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The thing you should consider is that sometimes fighters who demonstrate something early go on to be the favorite almost every single outing afterwards. Even if they take on risks, people figure them to win.
For example, Khan has never been an underdog until this Canelo fight. It took fighting a P4P fighter competing at 8lbs above his weight to be an underdog. He was even being forecasted to be a solid favorite if he had chosen to rematch Garcia instead of Canelo, even though he already lost to him.
Similarly Mayweather might only have been an underdog against Genaro Hernandez, and was the favorite in every afterwards (To my knowledge anyway. Can't find any sources to suggest he was the underdog against Corrales as so many suggest). He was only <2/1 against Pacman, Canelo, ODLH and Corrales.
And now that the hype for Errol Spence is so big, who knows when we'll see him be the underdog. He's probably 50/50 against the best at WW.
TDLR: Being a favorite isn't proof in itself that a fighter isn't taking risks. It also depends on people's perception of the fighter and how wide the odds are.
For example, Khan has never been an underdog until this Canelo fight. It took fighting a P4P fighter competing at 8lbs above his weight to be an underdog. He was even being forecasted to be a solid favorite if he had chosen to rematch Garcia instead of Canelo, even though he already lost to him.
Similarly Mayweather might only have been an underdog against Genaro Hernandez, and was the favorite in every afterwards (To my knowledge anyway. Can't find any sources to suggest he was the underdog against Corrales as so many suggest). He was only <2/1 against Pacman, Canelo, ODLH and Corrales.
And now that the hype for Errol Spence is so big, who knows when we'll see him be the underdog. He's probably 50/50 against the best at WW.
TDLR: Being a favorite isn't proof in itself that a fighter isn't taking risks. It also depends on people's perception of the fighter and how wide the odds are.
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