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Simply, when a guy won't fight because he is afraid he is going to get his ass beat.
Cotto and Pavlik with Mayweather and Calzaghe.
Calzaghe and his camp are running like spineless guttless turds. Lets fight another old man.
No in both cases, neither is a duck yet.

Floyd fought Oscar last year in May because he could make way more money than any other fight, and because Cotto wasn't ready (he hadn't even beaten a fighter of Judah's caliber yet).

Floyd was going to fight Oscar again because he was by far the biggest paycheck. Now, if Cotto beats Margarito and then beats Oscar (with Oscar going into retirement after that), then Cotto would at that point be by far the most worthy challenger AND the biggest paycheck. At that point, if Floyd were to come back in 2009 and fight anyone besides Cotto, then it would be 100% fair to accuse Floyd of ducking him.

Calzaghe isn't ducking Pavlik. People bash old Roy Jones, but Jones is still a much bigger name in America (and Europe) than Pavlik is. I bet Jones will bring a bigger paycheck and many more PPV buys than Pavlik can. And why should Joe rush to fight Pavlik?? Pavlik is young, he's not going anywhere. Joe can fight Jones and then still have Pavlik as an option after. Whereas Jones is near the end, if Joe puts off fighting him, he may never get the chance to fight him.