Chris Arreola Making a Play for the Klitschko Brothers

[Ray*]

This fight is too early for arreola imo, He needs another one or two tough/hard fight before he goes for anyone of the klits, Arreola has the power but he needs the experience and discipline to take on anyone of those two.

[HeartAttack]

Arreola/Vitali would be fairly interesting for a couple rounds. Then Vitali would time him to death, or at least, unconsciousness. Haye/Arreola would be great right now, but it won't happen based on money that could be lost for Haye. For the people bitching about Cristobal not earning his shot at Vitali, um, really. I mean, it's not like Vitali is the champion or anything. His brother is. Vitali and Arreola would be two top 10 contenders facing off, that makes for a good fight. Why the bitching? Vitali would only fight Valuev if that is by far the highest grosing bout, and unfrotunately it might be. Otherwise, he wants to shut Haye uo, and or earn a marginally easier victory over Arreola. Cristobal is fun to watch and even listen to, but he isn't a Klitschko beater by any means.

[UKBRAWLER]

Is this comment serious? David Haye gets a shot at Wlad for fighting shot barrett and that bonin dude or whatever his name is.

Haye does not deserve a shot yet either

[alembic]

A few days ago I read an article here which highlighted some comments by David Haye about Wlad's beatdown of Chagaev. Aside from the usual "he's boring to watch" stuff, there was one observation which peaked my interest. Haye mentioned how Wlad seemed to panic and stiffen his arms outward whenever Chagaev got inside to fire a punch. I also noticed this very early in the fight and felt if Chagaev could consistently upset Wlad through this type of pressure, he might have a chance. Of course Wlad's jab and control of distance killed that notion.

But I think Arreola has the aggression and smarts to get inside. I still think Wlad, despite being a physical specimen with excellent skills, is deathly scared of being tagged on the chin. Arreola would be fighting against time though. Maybe he's got 3 or 4 rounds before Wlad completely takes over. If Arrelola uses deft head movement to slide past Wlad's jabs (i.e. Ali-Frazier I), he can get inside and be effective. That may be enough to get the ball rolling because beating Wlad is about discouraging him first.

[Lacrimosa]

Lets be fair though, have any of Wlads most recent opponents gone after him the way Brewster did?

Not really, Arreola as limited as he might be, does go after his guy. I think he can catch that chin and put him down. I think it would be interesting to see.

Btw, I've seen a huge improvement in Wlads game as well, but I think if Arreola can get inside their and land a couple of good shots, it can make Wlad tentative and unravel him mentally.

This is one fight I'm looking forward to.

I hope that is the result of Wlad`s improvements. It isn`t a new thing to hear, that Wlad hits with a jab, like the other guys hit with their power shots...

I hope this is the result of hard work and his technic, that his opponents are unable to get him...

Arreola showed that he is vulnerable in his fight with Whitaker (???)... he didn`t fall in that K.D., but he wisely took a knee cause he WAS HURT, and, My God, Wlad is arguably one of the hardest punchers of couple of recent decades!

He can hurt Chris much more!

I do agree that Arreola will try to put some preassure on him, and while doing this, he will be countered... This fight has all the posibility not to last even 6 rounds... Somebody will get hurt quickly