Just promoting him to make him look good fighting the winner of Wladimir/Haye in the future, just normal/typical.
I love Larry Merchant, I think he's awesome. That said have a MODICUM of pride here Larry. A little bit of pride.
Normally HBO does a good job hiding it. They don't bring in the "here for a paycheck folks!" opponent and ask him to basically lick the dude's nads right after he lost to him. They're just REALLY blatant with this one.
i would like to see arreola fight after a solid preparation to gauge where he is at. he looked better than i expected after seeing the weigh in pics. he has lots of power and decent skills for a heavy. i think if he works off 20lb and works on slipping the jab for 6 months he may give wlad a fight worth watching. the guy who fought today would not get past wlad's jab.
This is a fight that would have been interesting Peter-pre-Maskaev. Peter doesn't throw any bombs these days.