Is Arreola a shot fighter?
August 14th, 2010
By Jason Kim: For some fighters, 29 is over-the-hill. Heavyweight Chris Arreola (29-2, 25 KO’s) is now 29-years-old and he’s looking more and more like he’s not the fighter that he used to be and may no longer have it for some reason. On Friday night, Arreola struggled to beat a smaller and weaker puncher in Manuel Quezada (29-6, 18 KO’s), beating him by a 12 round unanimous decision at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California.
But Arreola looked painfully slow and his power seems to be completely gone for some reason. You can’t say his power just now disappeared because didn’t look overpowering in his recent 12 round decision loss to Tomasz Adamek last April.
And you can’t say that Arreola is over-trained because he weighed 250 for Adamek and weighed even more last night at 256 lbs. The only way I could see Arreola being weight drained is if he started training camp weighing in the neighborhood of 300 pounds.
In that case, I could see why Arreola’s power may have disappeared. Losing 40 to 50 pounds of blubber will sap strength in many cases if the weight is taken off over a two month period.
I know Arreola came into training camp for the Klitschko fight weighing near 300, but if he did the same thing for the Adamek and Quezada fight, then that probably explains why Arreola isn’t punching with the same kind of power he was when he was routinely weighing in the upper 230s during his best years.
If Arreola is using training camps as a fat farm, then he deserves to look bad because training camps weren’t meant to be used to take off massive amounts of weight. Arreola is supposed to be staying in relatively good condition year round, but something tells me he’s not. I don’t know what Arreola can do to change this other than having his trainer move in with him and live in the kitchen to guard the refrigerator.
But the trainer would have to tail Arreola all day long to make sure that he doesn’t stop off at a fast food joint and engulf a massive amount of fattening foods and drink beer. If Arreola was to stay in the 250 neighborhood and come into training camp at that weight, he could easily fight at 230 or maybe even less than that.
In looking at Arreola’s physique, he appears to be 40 to 50 pounds overweight. I know it would be impossible for him to take it all off, but I think he could at least take off 15 pounds during training camp to come in at 230 for his next fight if he steered clear of eating massive amounts of food and came into training camp at 255 instead of 300.
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Aerreola emphaticaly prove all your haters wrong stay busy eat like a heavywieght and train like one,you can achieve more respect,Go after it you won your last fight and came real close against Adamek,that was a tough loss.
Arreola has no discipline. He does not seem totally committed to his training. I dont think his shot just yet, he just needs to train harder and lose that weight
I WAS TOO HARSH WITH MY LAST COMMENTS ABOUT CHRIS………HE IS SO MENTALY CHALLENGED THE CALIFORNIA COMMISSION SHOULD MONITOR HIS PHYSICAL DECLINE AS TIME GOES ON………I LOOK FOR HIM TO BE WALKING ON HIS HEELS AT THE END………..SO MUCH TALENT FOR A HEAVY WEIGHT……….WHAT A WASTE………..IT JUST MAKES ME SO MAD ………..IS THERE SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT CAN GET NEXT TO HIM AND MAKE HIM SEE THE LIGHT
no no no the writer is looking at this from totally the wrong view !!
Arreola has not lost 40 – 50 pounds in 2 months, he is always at 250 ish and if he has maybe its time to start drug testing because that is excessive
my theory is he continued his obvious awful diet and done his usual training (which must be low in cardio). the food he puts into his body will sap his strength, if he doesnt feed his body the correct things his body will react in a negative way
- i expect a high suger diet
- too much booze (considering most knock it on the head)
- too many carbs and not enough protiens
- too many fatty foods
- all proteins based on either KFC or McDonalds (serious)
all of those will have a total negative effect on his body for the fight
FATTYOLA WILL BE A TOP 10 IN ANY ERROR, AND I MEANT TO SAY ERROR. TIME IS WASTIN ON FATTYOLA. BEER ANYONE?????
Anyone that engage in a profession as demanding and artistically beautiful like boxing should be respectful of himself but most of all the people to pay to see him fight. I won’t take anything from his victory because at the end it is a victory, but either he trim down and get serious as a boxer or he should get the F…out of the business before he end up crying like a girl and with the tail between his legs just like in his “kill-sh-ck-nockout” boxing sparing.
Arreola ‘over trained’? All his training camps put together & he wouldn’t be over trained & being weight drained is one thing Chris doesn’t have to worry about.
He openly admitted he never really did road work till the K-Bro fight. It’s not hard to find a road Chris, probably one in front of your house. Just look out the kitchen window, that’s obviously the room you spend the most time in.
Some guys can come into fights heavy & perform, because of talent. George Foreman did it in his comeback. James Toney seemed to move up in weight every fight for a few years however Toney was born with mad skills.
Chris on the other hand has only one thing going for him; a big ‘Hail Mary’ punch. In the upper reaches of any division that’s simply not enough.
If I were David Haye I would ask my management to score a fight with Chris, in the USA. Good exposure for Haye with what looks to me like very little risk.
Yeah Quezada was tough in that fight, but the Fat Drunken Latino is simply pathetic. Whoever rated him top 10 now is loony. And to everyone (including The Nip) saying he just needs to train harder and eat less and lose weight…. WAKE UP!!! That’s been said for about a half dozen fights now… ONE OF WHICH WAS A TITLE FIGHT!!! This bum WILL NEVER take boxing seriously. He was LUCKY he fought tomato cans on his way up… and he ALMOST got KOd by Travis Walker 2-3 years ago… the FIRST significant fighter he fought. This guy is all air, beer and tacos. Nothing more. What a bum. Complete LOSER!
no just fat.
the guy is an always was a BUM
Shot WTF! So because you didnt win in style its called shot? Nah Quezada just wouldnt give up he has Huge Heart! Much props to Quezada! Now for Arreola besides the weight isue what concerns me the most is that hes been holding back on his punches ever since the Vitalli fight. I’m wondering if he has damaged his hand to the point were it may harm his performance!
He’s still can become something if he lays off the Beer and Tacos! he needs to get down in the mid 230 pounds to 245 if hes going to do something!
i went to mike tyson evening event and tyson said david haye fighting the klitschkos would be disasterous
q disgrace to the heavyweights
back in the tyson era he wouldnt be top 20
and in the ali era he wouldnt be top 50
He is definitely a shot fighter! He was never a Top Heavy Weight to begin with, just a lot of hype to try & put a American heavy weight in the picture. There is no discipline in his body. This guy has been fighting the same exact way from the start. He is not getting better with each fight plus he throws a bunch of sloppy punches. Someone needs to teach this guy the basics. I don’t know why he’s even ranked in the top 10 among heavy weights.
arreo;a in 2 years will achieve in boxing more weight only. he is just too lazy 2 train properly. klitschko made him cry and adamek beat him in his 3rd heavyweight fight only. arreola is a nice guy, but world champion needs to look like one. none of us wanna look at fat, mexican-american who eats too many buritos and “training very gard” gains more and more weight…lol…
First of all Arreola as never been that special ever just overated because he was undefeated and Secondly it wasn’t like he got split decision or a controversal decision he won and won it clearly thats what matters.
I wernt disapointed in this fight I knew what to expect and got it, I think Arreola is still as good if not better then before he lost to Vitali its just opponents are better quality there for isn’t as one sided Arreola is good but nothing special.
His aging will also make him better when he’s 33ish he will probs be champ then he’l retire about 39 – 42 depending on his conditioning and will to fight or need of money.