fit into this muddled heavyweight picture? Can he come back stronger after his loss to Chris Arreola? I know that he has won few fights over some journeyman type fighters, but can he put himself back in the mix?
[yt]_NPcMNRQgHE[/yt] Thing is, Arreola didn't even look all that great; Chazz just let himself get abused. Too tight, too nervous, too trigger-shy, too immobile...this is a bad brew for a heavyweight fighting a live body. If he can move (or commit to effectively making someone miss if he's going to just stand in front of them) and counterpunch with confidence and bad intentions, he can be successful at maybe the B level.
IB, thanks for getting the ball rolling on this thread, I was beginning to think that I was all alone here, lol. As for the Arreola fight, I just think that Witherspoon's fighting instincts came out and that threw him off his wisest gameplan which was to stay on the outside, work the jab, and outbox Arreola to a decision. Instead, the beast came out in him and he got into a dog fight with a brawler, which isn't always the wisest course of action.
Well Witherspoon sure hasn't helped his growth trajectory by taking on nothing but tomato cans since losing to Arreola: www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=284612&cat=boxer He has some skills,but it seems to me like he started too late to really reach the top level. If he steps up the opposition, maybe he can rebound somewhat and be a contender.
I'm just not feeling it when it comes to Chazz, I think he's a decent boxer with that Witherspoon background but I don't know if he can really push himself to be the best around. Eddie Chambers showed against Dimitrenko that he'd found that desire...Chazz needs to find it just as quick.
It would be nice if he stepped it up a notch and really gave 100% in all of his fights. He seems to not have the drive and desire to push forward and get to the top.
At the bottom. I really don;t see too much out of him to be honest. And like another poster said he started too late.
