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[Cowboy Bebop][Spoilers]Question about Spike Spiegel's reputation

So according to the Teddy Bomber from "Cowboy Funk", everyone with a price of their head fears the name Spike Spiegel. That being said; Why is Spike able to hold such a reputation in the bounty hunting business despite people in his Syndicate thinking that he's dead?
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They knew he was alive, Vicious certainly knew. And they were even attacked by the Red Dragons a few times. 

IIRC In one of the episodes where Vicious attempts to take over the syndicate it's hinted that they were previously uninterested in hunting down people who were connected to Vicious until Vicious himself made a move against The Syndicate implying that up until that point Vicious (*as a high ranking member of The Red Dragon Syndicate*) had been tasked with or had taken it upon himself to track down Spike. Therefore the rest of The Syndicate was busy doing whatever a crime syndicate does.