100% agree, whenever you try way too hard to duck opponents, it ALWAYS comes back to bite you. Tim Tszyu literally cherry-picked Thurman who was inactive for his fight in Las Vegas after Turki already wanted to make a fight with him and Bud. Him ducking, was followed by Keith pulling out for injury, a replacement with a completely different type of opponent in Fundora, a head cut, a loss, and another loss to Murdazaliev
All he could have done was just fight Bud and call it a day. No one, and I mean no one would bat an eye to you losing to Bud, they just want to see you put up a good fight. After that loss, we would have bounced back and still been contending for titles. Same thing with Tank. Spent all those years taking the easy route with Barrios and Rolly, ended up in a cherry pick gone wrong situation with Lamont Roach, and now he's in shambles