We show that if a cusped Borel Anosov representation from a lattice $$\Gamma \subset \textsf{PGL}_2({{\,\mathrm{\mathbb {R}}\,}})$$
Γ
⊂
PGL
2
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R
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to $$\textsf{PGL}_d({{\,\mathrm{\mathbb {R}}\,}})$$
PGL
d
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R
)
contains a unipotent element with a single Jordan block in its image, then it is necessarily a (cusped) Hitchin representation. We also show that the amalgamation of a Hitchin representation with a cusped Borel Anosov representation that is not Hitchin is never cusped Borel Anosov.