Chris Arreola vs Prime Tommy Morrison

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  1. hookfromhell

    hookfromhell Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Arreolas getting overrated, he ate Mitchell and Klitchkos shots, but
    I don't think he can eat Tommys hook and stay standing. Chris can
    And probably would drop Morrison, but Tommy has come off the canvass to
    Win against better opposition than a fat McCline in the Arreola fight.
    Tommy could be elusive with the head movement and had the poormans
    tyson hook to the body then uppercit combo. Im a huge Arreola fan,
    but his defense is too leaky to win. Let me change my prediction though, you cannot deny
    that Arreola has heart, so maybe he survives to lose a UD.
     
  2. The Mongoose

    The Mongoose I honor my bets banned

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    Morrison beats Arreola up a bit than somehow screws up, gets clipped with a shot, staggers around, and gets knocked out. Cristobel is tough enough to take what Morrison can dish out and is a decent enough finisher.
     
  3. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Almost always an exciting fighter. He had the physical tools to be quite a bit better... but his life was a shitshow. He was doomed from the gate.
     
  4. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    He lacked discipline and was protected for far too long, before being placed in with a live opponent. He was entertaining and good as high end journeyman-clubfighters go.. There might even have been a brief period at the height of his game where he actually qualified as a lower echelon contender, but that didn't last.
     
  5. dinovelvet

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    If Arroela was out every month he'd be a LHW. We're taking Duke at his very best here.

    Chris plods forward in straight lines. Morrison bounces around him beating him to within an inch of his life.

    Tommy wins and that's that.
     
  6. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    Its amazing what 20 years and a little imagination can turn a guy into.. If Morrison has become some sort of Master boxer after two decades, then Floyd Mayweather will likely be regarded as a one punch KO artist by about 2034.
     
  7. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    Listen up kid. Arroela beat nobody. His power is overrated. Stervine has a glass chin and he wiped the floor with him.
    Who did he beat? Mitchel? The guy who was slaughtererd by CW Banks who got got stopped by Adamek.

    Duke beat Foreman and knocked out Ruddock. Ruddock would of creamed Arroela.
     
  8. Unforgiven

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    Morrison was mediocre. Anyone who can clearly recall his career knows it.

    Arreola is mediocre too. But he's durable.
     
  9. dinovelvet

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    He was mediocre in a good era. He fought every month.

    Chisora gave Vitali a harder fight than Arroela. Does he beat Duke as well?
     
  10. Bummy Davis

    Bummy Davis Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    He hit too hard for Morrison's chin, I have seen Tommy shaken or KO'd on a few occasions against a Russian Yuri,Hipp,Purity, Mercer and others, Bent dropped him 3 times in the 1st and that was not supposed to Happen. Tommy may hit harder with the hook, Chris with the right but Areola had the better chin
     
  11. mr. magoo

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    -Stiverne was beaten only once by a stoppage that was controversial.. I don't know where this **** about him having a weak chin comes from.

    -Ruddock was washed up and had fought only once in two and half years. He decked Morrison regardless, before being stopped controversially.

    -The Foreman fight is his only win in a fight where he momentarily changed his style for one night and against a guy who looked about as lazy as I've ever seen him..

    - Seth Mitchell was better than a fair number of the stiffs Duke fought.. And that "cruiserweight" who stopped him was 6'3" 218 lbs, and had been fighting at heavyweight for five years.
     
  12. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    He might.
     
  13. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Chisora might beat him.
     
  14. hookfromhell

    hookfromhell Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Gotta say Tommy was a contender, this was the 90s a stacked division of
    punchers. I don't think anyone would have taken Morrison lightly.
    He had flaws that made him exciting, Arreola hasn't really developed
    or progressed since his shot back in 2009 or 2010? Im a huge fan of
    Chris, but who has he beat in 5 years? Mitchell sucks, he messed up his hand
    in a loss to Adamek who Chris should have stopped, I remember another unknown fighter that was there for Chris to stop and he barely won. Gotta say Tommy was
    a contender, and Arreola is a journeyman, or is he a contender now because hes fighting for a vacant belt. Gotta say Tommy's chin wasn't glass, he did walk into
    a lot of shots, and aside from the Mercer fight didnt have a humiliating KO loss.
    LOve Chris to death, I think Tommy makes him cry in the post fight interview.
     
  15. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Here I okie a Tommy. Chris too slow and poorly conditioned. Kind of a Joe Hipp replay