Can you name a Cherry Picker?

[Fenster]

You make fair arguments, Hatton is by no means the worst cherry picker, I was using him to illustrate what I thought the term 'cherry picker' meant in contrast to the ambitionless stay at home guys. The term cherry picking is picking the very best juicy high reward fights (which the likes of Erdei/Ottke never reach) while taking the path of least resistence to do it.

It's how he earned the Floyd fight which makes me believe that Ricky can be accused of cherry picking to some degree. He challenged for the Welter crown after defeating a Lightweight at Light Welter, rather than consolidating his win against another welter - I would say that qualifies as taking the path of least resistence, lesser than at least half a dozen options that were at welter at the time.

But if he fought a few more welters before Floyd he would have a) risked ever getting a shot at the top man and b) risked missing out on a £20m payday

Surely you have to capitilise on your chances when they come?

In your own words he took the road of least risk. Im not saying he didn't do a wise thing, and probably the majority of fighters would do the same in his position depending if money or securing genuine legacy is your main motivation. For example I wouldn't call Cotto's list of opponents at Welter cherry picking.

Hatton repeatedly claims that his main goal is to become the best p4p fighter in the world, yet he wants to do it against the fighters over whom he has a natural physical advantage over, rather than facin others on the list just one division north.

Hmm.. don't know about this Bomp.

Money is every fighters no.1 motivation, no?. And that comes with making the biggest fights avialable to you.

Going by what you're saying Pac is a cherry picker too. He dodged everyone at 135, 140 and 147 to get to Oscar.

Maywether must be a cherry picker as well. He dodged Tsyzu, Hatton and Cotto at 140 to fight Baldomir and Judah at 147.

Hatton doesn't understand how P4P works. He was the underdog against Tszyu (P4P3), Floyd (P4P1) and now Pac (P4P1)... so he can probably be forgiven for thinking he deserves the top spot.