Mofo2 Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Quote UFC featherweight world champion Conor McGregor recently took at aim at former two division world champion Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - by claiming the Mexican superstar is a cherry picker, which means the boxer prefers to take easy fights. Canelo has taken a lot of heat in 2016. He took a lot of criticism back in May, when defended his WBC middleweight belt against welterweight contender Amir Khan at a catch-weight of 155-pounds. More critics came out when he vacated that same title as the WBC's purse bid loomed for a mandatory defense against Gennady Golovkin. Canelo is now returning to junior middleweight to face WBO world champion Liam Smith, who is unbeaten but unknown outside of the UK and untested against top competition. Fans are pushing for him to fight Golovkin. That contest won't happen until September 2017 at the earliest - as both sides have a verbal agreement to do so. “If you look at the history of the fight game, especially in this new era, it’s full of stars cherry-picking their opponents. When they hold a position of power, when they get a name, all of a sudden they pick weaker opponents. They look down their division. Nobody looks up a division. Nobody looks at true challenges," McGregor told Lance Pugmire of The Los Angeles Times. “Then, once in a blue moon, when that true challenge can’t be denied, like the [Floyd] Mayweather-[Manny] Pacquiao situation, it happens. But when you look at this Canelo [Alvarez] situation, it’s an era of cherry picking.” McGregor's comments got back to Canelo's ear, and the young star fired right back with some verbal jabs of his own. “I’ve been fighting the best since I was 23, since a very young age, that’s the last thing he could ever speak about me or say about me,” Canelo told Pugmire. "But I understand, there’s people out there that like to talk nonsense and stupidity.” http://www.boxingscene.com/canelo-conor-mcgregor-trade-words-over-cherry-picking-claim--108097?print_friendly=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRIM Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Canelo is worst than a cherry picker, because cherry pickers just chery pick easy fights in their weight division. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBF OG mexfighter Posted August 26, 2016 WBF OG Share Posted August 26, 2016 But he does have his weight division.....155 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRIM Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Heh! oh yeahh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mofo2 Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 We do realise McGregor is full of shit dont we gentlemen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRIM Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 2 minutes ago, Mofo2 said: We do realise McGregor is full of shit dont we gentlemen Yup! but it is still a fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrican23 Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 if the KING of CHERRY picking is the KING CHERRY in your eye , then how can you call the guy who FOUGHT, the guy you want to FIGHT, a CHERRY PICKER when he picked the CHERRY BEFORE you . then your a LEFTOVER CHERRY PICKER yourself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mofo2 Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 Why does that make sense to me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrican23 Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Great minds think alike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRIM Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 After reading B's reply 20 times it also makes sense to me also. But dam now we have a new category called LEFTOVER CHERRY PICKERS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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