Here in this thread I'd like as many examples of ducking as possible. There are no rules, there's no verifying or arguing about who had a good reason and who didn't. I don't want eye of the beholder debates, just X may have ducked Y and whatever evidence you want to bring.
The purpose is it's like every day I read a new duck story and just talking about them causes debates when a lot of the time what I'd really like to know is more about ducking in general in the era and less about the particular case.
We've done Dempsey-Wills to death and I've never once seen Godfrey's name in any of it. It's not that y'all dance around the subject so much as get caught up in one aspect of it, and, that aspect is more a personal choice than information gained. Pretty much all of us look a little deeper than what is posted then comes back with our own take. So your take is less important than pointing out the duck in the first place.
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The above will get an edit as the thread grows into whatever it'll be, meantime, here is the list of quackers so far:
Braddock ducked Schmeling -- this was jingoism and Zionism at work. Although at the time I would have approved.
Rid**** Bowe ducked Lennox Lewis
Lewis ducked rematch with Vitali
Floyd Mayweather ducked Amir Khan and rematch with Manny
Carl Frampton ducked Rigondeaux
Canelo ducked GGG in May 2016
Wilder ducked Wlad, Whyte and Joshua (multiple times)
Dempsey ducked Wills, Norfolk, Greb, Jeanette, Langford, Sharkey, Renault, and Godfrey.
Wills ducked Godfrey and Dempsey
Tunney ducked Wills and Godfrey and every black man who ever challenged him
Marciano ducked Valdes
Greb ducked Panama Joe Gans
Joshua ducked Ortiz
Fury ducked Wlad rematch
Graziano ducked LaMotta
Foreman ducked Shavers
Sullivan ducked Godfrey
RJJ ducked Dariusz Michalczewski
Jack Johnson ducked Jack Blackburn and every other black challenger not named Battling Jim Johnson.
The purpose is it's like every day I read a new duck story and just talking about them causes debates when a lot of the time what I'd really like to know is more about ducking in general in the era and less about the particular case.
We've done Dempsey-Wills to death and I've never once seen Godfrey's name in any of it. It's not that y'all dance around the subject so much as get caught up in one aspect of it, and, that aspect is more a personal choice than information gained. Pretty much all of us look a little deeper than what is posted then comes back with our own take. So your take is less important than pointing out the duck in the first place.
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The above will get an edit as the thread grows into whatever it'll be, meantime, here is the list of quackers so far:
Braddock ducked Schmeling -- this was jingoism and Zionism at work. Although at the time I would have approved.
Rid**** Bowe ducked Lennox Lewis
Lewis ducked rematch with Vitali
Floyd Mayweather ducked Amir Khan and rematch with Manny
Carl Frampton ducked Rigondeaux
Canelo ducked GGG in May 2016
Wilder ducked Wlad, Whyte and Joshua (multiple times)
Dempsey ducked Wills, Norfolk, Greb, Jeanette, Langford, Sharkey, Renault, and Godfrey.
Wills ducked Godfrey and Dempsey
Tunney ducked Wills and Godfrey and every black man who ever challenged him
Marciano ducked Valdes
Greb ducked Panama Joe Gans
Joshua ducked Ortiz
Fury ducked Wlad rematch
Graziano ducked LaMotta
Foreman ducked Shavers
Sullivan ducked Godfrey
RJJ ducked Dariusz Michalczewski
Jack Johnson ducked Jack Blackburn and every other black challenger not named Battling Jim Johnson.
Marchegiano
Well then this is really going to be disappointing because I know **** all. Personally, I reckon it's just an internet rumor
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