Did Floyd duck these fighters ?? casual question to the hardcores

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Prime Manny- Politics and fukkery ruined that, but you can still call it a duck for either guy depending on who you stan. remember they had a lawsuit too.

Margarito - lowkey duck, but then promoter fukkery kinda ruined that too.

Prime Cotto - Cotto himself said he wasn't ready. So no duck

Shane - No duck. They honestly fought at the best time for their careers which is when they both got older.

Clottey -No duck. Other side of the street shyt,but Clottey never made himself a name to the point where people wanted to see a Floyd fight

Paul Williams - No duck. Timing was off and the window was only open for a small moment because Quintana upset Paul. Paul got revenge and then moved up. You can't duck somebody who not at your weight.

Amir Khan - No duck, Khan wasn't moving right and tried to finesse big fights with pac n floyd and it would backfire. He'd get upset or look bad in fights whenever a floyd fight seemed possible in the near future. Thats why he eventually settled for the Canelo pay day even though he stood a higher chance of losing badly.

Thurman- not a duck. They could have fought, but its more like a timing thing on this one.

everything I said above is being on some regular objective non stan shyt. Some will agree. Some won't, but it's just how I personally saw shyt play out during the time. Floyd doesn't really have a lot of ducks imo. Meaning as far as fights that realistically could have happened that people wanted to see.

Pretty much

To add to Sugar Shane & I don't know if this has been said, but Shane gave leeway for Fishnets to fight Floyd. Shane was a partner at Golden Boy & I believe they were setting a stage for Oscar & Floyd to fight back then. Shane actually left Golden Boy in order to make the Floyd fight if I'm not mistaken
 

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It's true, Khan and his family were feeling themselves too much and especially with making money, they infract lost money due to Khan fukking up a few times..
Amir should have won that fight against lamont but he couldn't convince the judges and got points deducted.
That was a setback IMO..
Floyd even told team khan to get that Win and this Win then set up the big PPV!!!Then Danny Garcia happened!

Remember he acted like a total bytch when Floyd turned him down :heh:
 

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How long its gonna take for yall to give floyd his damn flowers, nikkas really gonna wait till he's in the grave.

Floyd don't owe ya shyt, let this man's legacy be great

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Notice that you can find concrete evidence of floyd calling out fighters in his prime and most of them avoided him like the plague til they saw him gaining traction in the boxing world. Kostya got called out by floyd and never even acknowledged him thats a duck considering floyd was a top p4p fighter. Shane said he had a tooth ache and was taking some time off:mjlol: and plenty of others. But we suppose to believe margacheato had floyd shook. :stopitslime: margarito wouldnt touch floyd with 6 arms. Anybody arguing floyd being a duck is just a disgruntled manny pacquiao fan. If floyd and manny fought in 2009/2011 manny would've quit on his stool.
 
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Every fighter "ducks" at some point.

A lot of the "ducks" are more down to timing and potential fights falling through one reason or the other. So are they really ducks? or a case of circumstance? Why should a fighter stagnate their career waiting for someone else to get their business in order i.e mandatories etc .
i dont think most ppl even know what ducking is.
when floyd called out fighters and they rejected him it was okay.

but if a fighter called out floyd, he had to fight them immediately or he was scared lol

when oscar was the A side he was doing all kinds of shyt to get an advantage and no one said a word.

he made floyd take 2 additional blood tests in the lead up to their fight. and CHOSE floyd's gloves on fight night which is fukkin unheard of.

when floyd wants to dictate things as the A-side, its an issue all of a sudden
 

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i dont think most ppl even know what ducking is.
when floyd called out fighters and they rejected him it was okay.

but if a fighter called out floyd, he had to fight them immediately or he was scared lol

when oscar was the A side he was doing all kinds of shyt to get an advantage and no one said a word.

he made floyd take 2 additional blood tests in the lead up to their fight. and CHOSE floyd's gloves on fight night which is fukkin unheard of.

when floyd wants to dictate things as the A-side, its an issue all of a sudden
And they fought in bigger gloves oppose to the normal weight class and oscar had the ring shrunk as well.. But they blame floyd for toying with him while oscar had the ultimate batman contingency plan in place to have the advantage and still lost:mjlol:
 

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And they fought in bigger gloves oppose to the normal weight class and oscar had the ring shrunk as well.. But they blame floyd for toying with him while oscar had the ultimate batman contingency plan in place to have the advantage and still lost:mjlol:
had floyd wearing heavy weight gloves:mjlol:
 

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I wasn't following boxing hardcore in the 2000s (followed historic fighters or KO artist)


I see repeated on other forums Floyd is accused of ducking the same fighters:

- "Prime" Manny

- Margarito

- "Prime" Cotto

- "Prime" Shane Mosley

- Josh Clottey

- Paul Williams


Did Floyd actually "duck" these fighters or is this just an attempt of Floyd haters to slander his career

again I wasn't following boxing during this time so I like to hear what yall have to say about per fight


Edit:: I'm adding few others ppl love to claim Floyd ducked

- Amir Khan

- Keith Thurman



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Floyd ducked only 3 fighters. Williams, Khan and Winky.

Williams was blackballed out of welterweight and forced to move up.
Khan's style was iffy for Floyd so he didn't take the risk.
Called out Winky Wright but his bluff got called.

Fans wanted to see Floyd fight Margarito...Floyd had no interest even tho it would've been a big pay day
This is not how it went down. Floyd wanted the Dela Hoya but Arum wouldn't make the fight. So Floyd bought himself out the contract, made the fight with Oscar and the rest is history.
 

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Floyd ducked only 3 fighters. Williams, Khan and Winky.

Williams was blackballed out of welterweight and forced to move up.
Khan's style was iffy for Floyd so he didn't take the risk.
Called out Winky Wright but his bluff got called.


This is not how it went down. Floyd wanted the Dela Hoya but Arum wouldn't make the fight. So Floyd bought himself out the contract, made the fight with Oscar and the rest is history.

There was def strong demand for Margarito vs Floyd after Margarito KO'd Cintron & Cotto

Floyd wanted to fight Oscar for the pay day & exposure...fans wanted to see him fight Margarito
 

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There was def strong demand for Margarito vs Floyd after Margarito KO'd Cintron & Cotto

Floyd wanted to fight Oscar for the pay day & exposure...fans wanted to see him fight Margarito
That's not a duck though. There's a valid reason why they never fought.

And it's not like ODH was the lesser fighter.
 

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Oscar was way past his prime at that point & Margarito beat an undefeated & heralded Cotto
u have your timelines all messed up
margarito cheated and beat cotto when floyd was retired. by the time floyd came back, cheato was exposed for cheating and had been knocked out by mosley. not to mention he was suspended for a year for cheating.
 

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u have your timelines all messed up
margarito cheated and beat cotto when floyd was retired. by the time floyd came back, cheato was exposed for cheating and had been knocked out by mosley. not to mention he was suspended for a year for cheating.

did the fans not want to see mayweather fight margarito, yay or nay?
 
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