Arreola V Klitchko May 12 at Staples

[Mojita]

Good. Get that hypejob out the way. I hate when people milk fighters like him tobe the next big thing..

[Welter_Skelter]

But here is the problem with the division: Who else is there??

I thought Wlad was supposed to fight Povetkin..

[xEDDIEx]

So there is no one better than Arreola to challenge Wladimir?

This is another Wlad vs Rahman fight, except shorter.

i dont think so, if arreola shows up in good shape he has a chance of catching klitschko. rahman is a joke.

[raabd]

I like arreola and i'm hoping he wins but I cant see it happening. He had trouble with walkers jab in the first round which kept him at a distance and we all know that klitchko has the jab from hell. He should fight chagaev, povetkin or any other top ten guy. Arreola does good imo against anyone except klitchko.

[Davros?]

well Arrelo has a punchers chance thats for sure but he looked awfull in his last fight, i would see Wlad landing loads of jabs and scoring a 5 round KO.

[SickmyDuck]

Arreola will get the **** beaten out of him

Its not gonna go well for him

[HeartAttack]

this is the best fight Arreola could take right now in terms of money and in terms of developing him as a fighter. Arreola isn't going to learn how to slip punches or how to handle himself in the clinch until he faces a technically sound fighter with a good jab who is also strong enough to keep Cristobal from working where he wants to. Sure it will be a painful to gain this invaluable experience, but NONE of the young heavyweights today would give him the looks that Wlad could in these respects. Sure the most likely scenario is Arreola ending up unconscious and losing his "0", but hey I feel losing is okay and sometimes it completes a fighter. Arreola will learn fast how to get by a jab and how to move his head more avoiding punches, and will have to use his strong shoulders to keep Wlad from holding him on the inside once he gets Wlad to stop laying on him like he does on everyone but Thompson (too damn tall). I know there is always a punchers chance for Arreola to win, and besides Povetkin's style, Cristobal's is the best to beat Wlad. However, Arreola's chin will hold up better than Sasha's. but can he throw the same combinations with as much accuracy as Povetkin can, that will be the question. Its a good fight between two good heavyweights. it won't do anything for Wlad, but its the future of the division we're hoping gets better because the present is rather pathetic.

[badboypeenoy]

To quote Oscar Dela Hoya: "His style and my style, sooner or later, we're bound to clash; there will be a knock-out."

Go Arreola!!!!!


Wow, 2009 is looking good. After Pacman vs. Hatton, we get Arreola vs. Klitschko a week later. Hooowahhh!

[-MAKAVELLI-]

HW showdown at Staples...yes please

[HappyBoxingFan]

There are initial-plans in place for heavyweight slugger Chris Arreola to face WBO/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in the summer. At the conclusion of Toney-Oquendo, Dan Goosen commented, “If you sat us all down here, manager, trainer, fighter, we’d all say Klitschko makes a lot of sense right now if the fight can be made under reasonable terms. We’ve said all along that 2009 was going to be Cristobal’s year and we haven’t swayed from that. We’re ready and boxing needs a tornado like Chris.”

Later on in the night, BoxingScene.com accompanied Arreola and his team to the Chandelier Bar inside the Morongo Casino. Arreola was with some friends, his trainer Henry Ramirez, and Wes Crockett, the Al Haymon associate who discovered him when he was fighting on club shows.

Arreola was in good spirits throughout the evening and happy about the early Christmas gift he bought for himself with the reported $250,000 dollar payday he earned for the Walker bout, “I bought a fully loaded Ford F-150. It’s beautiful; it’s raised with 22 inch rims. I went to the dealer and the guy treated me different. He was like, do you want to trade in your other two cars for a new F-150 and I was like, no, I want to buy it straight out and he looked at me as though I wasn’t going to be able to do it until some other salesmen came up and told who I was and then he was like, can I get you anything else.”

Wes Crockett, a kind of talent-scout who initially brought Paul Williams and Arreola to Al Haymon’s attention, came to the Toney fight with a large group that included former USC football standout Mike Williams and a number of other close friends. Mike Williams and Arreola actually seemed to hit it off as the former college football star joked with Chris, “They say you’re going to be the first Mexican heavyweight champion, but with that big-ass nose, you might be black!”

Later on in the night BoxingScene was involved in a round-table discussion with Mr. Crockett and he stated, “I’ve been fighting since I was five years old, and I knew when I saw Chris and Paul [Williams] that they were going to be champions, they both had the talent and they are both natural-born fighters, I could see it in their eyes. It’s done, Chris is fighting Klitschko on May 12 at the Staples Center, and it’s a done deal.”

BoxingScene.com was astonished by the information and since it was received in a socially-intimate environment, Crockett was asked if the information could be reported and he responded, “I don’t give a f-ck, write what you want.”

A few moments later, Henry Ramirez had a smile on his face that was either from the sweet taste of corona or the thought of Arreola fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world and he proudly stated with a grin, “We are coming after Klitschko; we’re taking the fight to him!”

So after going through a couple of years without having a heavyweight matchup to get excited about... we have two with in the span of a couple months. Awesome.