Can you name a Cherry Picker?

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Hatton - Collazo: yeah I'd call that a path of low resistance in the Welterweight division. And if Mayweather is such a huge cherry picker at welterweight, then fighting Mayweather doesn't exactly make you a superstar of courage now does it?

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Hatton - Collazo: yeah I'd call that a path of low resistance in the Welterweight division. And if Mayweather is such a huge cherry picker at welterweight, then fighting Mayweather doesn't exactly make you a superstar of courage now does it?

Why would he want a path of low resistance in the welterweight division when he doesn't have long term ambition of fighting there? He had nobody to fight so rather than cancel the date he chose to fight a very good fighter in his back yard at his weight. Not textbook cherry-picking is it? I didn't call Mayweather a cherry picker so i don't know about all this superstar of courage talk - altho i would claim that any fighter shows a great deal nof courage just climbing through the ropes.

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Hatton - Collazo: yeah I'd call that a path of low resistance in the Welterweight division. And if Mayweather is such a huge cherry picker at welterweight, then fighting Mayweather doesn't exactly make you a superstar of courage now does it?

Why would he want a path of low resistance in the welterweight division when he doesn't have long term ambition of fighting there? He had nobody to fight so rather than cancel the date he chose to fight a very good fighter in his back yard at his weight. Not textbook cherry-picking is it? I didn't call Mayweather a cherry picker so i don't know about all this superstar of courage talk - altho i would claim that any fighter shows a great deal nof courage just climbing through the ropes.

Ok fine, forget the Mayweather stuff, it wasn't so much directed at you. You do have a point about Collazo. But if Hatton has no intention of sticking around at welterweight (because why? not his best division? he's not that competitive there?) then I would question why he thinks he has any business stepping in to the ring against Mayweather. I don't have knowledge of what Hatton was thinking of, but he beats Mayweather, the best welterweight out there, I really can't see him moving back down to JWW, can you?


edit: May take is that Hatton needed a belt to make his fight against Mayweather a bigger fight. No mayweather, Hatton nevr moves up to welterweigt in the first place. Who else was champ at welterweight? Cotto and Margarito? You tell me if Collazo was a path of high resistance to get to Mayweather. Collazo was far from the toughest ranked welterweight at the time.

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I think Cherry Picking also might involve the period of time between fights. Even if you fight top notch guys, if you do it every 18 months or so, that's a form of cherry picking because you are calling the shots as to how rested and ready you are for those fights. De La Hoya did that until his lack of skills ran out and it really didn't matter anymore.