I suspect I know why Arreola management picked Vitali

Simply because Vitali is the current easiest & quickest route to a belt & Arreola has a short prime shelf life

Wlad is all wrong for Arreola and will be around for a long time yet. He'd be fleet footed enough to keep Arreola at the end of his jab all night feeding him 1/2 after 1/2 till a KO so no belt here unless Povetkin upsets Wlad.

Both Haye/Valuev will be tied up with Ruiz & the WBA politics for a long time yet.

Arreola's management know he is not getting younger. They know that even though he is young his boxing style and lifestyle will progressively catch up with him as he ages. He keeps putting on weight and he certainly won't get slower so this is simply them making the best of a bad situation. Arreola must strike now hence why the picked the one available guy who they *may* be able to catch on the slide. Arreola wilkl bull rush Vitali at the start mark my words. They know he's aging they know his footwork is going and his speed a bit too so they're striking now in the hope they might be able to get the upset someone else might have if they opted out on this chance. A loss here won't be the end of Arreola, he could lose and still do relatively well later perhaps.


The bottom line is as Arreola's not going to become a technical marvel over his career. Youth, power and decent speed are his traits and they won't last. When that bell rings he's going for the kill, he'll go out like a Spartan either taking Vitali out or going out himself.

This fight won't go past 6 rounds which is why I give Arreola a better chance than many here on ESB seem to be giving. It'll be mental!!!

 

Tell david Haye that! (sorry I couldn't resist! :good)

I agree but this is why I think Arreola will just go all out. To try and box or plod like Gomez/Peter is folly. He MUST attack relenttlessly the second that bell rings.

 

****......just look at the fat folds on his head. That's disgusting.

 

Taken from the interview on ESB's front page with Arreola's trainer:

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. Chris has a crowd-pleasing style and we're expecting to win; despite what some of your readers on the web site say. I don't mind the criticism and the comments, but some guys attack Chris almost on a personal level, when they don't even know him! And some of what they say is just stupid.


H.R: No, we've had no problems whatsoever. Dan Goossen had no problems and Al Haymon had no problems. I don't know about what Haye was asked to sign, but at the same time, why shouldn't the Klitschkos make demands of him? It's not as if he's earned a fight with them. Okay, he was a great cruiserweight champion and he achieved a lot there, but at heavyweight he's done nothing. Chris has been a heavyweight his entire career and he's earned this fight way more than Haye earned one. It's a big jump, too [for Haye to go up to heavyweight]. I mean, if you go up from 140-pounds to 147, you can do well and win. But from cruiser to heavyweight, you're talking a good 30 or 40 pounds. It's a lot different and a lot more difficult.

H.R: No, actually we're going to stand on the outside and try to win a boxing contest! (laughs) No, you're pretty much right in what you say. It would be total B.S if I said we were going to try and box on the outside - there's no way we could win the fight like that.

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Lol - seems I was spot on! Pretty much exactly as I summed it up before ESB posted this.

P.S. Left the Haye quote in there:good for good measure!