Fighters Who Never Ducked Anyone.

[Bx730NY]

Winky , Shane, Tito, Morales, Barrera, Marquez and Pac that I know for sure.

So far so good: Pavlik, Cotto, J. Taylor, Miranda, H. Soto, Malignaggi (cant believe I said that), Zab, C. Dawson, wow I'm gonna stop. takes too long

Didn't mention P Williams because he doesn't want Quintana trilogy and I still think Carlos has chance beat him.

Didn't mention any old time guys because I wasn't there and I don't believe all I hear. It's just like some of the ridiculous stuff I hear even today that when I see it I'm like, "What the hell are they talking about?". So I'm not gonna make believe I know what was going on in those times.

Like right now I know some of those good underdog guys that I know for a fact are being ducked. Media can't hide those from me. Back then , who knows?

[Fenster]

Naseem Hamed? The same Hamed that didn't fight Juan Manuel Marquez?

Hamed ducked no-one.

Markus, you blow my mind! After seeing your posts and how you get defensive on fighters you like is appaulling! Seriously...you believe Hamed never ducked Marquez?!?!

Boxingfanatics.com
This one is a long article but it says "He quickly climbed his way up the rankings with wins over Julian Wheeler, Darryl Pickney, and Agapito Sanchez, until he finally became the WBO Featherweight #1 contender. Soon, he became known as the fighter Naseem Hamed shamelessly ducked for 22 months. Tired of waiting for a crack at The Prince, Marquez moved on..."

ESPN - The champ most avoid meets king without a crown - Boxing
In this article Rafael says, "When Naseem Hamed was featherweight champ, he ducked Marquez for years, even when he became the mandatory challenger."

Hamed Under Fire | British Boxing Heroes
In this article:

Bruce Williams, writer, Boxing Update: “Juan Manuel Marquez was screwed out of his too-long-overdue mandatory with WBO feather champ Naseem Hamed, who didn’t even have the huevos to come to Puerto Rico and make his own appeal for more dispensations to seek world title unifiers.

Ivan Goldman, writer, KO Magazine: “Should Hamed ultimately forsake his WBO belt to go after another title, it won’t be because he suddenly decided the WBO belt was beneath his dignity. It will be because he’s run out of ways to duck Marquez.”

Teddy Atlas, ringside analyst, ESPN: “Juan Manuel Marquez is a very good fighter. You can tell how good he is by the way Naseem Hamed won’t fight him.”

Anymore rebuttals for this debate?

Hang on a minute. There's more to the story than that.

1. Marquez TURNED DOWN the Naz fight in 2000. Fact.

2. Marquez wasn't a BIG name back when he was the WBO mandatory. HBO weren't interested in him.

It's the WBO that treated Marquez unfairly.

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[SweetPea]

Zab is one guy who comes to mind. There are plenty of things you can criticize Zab for, but one thing you have to give him credit for is that he's willing to fight anyone/anywhere.

[Dark Lord Al]

Sweatpea Fought The Very Best

[irons]

Not 100% on these but they've not been mentioned yet, thought I'd throw them in.

Marvin Hagler.
Mike Tyson.

[Trainer Monkey]

Jerry Quarry, not in taking fights,and certainly not in the ring

[Hulk]

Not 100% on these but they've not been mentioned yet, thought I'd throw them in.

Marvin Hagler.
Mike Tyson.

Agreed with Hagler fo'sure.

But in my opinion Mike Tyson pretty much ducked all the good heavyweights of the 90's aside from Lewis and Holyfield, both of whom whipped his ass.

And I'm a Tyson fan.

[scribbs]

Lot of old fighters -

Harry Greb
Maxie Rosenbloom
Barbados Joe Walcott
Sam Langford
Joe Grim
Battling Nelson
Joe Gans
Archie Moore
Fritzie Zivic
Henry Armstrong

etc etc