Which fighters refused to duck anybody in their career?

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You listed a shot to **** Mayorga as someone we wanted to see Cotto fight? He could have fought Sergio instead of that.

Yeah, I did. Past prime or not Mayorga was still a big name with a solid record who could bang and was seen as a threat. Go back a few years and dig up the threads if you don't believe me.

People were were also picking Quintana to school Cotto overwhelmingly. Mosley, too.

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Fighters who ducked no one:

Sugar Ray Robinson
Rocky Marciano
Joe Louis
Oscar Delahoya
Evander Holyfield
Mike Tyson

That's a just a handful off the top of my head. Honorable mention goes to:

Lennox Lewis and Muhammad Ali. They fought everyone, but their refusal to rematch fighters the public wanted them to rematch tarnishes some of their credibility in this area. Still great fighters, though, who have my full respect.

I mean, who can blame either of them for wanting no part of rematches that they both would have probably lost.

Ali stood no chance against Foreman in a fight here in the states, and Lewis was near retirement and no longer his once great self.

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There's still a ton of fighters out there that have to earn their stripes the hard way.

For every 1 coddled promoter protected fighter there is probably 100 fighters out there paying their dues.

Recent fighters:

Marcos Maidana
Lucas Matthysse
Chris Arreola
Paul Williams
Sergio Martinez
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
Nonito Donaire
Guillermo Rigondeaux
Erislandy Lara
Austin Trout
Miguel Cotto
Richard Abril
Glen Johnson
Carl fROCH

list goes on and on. the problem is we the fans constantly get the coddled fighters shoved in our face since they bring in the most money.