Define a "Duck"

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To me, it's only a "duck" when a fighter avoids fighting an opponent who is both the most worthy challenger AND the biggest potential paycheck.

I don't like it when people accuse a fighter of "ducking" someone in order to make more money against someone else. After all, they call it "prize"fighting for a reason. These guys fight to get paid. Considering that any boxer's career can end at any time from any one punch, I will never fault a guy for chasing the biggest paycheck.

Like I said, a duck only occurs when the person being ducked represents the biggest challenge and the biggest paycheck to the fighter who is doing the ducking.

In this case, I'm not sure which instances there really are of "ducking". It's pretty much always risk/reward.

Mayweather-Margarito can be debated, but Baldomir paid the same amount and was a bolt from Arum (which meant huge dollars with Golden Boy Promotions since they weren't working with Top Rank at the time). It also meant more significance on paper (Ring/linear/WBC titles > WBO title), although I'm hard pressed to find anyone who would claim that Margarito was not the tougher challenge of the 2.

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When a worthy opponent challenges another one, and won't comply at all.