Which fighter was the most avoided: Winky Wright, Paul Williams, GGG, or Guillermo Rigondeaux?

[King P]

Ring Gang back with another poll topic for you. Me and the homies (@patscorpio and @LauderdaleBoss) had a good discussion about this.

All these guys at one point where considered heavily avoided. Alot of ducking claims with these fighters. But which was the most avoided?





For me personally, it has to be the guy that was blackballed. Nuff said

 

[patscorpio]

as much as i want to say the punisher..the brain trust behind him wanted him to fight

rigo's promoter blackballed him on some bullshyt and we had a whole generation of fighters who tiptoed around him at 122

rigo is the choice

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

GGG
Sergio, Sturm, Cotto, and Canelo for 3 fights after the Cotto win, as well as others, did not want any parts of GGG until a welterweight started uppercut season on his ass.

Rigo was blackballed after he got his big marquee Donaire fight early in his career.

Punisher was avoided, but had a career hiccup with the Quintana fight. Then was just unlucky afterwards.

Winky was only really avoided by Oscar, Besides the 1st Mosley bout, he never really set the world on fire with his big fight performances. Always felt like he aint do enough or was just boring.

 

[I AM WE ARE]

I always thought winky was avoided because of his style

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Hard to call Winky avoided when by the end he had two fights with Mosley, Vargas, fought Taylor, Trinidad, and Hopkins.

 

[DillaTUDE]

It can't be GGG, he had a whole slew of fighters at 168 (Ward, DeGale, Froch, etc...) calling him out and he never faced one of them.

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Hard to call Winky avoided when by the end he had two fights with Mosley, Vargas, fought Taylor, Trinidad, and Hopkins.

Facts
He was avoided earlier in his career tho, but I felt like that made him a better fighter, cuz when he came back to the states with more seasoning, he was able to eventually get bigger fights an actually have a shot at winning them.

Winky was a good example of just staying consistent until the big fights came. Dude could have moved up earlier and missed out on the Mosley fights which is what truly raised his profile.

GGG did the same thing and his career is better for it, even tho he didn't get any official wins over Canelo. Those fights still raised his profile. He wasn't gonna get bigger fighting them 168 nikkas cuz none of them were bigger stars.

 

[NormanConnors]

Punisher

 

[Reggie]

Rigondeaux for me since Winky eventually got fights with and beat some of the best in the world.

 

[Big Boss]

Rigo

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Years later, I don't even feel a way about never getting Winky vs Oscar. Felt like we got that with the Sturm fight. shyt had the Winky ass decision too.

 

[Tom Foolery]

Paul Williams for me. He was forced out of his division.

 

[patscorpio]

Paul Williams for me. He was forced out of his division.

my nikka the punisher was the truth

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

It can't be GGG, he had a whole slew of fighters at 168 (Ward, DeGale, Froch, etc...) calling him out and he never faced one of them.

Facts. No way it can be golovkin with the way he blatantly ducked Andre ward. He also could have fought canelo much sooner but he refused to come down to 154. There's plenty of proof on this. Canelo said come down and the fight is done. But Abel repeatedly said they would only come down to 154 for Floyd and canelo wasn't worth it. He wasn't even willing to do a catchweight with canelo. Said it was "disrespectful" to the sport. But they agreed to a catchweight to fight gabe rosado at 158


Abel told canelo to grow some balls and move up. But when ward told golovkin to do the same it was "we're the A-side, we make the demands"......golovkin always had to have things his way or fights wouldn't get made. He refused to come down for canelo. refused to move up for ward. He was never willing to leave his comfort zone. So he's eliminated from contention just off that.








The only acceptable answers are rigo and pwill. The only top guy who was willing to face Paul was margarito. The rest of them dudes never even entertainmed the idea of fighting him. Too much risk not enough reward. And unlike golovkin, Paul was actually willing to move up in order to make the great fights happen

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

my nikka the punisher was the truth

Top 3 favourite of all time.