You won't catch me defending Haye's inactivity at all. I understand the Enzo Mac fight - local rivalries and all - but 1 fight since then is without doubt, ****. I don't know what's worse to be honest. A guy that always comes in good shape and to win, but never fights OR a guy that spends a career fighting not that great talent to be honest, earns a title shot, then comes in fat as pig severerly limiting his chances and making for a god awful fight.
this lump of lard is in for a serious whooping, its a disgrace his attitude, no way should we want this clinically obese joke looking like one of those mma knuckleheads with more tattoos then sense who crash beer cans on their heads, representing the blue ribbened division of the sweet science, even if he somehow pulls of a miracle he'll be another buster let himself go even more if it was possible and need lifesaving liposuction
I think it's a sell out already, or I think somebody on here said that 90% of the place has been sold already. So, I don't think selling tickets will be an issue.
I understand where your coming at and agree with your assessments. Personally, however, I find it asinine when people jump to conclusions " he was a having a beer," so he must fat and or not training. Being on the west coast living in cali, if Chris was as a whale as some people making out to be, I would of thought that the media in LA, which does a great job of covering sports and just about everything else would of made this salient to the public. I am not saying his going to come to the fight looking like one of those Spartans in the movie 300, but I think to be fair it's best to hold criticism until the 26th.
i think arreola knows this is his biggest fight of his carear.....he is a dumb ass if he is slacking off.....which I don't believe the rumors.....hell, even hbo ran a promo after the 24/7 with arreola saying he is going to prove the critics wrong and will be in-shape to be the first mexican-american heavyweight champ....he is a ****** if he comes in fat after hbo is hyping promos of him saying he will be in shape...
Well, to be honest, if Arreola is very out of shape I think he just about ran out of time cuz he doesn't have enough time left to gain major cardiovascular conditioning at this stage of the training camp. If he is somewhat out of shape he is running out of time and better really go for broke training in the little time he has left. The conditioning VK is displaying for this fight is just about as solid as I have ever seen him and VK is a guy who is never that out of shape, even when he's not training since he is a life-long athlete who always takes good care of himself.
With regards to Arreola fighting "not that great" talent, I'm not saying the guy has a solid resume, which he doesn't, but, in all fairness, I'm not even totally convinced that Haye could get past guys like Travis Walker and Witherspoon. Walker and Witherspoon would also have prolly koed the shot to total **** Barret that Haye claims as his "best" name on his HW resume.
Fact is, he was out of shape not that long ago before the fight. If he takes that weight off too fast, he will be weakened. Let's be realistic:If he was that out of shape not tha long ago, he can't be in top shape for the fight. I agree that he can come in reasonable shape but not in top shape. Vitali on the other hand always comes in top shape and he is the more experienced fighter and better boxer. Vitali by KO.