Fearless boxers that never ducked anyone

[BennyST]

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.

Yeah, his habitual **** tap was always a little disconcerting though.

[Bushidō]

malignaggi tops my list. dude would fight anyone if the price is right.

fought cotto on his prime and went 12 rounds with a broken jaw.

Malignaggi agreed.

The fact that he has to fight guys with absolutely no punching power is even more amazing. Just think about that. He doesn't have that ace under his sleeve. He has to pretty much grind it out and try to win a decision.

[-Kev-]

Well keeping it current, although i'm not in love with his boxing skills or have him as a favorite, or even think he has won all of his fights, I would have to say Carl Froch. He's fought every one and I can't really think of any fighter who he has avoided. For every "Froch is avoiding Ward" post, he did indeed fight Ward regardless if he is avoiding a rematch.

I think Bradley, if he hadn't ducked Khan would have been up there as well.

Andre Ward has never ducked any one.

I honestly can't reasonably say that Bernard Hopkins ducked any one.

It is in my opinion that Floyd Mayweather Jr has never ducked or dodged any opponent, despite the popular belief and the label that Arum stuck on Mayweather. I think that Mayweather's beef with Arum backfired because in the eyes of many fans, it appears that Floyd ducked a bunch of TR fighters like Margarito, Cotto, and Pacquiao, when in reality he/Haymon just doesn't want to do business with Bob Arum. Eliminate Arum/TR and put all TR fighters in GBP and I am sure Floyd would have fought them all.

Juan Manuel Marquez, despite currently being called a ducker at 40 years old for not wanting to fight Provodnikov because it will not do anything for his legacy, I see something seriously wrong with boxing fans calling this man a ducker when from 2008-2013 this man has fought Ring champ Casamayor, #1 ranked Juan Diaz, jumped up 2 divisions to fight Mayweather, went back down to fight Diaz and Katsidis, went back up to fight Pacquiao twice, in the trilogy we was predicted to get steamrolled, then he KO's Pacquiao in the 4th fight and fights a close fight with Timothy Bradley. How can you call a fighter like that a coward or cherrypicker or ducker? Boxing fans are the real cowards.

Erislandy Lara takes on all comers. Molina, Williams, Martirosyan, Angulo, Trout. Called out Pirog, Martinez, Golovkin, rejected by all 3.

Lastly, I agree that Cotto has fought everyone.

[-Kev-]

DeMarcus Corley.

[manimgoindown]

Marvin Hagler #1 ....flew to England to beat Minter with his racist fansa there...pelted by beer bottles...fought Mugabe Hamso Lenoard on their own turf. Imagine someone like Floyd flying to the uK against Khan or the Filipines like Manny to take their title, in their home country from them.

They dont make them like Marvelous anymore

[BKM-2010]

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.

Oh, good one.

In fact he was so fearless that he fought Nigel Benn in England with a stadium filled with drunk hooligans.

He walked into that arena supremely confident, in fact overconfident.

[Ham Porter]

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.

Duran fought and beat Guts Ishimatsu before he went on to beat Gonzalez twice. They had been trying to set up a fight between Gonzalez and Duran in 1973 but Duran and his team walked away from the fight.

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.

Duran walked away from that fight, not Cervantes. He didn't have to fight him, but he had plenty of fights at that weight by that point and it was the biggest fight for him.

Andre Ward has never ducked any one.

[Porter's Dad]

It is in my opinion that Floyd Mayweather Jr has never ducked or dodged any opponent

[Jack Napier]

Kev's apparently high or having an off day today
and when did he say that shit in your sig?
dude is falling...fast

[Porter's Dad]

Kev's apparently high or having an off day today
and when did he say that shit in your sig?
dude is falling...fast

Click on the arrow next to the quote and it'll take you to the thread. The dude has always been whack.

And quoting Mayweather in this thread, of all threads, with that title, is just brilliant. Floyd has made two historically unprecedented demands (OST drug testing and that a fighter should leave his promoter) to block the one of the biggest fights in boxing history, yet apparently hasn't ducked or dodged anyone

If Floyd saw this thread, he'd mock all the fighters getting name-checked and ask how much money they have in their bank account.