have had the privilege of knowing about in my entire lifetime.

[MELLY-MEL...]

Hagler, evander, srl, srr, duran, chavez sr, cotto, pac, toney.

[BennyST]

Don't kid yourself, Pacf*rts; Pacquiao is even more guilty of cherry picking than Mayweather is. Avoided Guzman at 130, avoided Campbell at 135, and he b*tched out of fighting Yuri Foreman because he was "too tall" (goes on to fight a shopworn, inactive Margarito who's of a similar height.)








Only when he had nothing to lose and everything to gain. He ducked Rodolfo 'El Gato' Gonzalez when he held a portion of the lightweight title, and he walked away from fighting Antonio Cervantes.

Yeah, and instead fought the guy that beat the ****e out of Gonzalez, took his title and knocked him out twice.

If someone had decided to fight Marquez after he knocked Pac out, would you accuse him of ducking Pac? I don't think so. He fought the guy that beat Gonzalez twice for the title.

The Cervantes fight....that one I can understand. It's really one of the very few fights in Durans career that could have happened but didn't. Both in their primes, though in different weight classes. Would have been a great fight, and while Duran wanted it, and I'm sure Cervantes did too, and there was lots of talk of it in the mid to late 70's, Duran ended up taking a different route and taking bigger fights. He would have beaten Cervantes pretty clearly, just too much of everything, but it would have been good. But you know that it ended up being about money and Durans promoter/manager rather than any different fight that Duran wanted.

[BennyST]

he had a fractured cheekbone not a broken jaw. and no boxer at this level fears anyone, its the promoters and managers who are looking after their investments. if you have it in you to fear another man you will never reach world level, you have to overcome countless "boogeymen" to reach this level.

Yeah, it's funny when people talk about fighters ducking a fight. No fighter, particularly at the world level, decides to duck a fight. Most would take any fight, any time, whatever the circumstances. It's all about what the promoter and manager are willing to allow. If they have a team unwilling to take risks, they'll get that silly title of 'ducker' which is absurd.

The fighters, while having some input, really just allow the team to take of that stuff and they just ignore it and fight.

[-Jay-]

Gerald McClellan wasn't afraid of anyone and I don't believe he ever ducked anyone. Just look at what he did to Julian Jackson twice, says it all really.

[DARKSEID]

Nice Nod. ........