More evidence of why I loathe the term ducking. Here we have Wilder saying he wants to fight and somehow it's deemed Wilder is ducking. People see what they want to see and use the blanket word ducking to cover everything. There is no evidence Wilder doesn't want the fight.

On the other hand Don King has already been telling anyone who will listen that they don't have to fight Wilder. That they have an optional fight before the mandatory.

Fans get so little information and draw conclusions. We are supposed to be information driven but all the information refutes that. We are speculation driven. Watch an alien encounter series, everything can be explained by aliens. Watch a religion series, everything can be explained by religion. We don't know a hell of a lot more than we do know and we fill the gaps with whatever we choose to believe.

Don King will do whatever he feels makes him the most money. Maybe it's protecting the belt with many small profit fights, which he has a long history of doing. Or maybe he'll go for the cash grab against Wlad. Haymon will go for the belt if he thinks that makes the most money long term. The fighters will follow their instructions and fans will place blame on whoever is against their fighter.