After 2-3 rounds of eating Vitalis jabs and left hooks, Arreola won't even see those stiff rights coming. He won't know what hit him. He'll keep eating them until both of his eyes are swollen shut.
I thought the same thing. To be honest, I think Arreola isn't 6'4. Even when he was fighting McCline, he looked much smaller than him. Chris looks about 6'2.5 max.... maybe 6'4 with shoes.
Arreola will come out swinging and tire quite quite quickly from being in the ring with such a big man. This has a late round TKO written all over it. I'll be cheering for Arreola to take his head off though and break up this Ukrainian cartel holding the division to ransom.
I give it a 50-50 chance the Vitali pulls out with an injury before the fight...Ruiz was the first hispanic heavyweight champion - so being the first Mexican one seems less impressive to me...Hard to see how Arreola will be able to get close enough to land his power shots...Look for Klitschko TKO9....
I think CA will not come out a blazing. Not his style. Plus they know Vitali can KO his ass with a single punch. So I think he will try to box the first have and start coming on in the 6th. CA is a very good boxer. But everyone thinks of him as this brawler. CA looks 6-2 in the picks. But 6-4 is possible if he has flats on and Vitali has a heeled dress shoe. Which is more probable.
You're right about the weight gain / loss ( it certainly didnt do Hatton any favours ! ) but I've still got this itch that Arreola is gonna spring a shocker.:think
Holy ****, I didnt realize Vitali was that much bigger than Chris, even his fists are bigger. Arreola is so ****ed :-(
Vitlali is 6'7 1/2". Arreola looks about 6'2 to 6'3". Look at the stare down. Vitali is ready to fight. Arreola looks like he might be intimidated.
Arreola's toughness and heart will be tested right here since he cannot escape that thumping left hand in the middle of his face and he will not learn enough at this point so that he doesn't square up in front of Vitali and take a whole mighty left hook like he took from Jameel McCline for a couple of times... But as long as it lasts, Vitali is always on target to get hammered with those massive right hands so... We got a real HWT fight in our hands.