Chris Arreola vs Vitali Klitschko

I'd have been proud of that one myself

Hopefully Arreola has enough time to grow dreadlocks and perfect his dead arm technique.

 

Arreola is at the point where the new young gun should take out the older champion. But given that he is disgustingly overweight, it's going to be a big task. How ****ing hard is it to come in shape when you're a professional boxer anyway?? Most people working desk jobs are in better condition, for Christ's sake.

I will say that he seemed to perform quite well against McCline, despite the spare tire. However, that was only 4 rounds against an 38 year old, washed up former contender who came out of retired for a payday.

Gomez landed quite a few shots on Klitschko early and in general i thought Vitali did not look that good defensively. Age is catching up with him, plus all the injuries. I see this as a 50/50 fight if Arreola comes in "decent" bad shape, but mainly due to his age.


If Vitali loses, it does setup a nice unification fight between Wlad and Arreola.

 

I have a couple guesses...

1) When exposed to physical and emotional stress (pain, fear, etc.), people tend to eat more. Boxing is a very stressful undertaking. More so than a lot of other sports.

2) When exposed to physical and emotional stress, the body stores more fat.

3) Professional athletes burn a lot of calories. When they stop training, they still retain their eating habits. Boxing, unlike many other sports, has long layoff times without coach-imposed conditioning.

 

Oh man, Suzie found another train to hop on after the Pavlik one derailed I see.

 

Arreola is a joke, a poor man's Sam Peter if that is possible ... if he were not Mexican he would not be on anyone's radar screen ... Arum smells money and knows a Mexican heavy can draw if he can hit a biyt and has the right tats ... Arreola has shown absolutely zero and if Vitali has anything left he stops him in a few rounds tops ..

 

Arreola has horrible defense himself. Vitali is a pretty good counterpuncher for a tall guy. Arreola is also a slob. Should be pretty easy night for Vitali to bide his time from the outside before lowering the boom.

 

I will cheer for Areola, due to the fact that boxing is in dire need of young blood......And also because I'm American.....


But in all seriousness, I don't know if Chris Areola is the answer to the problems of heavyweight boxing, and I'm not sold on the idea that he can dethrone Vitali. Klitschko may indeed be 38 years of age.. He may indeed be going into only the 3rd fight that he's had in nearly 5 years. But, his last two performances have shown that he certainly has something left in the tank, and in truth have shown more than Chris Areola has proven in his whole career...

I can sit here and try to make all sorts of predictions and draw up detailed analyses of both men.. But I'm not going to.. Like everything else, we'll just have to wait and see...

 

When did Vitali all of a sudden become an old fighter who is showing his age? He doesn't look or fight much different than he did 5 years ago. He's still durable, somewhat ungraceful, but very effective.

 

I would've loved Arreola to win but his overweight picture has me thinking twice, :verysad.

 

Or how about:

4) He simply doesn't have the discipline to watch his diet?


Being a boxer is a full time responsibility to look after your body. The Klitschkos are in top shape 24/7 and many others are. You make it sound like something that you can't realistically expect from a top boxer.


I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a man to simply be in shape, when he is payed hundred thousands of dollars to do so.

Yeah, but the difference is that McCline officially retired after Ruiz and stopped taking care of his body as he should've. He was still around 270lbs, but lost his muscle definition and instead invested it in a big beer belly. Have a gander:

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McCline weighing in for Peter

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McCline weighing in for Arreola....


There's a big difference. The fact that he quit pretty early in the fight shows exactly this mindset. McCline once was a world class contender, but not championship level.

My guess is they're putting him in with Vitali so early because they want to cash out on their prize cow before he eats himself out of competition. And i'm not joking. When he got knocked down by Travis Walker but came back to win, he was saying that this experience woke him up, and that he would never come in at that weight again. Well he was right, but in the wrong way; against McCline he was even heavier. :-(

The Witherspoon win was a good one, and at 239lbs he was at least in decent shape.

My current favorite American heavyweight is Eddie Chambers. He doesn't have a crowd pleasing style, but he's very skilled, and unlike Arreola he doesn't take the easy route to the title and is dedicated to boxing, not to Tacos.

 

You're comparing Arreola to David Tua based on what ? He looked like a total amayeur v.s. Walker for the first round and a half, getting hit with almost every punch and getting dropped on his ass. Yes he showed some heart by stopping Walker but Chris' skill set and chin and conditioning look pathetic.

You are ysing the McCline fight as some sort of serious barometer of accomplishment and it was a joke. Gerald was clearly there for a check, gave a half hearted effort for a check and packed it in ...

So since you are so high on Chris you will then definatly give Vitali huge credit if he defeats him, correct ?