Did Leonard cherrypick Hagler?

[Mr.Fantastic]

Leonard was out for 3 years. Well it wasn't as honorable as picking juan manuel marquez and making him jump three divisions but what are you going to do.

Lol nice one.

[Bushidō]

Did he wait until he got older and saw some slippage in him? why did he not take the fight earlier? he even held a press conference where Hagler thought he would announce the fight only to announce his retirement? so was it a cherrypick?

100% yes. Although Leonard wasn't at his best anymore he saw that Hagler wasn't as well

[richardt]

An inactive, smaller fighter who had been dropped in his last fight goes against the undisputed middleweight champion of the world is hardly a cherry pick. Leonard saw himself in the ring with Hagler during one of Hagler's fights and thought he could win and he did just that.

[Cracaphat]

Marvellous Marvin's mistake was to wanna box with Leonard instead of going at him.Maybe father time had caught up and he couldn't.But when he came out for the first round not in his usual stance, showed a lack of confidence NOT surprise.