Vitali looked stiff legged tonight. His legs seemed to be gone.

That's because of his opponent, he looked fine and good against Peter because Peter did nothing and never attempted to do anything either when Vitali was off for nearly 4 years going into that one.

Arreola was putting some serious pressure on him and FORCED Vitali to work, I thought Vitali might run out of gas as Arreola constantly put pressure on him. Even when Vitali looked to take a round off Arreola forced him to stay active. Vitali just had the chin and stamina to fight through it and I'm sure Arreola and his team expected Vitali to get tired as the fight goes as MANY others thought. This fight erases ANY doubts about stamina, an aggressive opponent is a perfect test for stamina.

Compared to all other heavyweights Arreola is definitely one of the best available, he tried but couldnt' pull it off. Arreola was KILLING his self trying and you can see it in his eyes IN the corner and in the ring. He never even showed his corner not for a second a sign he's in pain or ignoring his corner's advice. He listened to his corner and sometimes discussed with them. Who else in the heavyweight division will show that kind of will(Klitschkos aside)?, I give Povetkin the best chance but no one else will come in this hungry and determined.

 

Stacy McKinley: “Vitali Klitschko is probably the best thinking fighter heavyweight since Muhammad Ali. He’s a very smart, intelligent fighter. Very smart,” said McKinley last week in an interview we did in New York City. “He can box, he can throw punches from all angles. He can move. He can take a punch. He’s tall. He’s busy. He’s very hard to hit. Good thinker. Oh, he’s a helluva thinker.”

McKinley got a close up view of the WBC Heavyweight champion in Berlin last year while working with Samuel Peter. “That’s what I said when I fought him with Samuel Peters. I said, Don’t try to think with this guy. Don’t try to out-box or out-think this guy. Get in there and fight this guy. But he want to sit back and try to out-think him. You can’t do it. And I told him, He’s probably the smartest heavyweight I’ve seen in the ring since Muhammad Ali. And I’ve seen a lot of good fighters. Larry Holmes and all them were good fighters but they weren’t good thinkers. This guy Vitali is a great thinker. It seems like he knows what you’re gonna do before you start to do it. So he’s very, very, very cagey. I don’t think nobody can beat him.”

When I ask which fight or fights of Vitali were most impressive which convinced him to become a believer, he replies, “Well, the Lennox Lewis fight. The left-hander he fought that beat his brother (Corrie Sanders). All these guys he fought. He’s just so smart. He moves good. A real intelligent fighter.”

Then I suggest something many pundits have not yet begun to accept or contemplate. Is Vitali one of the heavyweight greats of all time? McKinley does not disagree. “One of the greats and that’s what I said. I told him. I haven’t seen one that smart since Muhammad Ali. I told him after the fight with Peters, post press conference. Smartest I’ve seen as far as thinking. Most of the guys can’t think that well. He’s just great, man, a great thinker. Since Muhammad Ali. He’s that smart.”

Does Cristobal Arreola have any chance to beat Vitali? “No,” replies McKinley without a hint of doubt. “Three or four rounds he might get knocked out. He can’t beat that kid. Standing up too straight, he ain’t got the chin or the skills. This guy, like I tell you, he knows what he’s doing. And I was talking to his brother Wladimir, he was down in Miami. I said, Have you and your brother ever sparred together?

“Wladimir said, No, we’re too competitive. I said, Let me tell you something. That’s a smart boy. He said, Yeah, he’s very hard to fight. I said, You don’t have to tell me. He’s very hard. He’s the best heavyweight out there. I don’t think anybody can beat him.”

Does McKinley believe Vitali is the superior heavyweight fighter to Wladimir? “Oh yeah. He’d knock Wladimir out. Wladimir’s got good, basic fundamentals but he couldn’t do nothing with that kid. Kid’s too good, man. And I knew we were gonna have a hard fight with Samuel Peters. I said, Go in and put pressure on, cut the ring off and fight him. Don’t think with him. Don’t try to out-box him. Because you can’t out-think him. You’ve got to fight him. But he tried to think and you saw what happened. It was no contest. He quit.”

 

I don't have to read this drivel. This is how I know you're not an informative poster. Arreola didn't put "serious" pressure on Vitali. He was slow as hell and was terrible at cutting off the ring. His following at .1 mph is not serious pressure. A 45 Year Old Foreman has better foot-speed than that. If that's serious pressure, then I want to know what isn't "serious pressure" and consists of still moving forward. Nothing, according to your criteria.

 

Of course if you notice Vitaly is almost 40 years old and He is way past his prime stil He beat the **** out of this fat Heavyweights. A Vitaly that fought Lewis Sanders and Kirk Jhonson would have Koead Arreola very early.

 

A 45 year old Foreman have better foot speed then Vitali? stfu.

 

Man you people here are ****ing ******ed idiots who can't read. How in the hell do you decipher me implying that. I'm talking about Arreola you jackass... so blind about wanting to attack me you look like a ****ing idiot in doing so.

 

Foreman at 45 years old don't even have better footspeed then Arreola lol. Didn't Foreman easily lose to freaking Morrison? lol what footspeed? Oh i get it Foreman in reality did beat Briggs so i guess you got a point on 1 fight at his age.

 

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His hand speed looked slow (probably due to his age) and that's about all that I saw wrong with him. Other than that it was a great overall performance by Vitali. You ****s need to quit hating