I wouldn't call it cherry-picking at all. It's a more respectable fight than giving Margarito a chance. In fact challenging Marg is considered picking on someone who is a lot slower and less skilled, not to mention it will be at a catch weight which is one of the surest signs of cherry picking. Now if Pac wanted to fight Marg back when he had came off his win against Cotto, that would've been incredibly ballsy and I'd give Pac a ton of credit for it. Notice back then Freddie Roach admitted he would rather have Pac fight a Klitschko than Margarito. But now he's predicting Manny will KO Margarito in quick fashion. Roach is a joke. It's obvious he steers his fighters away from guys who are or have been on a hot streak such as Margarito (pre wrapgate), Mosley, Williams, and Martinez. I'll give Roach credit for at least verbalizing his desire to challenge Mayweather but Team Pac didn't seem like they wanted to fight back in March which was when Floyd wanted it. This could be classified as ducking depending on who you ask.
Even more so when you don't ****ing honor the catchweight when your opponent is already much smaller than you! :deal
Pac wanted to fight Marg back in 2008. It was Roach who said "no". http://www.***********.com/?m=show&id=17776#