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We all know the more famous fighters who were accused of ducking and cherry picking (mayweather), and without rehashing the merits of it, at least those guys defended themselves against critics to an extent.
But it's like the New Crop of Fighters have taken the Ducking/cherrypicking/being a smart businessman thing and made it fashionable. Like they're not even denying it and are unashamedly boasting about it. Deonte Wilder is the prime example of it. But there are others.
This is not a Eastern-European phenomenon (despite criticism leveled at GGG, which is anecdotal. Eastern Euro's have no concept of fake trash talking to sell tickets OR being a calculated businessman cherrypicker.). This is the in-thing in Western culture, predominantly the U.S. -- Carl Froch also displayed it with regards to facing Andre Ward. But individual cases are not as important as the overall culture.
We all know that in fake Wrestling (a western creation) like the WWE, they have a thing called a "heel" who is usually a cowardly bad guy character who cheats and avoids one-on-one confrontations with the Good guy character. The heel is usually very cocky and arrogant and boasts about his cheating and cowardly ways.
We now have Rap songs dedicated to how cool it is to duck fights and make "smart calculated decisions" as if part of the world wide Money Team. It's being popularized in Urban culture like sagging beltless pants and cornrows. The traditional machismo culture found in ethnic boxing circles (i.e. Mexican & puerto rican fighting culture) is also being poisoned & infiltrated by these western ideas, as seen by businessman Miguel Cotto - who in his last few fights referred to himself as the "A-side" during difficult negotiations while publicly acknowledging that he is ducking the biggest challenge in the division he was campaigning in. We had Jacobs and Quillin publicly acknowledging their ducking of GGG. We have Money Stevenson who thought he was signing a Mayweather-esque Showtime contract that is worth millions.
We also have active defenders on this forum of the ducking & cherrypicking business formula, who are most likely criminal degenerates. The types who would shoot you in the back before mugging you (as happened to the great Vernon Forrest).
But it's like the New Crop of Fighters have taken the Ducking/cherrypicking/being a smart businessman thing and made it fashionable. Like they're not even denying it and are unashamedly boasting about it. Deonte Wilder is the prime example of it. But there are others.
This is not a Eastern-European phenomenon (despite criticism leveled at GGG, which is anecdotal. Eastern Euro's have no concept of fake trash talking to sell tickets OR being a calculated businessman cherrypicker.). This is the in-thing in Western culture, predominantly the U.S. -- Carl Froch also displayed it with regards to facing Andre Ward. But individual cases are not as important as the overall culture.
We all know that in fake Wrestling (a western creation) like the WWE, they have a thing called a "heel" who is usually a cowardly bad guy character who cheats and avoids one-on-one confrontations with the Good guy character. The heel is usually very cocky and arrogant and boasts about his cheating and cowardly ways.
We now have Rap songs dedicated to how cool it is to duck fights and make "smart calculated decisions" as if part of the world wide Money Team. It's being popularized in Urban culture like sagging beltless pants and cornrows. The traditional machismo culture found in ethnic boxing circles (i.e. Mexican & puerto rican fighting culture) is also being poisoned & infiltrated by these western ideas, as seen by businessman Miguel Cotto - who in his last few fights referred to himself as the "A-side" during difficult negotiations while publicly acknowledging that he is ducking the biggest challenge in the division he was campaigning in. We had Jacobs and Quillin publicly acknowledging their ducking of GGG. We have Money Stevenson who thought he was signing a Mayweather-esque Showtime contract that is worth millions.
We also have active defenders on this forum of the ducking & cherrypicking business formula, who are most likely criminal degenerates. The types who would shoot you in the back before mugging you (as happened to the great Vernon Forrest).
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