Can you name a Cherry Picker?

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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.

I see what you are trying to say but...

I think he earned his shot at Floyd quite fairly. He was the undisputed number 1 at 140. Ok it might not matter at 147 but then you remember how Mayweather won the title at 147. The fight was at welter to convenience Mayweather and imo this fight should have happened maybe 18 months before - at 140.

It would have been career suicide for him to fight one of the bigger guys at welter, because Hatton is no where near big enough.

And if Castillo was really a lightweight, why couldn't he make weight anymore?

I'd say if he wanted to Cherry pick he could fight all the weak champions, back in England. He sold out Coms fighting Lazcano so he could still make mulit-millions fighting bums in the UK.

I can accept that maybe something like that motivated Hatton. But if it's career suicide to fight a guy like Cotto, then how is it that he thinks he has a chance against Floyd, who was the top dog in the division? And how is it that he has earned a shot against Floyd when he can't compete against the top guys? It don't make a lot of sense.

But hey, after all it's all about the dough that Ricky can bring to the table, right?

What did Mayweather do to deserve 'top dog' status? Beat Baldomir? Jesus.

Cotto would have been due to his sheer size and strength advantage....same with Margarito - not to mention his concrete gloves.

Hatton didn't want Mayweather because he was top dog at 147. He wanted him because he wanted Mayweather...regardless of the weight.