Cherry Picks Gone Terribly Wrong.

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Was Mayweather-Marquez a cherry pick?

 

:deal

 

Wasn't Salido supposed to be an easy fight for juanma?

 

How can you call anyone fighting Pac a cherry pick? It doesn't make sense. I remember oscar saying this, you don't cherrypick against a wrecking machine.

 

jmm called floyd out and in that sense no.

but then others like margarito have also called him out but floyd turned him down....so when he accepted jmm's call out, it's a cherrypick in terms that he declined the margarito call out.

 

Margo called out floyd when he was still abit green imo, boxing is about $$ first, there were bigger paydays for floyd at that time and bigger fights.

 

the margo-cotto winner was perceived as the bigger threat back then.

so...yes, pac was a cherrypick since there was a bigger threat who oscar mentioned he'd fight next.

 

2 call outs, one was from margo and the other was jmm. floyd accepted the perceived easier of the 2.

 

arum was floyd's promoter at that time, 8mil would be floyd's highest purse at that time.

all floyd had to say was yes.

 

Fighting north of middleweight for the first time in his career. Not to mention it was two divisions up. No way that was a cherrypick. It was still against Hopkins who arguably won against another hall-of-fame fighter in Calzaghe.

EDIT: It wasn't the first time he moved up. But he did fight at a catchweight at 164 against Taylor, whom he had already fought once.

 

DLH vs Pacquiao was a pretty bad one. He didn't even win a single round against Pac.