Apparently he has REALLY decided, for the 5th time, that he is going to take boxing training seriously. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/chris_mannix/01/26/chris.arreola/index.html
LOL i see christopher wants to set yet another record with his dedication will it be 280 or 290lbs this time around? I think chris is gonna set the record straight on this one and go for 290, but solis is his biggest threat at the moment, for the fight of his life against vitali i think he's gonna suprise us all including chris, and come in at 300 on the dot. i dont know how chris is gonna deal with that.
Arreola would knock Haye out! Arreola is losing weight and should look really good. He is a top heavyweight, no doubt about it. Haye is afraid of him. Haye will not fight his mandatory as i predicted a very long time ago. Haye will not fight the top WBA contenders. WBA sucks! Haye/WBA Paper Champion WBA rankings 1. Ruslan Chagaev 2. Dennis Boytsov 3. Alexander Povetkin 4. Alexander Ustinov 5. Hasim Rahman 6. Nicolay Valuev 7. Alexander Dimitrenko 8. Jean Marc Mormeck 9. Kali Meehan 10. Tomasz Adamek 11. Robert Helenius 12. Timur Ibragimov 13. Dennis Bakhtov 14. Juan Carlos Gomez 15. Chris Arreola
Rededicated?? When was the first he was actually dedicated? I understand that some guys are hard to control when it comes to eating (Guzman, Arreola...) but I still find it hard to accept especially when they make that much money while lighter fighters are in the gym or getting up at 5am to run in order to get an opportunity to make money. Getting up at 8am?? WTF??! Even on weekends I'm up earlier to do some treadmill. And I'm not a professional athlete so get the **** out of here!! He did not a new trainer IMO, just motivation to train hard like a pro should.
The sentiments are good, but as Arreola himself seems to realise, there's going to be a lot of skeptics, me included. See how it goes.
hes a product of the modern day heavyweight scene, there isnt many of them that watch what they eat or train for 12 round fights. He'll go hard for a while then hit the tequila and burrito':freddys
After his last fight i came to accept that he will never live up to his potential or get in good shape..... Now im ??? kind of believing him(??) .. Wel will see, he better be down to about 240 in his next fight. But ive always felt he needed a more experienced trainer... Ramirez seems like a capable trainer but hes also his beer drinking buddy and not experienced on the world class level. Im hoping and believing hell make Arreola better.
Lots of things have to come together to make a top sportsman, in any sport, and one of them is the right mindset. Whatever his other strengths, Arreola doesn't have that. So even if he really believes that this time will be different, I just don't think he has it in him. I fear history will judge him - if it remembers him at all - as a 'what might have been'. It's a shame, because if he wanted it enough to compromise his lifestyle for a few years, I think he could have been a fighter worth remembering.
Even if he gets himself in decent shape he still has a lot to prove. Despite all the attention he gets, he has still yet to actually get a decent win on his record against a good opponent.
Indeed - I think that the attention might be in part down to a shallow division and him being well-promoted. Does anyone seriously think that he would have been considered a top contender had he been around with some prime 1990s fighters, say?
