Only true boxing fans knew Bivol was a threat. When your a 5 to 1 favorite, then you can easily call it a cherry pick.That's true but these are all way higher level fight options than roach and barely cherry picks.
If you want to know the "cherry pickability" of a fight just follow the odds. If he would have fought Benavidez or Artur Beterviev the odds would have been much closer or even in favor of Artur.
Note, this was the same time the man was saying he would be open to fight Usyk.