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by David P. Greisman - The measure of a man is the primary purpose of a fair fight. Everything else — the adulation and the money and the various championship belts — is secondary. The fight is a demonstration of what a man is and what he can be, a potentially extraordinary exhibit of skill and heart and determination, all within the context of combat.
There are other measurements taken before a fight for the sake of showing how fair this pugilistic pairing will be: age, height, weight and reach. Those numbers, along with each man’s amount of wins and losses, can be misleading.
On the day before they were to take the measure of each other, Chris Arreola and Seth Mitchell both weighed in at 242 pounds. That was nearly all they had in common.
There were other similarities. Arreola is 32 years old, Mitchell is 31. Arreola is 6-foot-3, while Mitchell is half an inch shorter. Mitchell’s reach is 78 inches, two inches longer than that of Arreola. They both were once heavyweight prospects placed in the spotlight and put on the fast track toward a shot at the two best fighters in their division, Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko. [Click Here To Read More]
There are other measurements taken before a fight for the sake of showing how fair this pugilistic pairing will be: age, height, weight and reach. Those numbers, along with each man’s amount of wins and losses, can be misleading.
On the day before they were to take the measure of each other, Chris Arreola and Seth Mitchell both weighed in at 242 pounds. That was nearly all they had in common.
There were other similarities. Arreola is 32 years old, Mitchell is 31. Arreola is 6-foot-3, while Mitchell is half an inch shorter. Mitchell’s reach is 78 inches, two inches longer than that of Arreola. They both were once heavyweight prospects placed in the spotlight and put on the fast track toward a shot at the two best fighters in their division, Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko. [Click Here To Read More]
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