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Who Are The "Boogey Men" Of Each Division?

Posted at: 2015-04-20 
Boogey Man as in the guy no one wants to fight.

For example, I think Thurman is the boogey man of 147 and Erislandy Lara at 154.

Minimum weight - Ali "The Body snatcher/No Blueprint" Raymi

Flyweight - Roman Gonzalez

Bantamweight - Anslemo Moreno

Super Bantam - Guillermo Rigondeaux

Featherweight - Simpiwien Vetyeka

Super Featherweight - Takashi Miura

Lightweight - Miguel Vazquez

Light Welterweight - Lucas Matthysse

Welterweight - Keih Thurman

Light Middle - Erislandy Lara

Middleweight - Gennady Golovkin

Super Middleweight - Adonis Stevenson

Light Heavyweight - Sergey Kovalev

Cruiserweight - Ilunga Makabu

Heavyweight - Dereck chisora (Ducked by Wilder and Wlad Klitschko)

Guillermo Rigondeaux at Junior featherweight.

Terrence Crawford at Leightweight.

Lucas Matthysse at Jr. welterweight.

Keith Thurman at Welterweight.

Erislandy Lara at Jr. Middleweight.

Gennady Golovkin at Middleweight.

Andre Ward at Super Middleweight.

Sergey Kovalev at Light heavyweight.

Deontay Wilder and Vitali Klitschko at Heavyweight.

These so called "boogeyman" claims are largely exaggerated. For instance, several people here labeled Lara as one such boogeyman, but he actually turned down an offer to face Molina in a rematch for the IBF title on the Canelo undercard. Obviously, Lara's team felt that Molina was a high risk/low reward opponent even with the title, because Molina has proven to have a style that can give him problems and a loss to him would jeopardize a future payday. He's now scheduled to face Ishe Smith coming off a loss to Molina. Fact is, most fighters weigh the financial risks/rewards before selecting an opponent.

Super Bantamweight - Carl Frampton

Lightweight - Terence Crawford

Light Welterweight - Ruslan Provodnikov

Welterweight - Marcos Maidana

Light Middleweight - Erislandy Lara

Middleweight - GGG

Super Middleweight - James Degale

Light Heavyweight - Sergei Kovalev

Heavyweight - None

Tony Blair at UK

George Bush at USA

Margaret Thatcher at UK

Boogey Man as in the guy no one wants to fight.

For example, I think Thurman is the boogey man of 147 and Erislandy Lara at 154.