Weights: Vitali Klitschko 252, Chris Arreola 251

[Dave Rado]

Hey Wlad_Owns alt shut up no one pays attention to you on here. Go back to your closet you alt trolling clown. there's only 1 klitscho fan on this whole board and there's abou 5 accounts. Quit trolling.

and i know you're a teenager and don't know much about this sport but about 9 or 10 years ago chris bird took a fight against VItali ON ONE WEEKS NOTICE and whooped the **** out of vitali. I know it was before your time so your ignorance is ignored and guess what vitali quit on his stool while being dominated almost every round! he had an "injury" don't you feel ******.

You're being ridiculous - the scorecards were: 88-83, 88-83, and 89-82 in Vitali's favour. At the most, Bird won two rounds out of nine. You're the one who appears not to know much about boxing!

[Dave Rado]

Round 1 don't look like a slip to me If Arreola could do that work for a couple of rounds, he may have a chance.
Though slim.

Vitali got rocked early there. I mean guy went all the way across the ring then crumbled.

He was certainly badly rocked, whether he slipped or not. The bell came at a very good time for him.

[Dave Rado]

Just saying, just cause Arreola's fat doesn't mean he can't fight.

Thing is, he weighed 239 only 15 months ago, and in most of his fights before that he weighed well under 240. And he looked faster and sharper when he was lighter than he has done since he ballooned in weight. No way is his natural fighting weight anything above 240. Those who claim weight doesn't matter are being ridiculous. Every fighter has a peak fighting weight, and Arreola's is probably around 235lb.

[MR.CHICANITO]

And new heavyweight champion of the worrrrld!!

yeah man chris arreola should haved dedicated his whole life for 3 months just to show up in tip top shape for the biggest fight of his life..win ..lose..or draw still there is no reason why arreola shouldnot be taking vitali klitchsko serious..this is a chance of a lifetime and if the top heavyweight contender cant act like a professional then i guess the heavyweight division is really in trouble now

[Eaner0919]

vitali looks ripped. arreola looks like a fat ****. how come the weigh in was on thursday instead of the usual 1 day before the fight?

heavyweight weigh ins are two days before because they dont have to dry out

[Dave Rado]

Found a fine comment on another forum:

QUOTE "keyser":

Quite a few predictions about Arreola winning, from forums and "experts". Arreola is just too young and fresh, hits hard and often, and is tough with a big heart..

Not that long ago Samuel Peter was suppose to have sledgehammers in each hand and was going to clean out the division, he put up a good fight agains Wlad and was suppose to be much improved against the robotic Vitali and Vitali would have too much ring rust. Samuel didnīt win a round. After the fight Samuel is thought to be an obese nobody with no skills and the fact that he didn'd land a single good punch on Vitali has nothing to do with his state of mind today.

Juan Carlos Gomez was predicted by MANY(especially right on this forum, read threads about how he would would make the Klitschko's look slow and amateurish) to be next big thing in the heavyweight division. The amazing Cuban boxer would outbox the old rusty Vitali. He won 1 round against Vitali. And I do think heīs a very good boxer, and also with a very long reach and would give most everyone huge problems. Now people say he was overrated.

Danny Williams was going to give Vitali problems because he had a huge heart and Vitali had "stamina problems". He didnīt win a round.

Corrie "the sniper" Sanders had KO'd a bunch of boxers in the first round, and Lennox himself was convinced he would pummel Vitali, and he gave him "secrets" in his training sessions. Corrie caught Vitali in the first round, then lost the rest and was beaten to a concussioned, ruptured ear drum, bloody mess. Now people say Corrie was an overweight golfer.

yada yada yada.... Vitali will at most lose 1 round, maybe the first(but Iīll put money on him not losing a single round), and heīll win by KO. After the fight people will say Arreola was a fat lazy mess with no skills. Many will wonder why he didnīt rush in with more punches and wasn't agressive and had no plan B. Like how Danny Williams was gonna try and bull charge him, but got hit on the button right away and down the drain went his plans.

Good one.

How is that a good comment?

Peter had looked very bad against Maskaev. No one with any boxing knowledge thought he had any chance against Vitali, although admittedly, few expected it to be as one sided as it was. Vitali fought better than anyone expected him to, given the long layoff, but to pretend that Peter was supposed to clean out the division is just ridiculous. Who is that poster trying to fool? He seems to have fooled you, anyway!

Everyone knew that Gomez was going to get battered by Vitali, in fact the big surprise in that fight was that he lasted as long as he did. Gomez had been a good Cruiserweight, but that was seven years earlier. He had spent nearly seven years at heavyweight fighting nobodies; had never fought a single top 10 heavyweight; and had been stopped in one round by a journeyman called Yanqui Diaz. To pretend that anyone who knew anything about boxing gave Gomez even an outside chance against Vitali is pathetic.

Danny Williams has always been a journeyman, who had already lost to such "all time greats" as Michael Sprott, Sinan Samil Sam and Julius Francis. No one expected him to win a round against Vitali, and to pretend otherwise is rewriting history big time.


It's one of the most idiotic, delusional posts I have ever read in my life, and by quoting it approvingly, you have shown that you know little or nothing about boxing.

[vitali1999]

Nobody with a body like that is beating Vitali the great. Its really pathetic that a guy who is ten years Klitschkos junior looks like that, it looks like Arreola is the guy thats 38 with a body like that, and Vitali is 28. Yeah i know a great figure doesn't mean a good fighter, but thats simply not the case with Vitali.

[Boxing Scene]

A picture of the man who put down Vitali once, (watch the first round and tell me if that was a slip) and Wlad four times.

This ain't a bodybuildin contest, it's a fight.


I hope Arreola brings it, and may the best man win.

It was a slip. That was not a knockdown, period. Corrie Sanders doesn't punch nearly as hard as Lewis and Vitali was never hurt in that fight once except for the cut.

[Lacrimosa]

It was a slip. That was not a knockdown, period. Corrie Sanders doesn't punch nearly as hard as Lewis and Vitali was never hurt in that fight once except for the cut.

I agree that there was no knock down in the fight. But i think that Sanders had bigger punching ability. Even Vitali told that Corrie punchers harder than Lewis... And, just visually, Sanders had more velocity in his punches.

And also he did one thing that only really good punchers do: when he throws his punches, near the end of the way his fist and forearm turns for some 90 degrees to the inside (i tried to explain as good as i could ), which gives the punch additional range and power!

[βetamax]

Uh, he doesn't look good at all. He's capable of coming in much lighter. Here he is at 230 just a few years ago: