BoxingScene Callout!(What do you consider ducking?)

[boliodogs]

To me only world champions can be duckers. If a boxer holds no world title belt he can fight whoever he wants. A champion who refuses to fight his top challenger when offered a fair fight for good money is ducking. A champion who refuses to fight another champion in his weight class when offered a fair fight for good money is ducking. A champion who refuses to go up in weight to fight a champion in the weight class above him is NEVER ducking. A champion is only ducking when he refuses fair challenges from worthy opponents his own weight class, not from boxers in heavier weight classes.

[b00g13man]

If you don’t like the fighter it’s a duck.

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[Robbie Barrett]

If you turn down the biggest financial fight available without a good reason it's ducking. This is prizefighting after all.

[Citizen Koba]

It's a BS term and massively overused around here. About the only time I'd consider it even vaguely acceptable is in the event of a titlist refusing to fight their mandatory, and even then not if there's a good financial argument to be made for choosing a different fight.

[BattlingNelson]

If you turn down the biggest financial fight available without a good reason it's ducking. This is prizefighting after all.

Sounds like you believe Ward is the biggest ducker in recent memory and that Felix Sturm didn't duck Golovkin.

[Derranged]

A top fighter not fighting another top fighter in his same weight class.

[redmish]

Continuously calling someone out knowing they have a fight scheduled and then pricing yourself out during negotiations. Can't remember who does this though.🤔

[alexguiness]

Khan ducking Brook when the fight was right there ready to be made - both fighters in a huge risk / reward situation.

I also think Eubank ducking GGG was pretty shameful, the fight was pulled for no other reason than Eubank realized he was swimming out of his depth.

For me, the true definition of a duck is when a fighter bases their whole persona on being 'unbeatable' and willing to fight 'anyone, anywhere, anytime' and then sinking into the shadows when they are actually called out on their own Bull****.