What would your game plan be for Arreola?

Jab & Work the body.
Test Vitali's leg's & stamina (Understatement, considering we are talking bout Chris)

Don't over shoot the right & throw in a butt here in there...ruff him up.
constant pressure behind a steady jab & a magnet in your glove might help guide your punches towards the cyborg.

 

Pump the jab and work your way your way in by moving the head and pumping the jab. When you get inside bully the **** out of him throw combos to the head and body and push him to the ropes and throw combos. Do not give him any space to extend his jab and right hand.

 

He should be sure his VO2max is in the range of low to mid 40's. If it isn't he needs to get on a rowing machine.

 

For the first 3 or 4 rounds yeah that has to be the tactic....after that drag VITLAY into deep water. I wouldn't even worry about winning rounds in the first 3-4 rounds if I were Arreola, just keep a high guard and get in close as often as possible and hustle the **** out of the guy without taking too much damage. Get the old man into the later rounds and who knows what will happen, no fighter ever beats father time.

Easier said than done though, for the likes of Arreola - but I do think he has a better chance than Peter or Gomez had.

 

The thing is that Vitali has never been one to gas out exponentially in his career. On top of that, Arreola has never gone deep into a fight and never had to really deal with a taller more sturdy target leaning on him or rough housing him. The closest he has Jameel "Small Time" McCline who was working at a rehab center before the fight.

 

Step 1, get in shape...

 

Get Arreola to throw lots of combos in awkward angles like usual and do a lot of bodywork to go with the head work. If he does this and survives the early rounds he may be able to test Vitali's stamina with a hard fight. I don't think Arreola will be in shape to do this come fight night though.

 

Disagree.

Arreola does not have a fast jab and he brings his hand back low. More accuracy wouldn't hurt either. If you've watched a lot of Klitschko fights, the thing he does very very well in there is to throw a right hand over the other guy's jab. Commentators seldom mention it and they tend to comment on the follow up shots. But the way he counters jabs catches guys clean and the next thing you know, they get alligator arms and don't even try extending their jabs and then become increasingly vulnerable. Perhaps if Arreola had the balance and conditioning to jab while moving his feet it may help but Vitali did break down Donald who is nothing but a jabber and mover.

I tend to think throwing lots of jabs against this guy is going to result in him eating right hands. And like other Vitali opponents, he can absorb for a while, but not 12 rounds worth of them. Maybe it'd be best not to throw them but just feint and throw his oddball sneaky right in there. No matter what, it's going to take left hooks and right hands to pull this one out for Chris and his defense and accuracy have to be career best efforts.

 

Arreola has to throw caution to the wind and go wild with everything he's got before his corner throws in the white towel (with pre-fight burrito stains).

 

Sorry, but CA will start cautiously and Vitali will poke that jab all night. CA will pay coming in and will respect the strength early of a hard Vitali shot. Vitali KO's Arreola with a jab, one after another. CA never even gets into this fight, an embarressment (aka Sam Peter).

 

hes got to go in there all guns blazing and hope to land a lucky shot, thats his only chance

if he tries to box like everyone else, it'll be the same boring ass tko

 

CA needs to charge early. He'll gas by round 4 and lose it all unless he lands a few healthy combos. Conditioning will hurt CA, not his strong point. Just because he went 8 once against a nobody doesn't mean he can reach half of that against Vitali. Arreola gets reckless early or gets slaughtered. CA isn't going to give a boxing lesson to Vitali. Get real.

 

Jab his face until it looked like ground beef then once this fat **** was gassed and hurting I would carefully and methodically destroy him.

 

He's got to pressure him. He can't let Vitali outwork him, or he is doomed. Sam made that mistake. Once Vitali establishes the jab, and u let him, it is all downhill from there. The best bet for Arreola is to counter Vitali's jab with right hands and hooks. If he comes in in some sort of shape, I think he can accomplish this. I would also bob and weave to avoid VK's montrous jab and follow it up with angles like Manny Pacquiao does. Basically get in there and make your punches count. He can't be lackadasical like Gomes was. Gomez had absolutely no plan against Vitali. He basically bum-rushed him and expected to land a big left hand. Arreolas should definitely work on his footwork to position himself against the very awkward VK. If he does that, he will have success.