Can you name a Cherry Picker?

[Bomp]

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.

I agree, and I did mention it in my original post that Floyd above 140 is a cherry picker (by what I perceive the term to mean). I would say that Diaz for Pac was certainly a cherry pick. Depends how derogatory a term you make it to be, if a guy just does it the once for perhaps one gimme or to test the waters at a higher weight, or if a guy bases a career out of it.

The intention of my original post was to get some clarification of what people mean when they use the term. For me I see a difference between what guys like Erdei are doing (staying at home fighting nobodies), and what guys at the top of the sport are doing (i.e. guys in dominant negotiating positions). I'm NOT claiming that what the likes of Erdei/Ottke are/were doing are better, of course not, just discussing semantics, perhaps someone can sugget a different term for what Erdei is doing.

I picked on Hatton because I admit I don't like him. I've gone from being a big fan (pre Kostya up to about Collazo), to finding him irritating and repetitive, to now finding him a douche who lies and misleads his fans with his pa Ray 'del boy' Hatton (the going to Vegas because it's cheaper for the fans bollocks).

'Money is every fighters no.1 motivation, no?' - perhaps it is, along with satisfying some part of the ego by striving to be the best. Obviously being able to claim that he is p4p no.1 is a big motivation for Ricky, but while he's PICKING an opponent suitable for him specifically (i.e. a man who he has a significant phyical advantage over) to achieve a round about claim on that title, then yes I would call that a cherry pick. He's repeatedly claimed 'what kind of a fighter would I be if I wouldn't take on the biggest challenges' when referring to Pac, yet while Pac may have p4p no.1 next to his name I don't think many on here would claim that Pac is a bigger challenge for Ricky than say Cotto/Mosley, guys who are much closer to him in size.