Arreola defeats Releford; Thompson beats Harris
May 27th, 2011
By Jim Dower: Making a quick return after stopping Nagy Aguilera just two weeks ago, heavyweight contender Chris Arreola (32-2, 28 KO’s) defeated journeyman Kendrick Releford (22-15-2, 10 KO’s) by a 7th round TKO on Friday night at the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada.
It was an okay win for Arreola. He wasn’t as powerful as he used to be, but he weighed only 236 for the fight and the lack weight seems to have taken away from Arreola’s power.
In other action on the card, 39-year-old Tony Thompson (36-2, 24 KO’s) won his fifth consecutive fight in stopping Maurice Harris (24-15-2, 10 KO) in the 3rd round in an International Boxing Federation heavyweight title eliminator bout. The 6’5” southpaw Thompson knocked Harris down in both the 2nd and 3rd rounds of a one-sided fight. Thompson dropped Harris with a mean flurry of shots in the 2nd, and in the 3rd, Thompson put Harris down with a right hook. To his credit, the badly hurt Harris got back to his feet but was hit with a series of hard shots until referee Vic Drakulich halted the fight at 1:51 of the 3rd. With this win, Thompson is in position to once again challenge IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, who already knocked out Thompson three years ago in an 11th round TKO win. It’s likely that Thompson will get knocked out much quicker in a rematch, as he’s slowed since the last time he fought Wladimir.
Undefeated junior middleweight prospect Javier Molina (7-0, 4 KO’s) won a six round unanimous decision over David Lopez (3-6, 3 KO’s). The final judges’ scores were 60-53, 59-54 and 59-54. Molina, a 2008 Olympian for the United States, knocked Lopez down with a right hand in the 1st. Molina then pretty much had his way with Lopez for the remainder of the fight. Lopez did come on a little in the 4th and found it easy to land shots against Molina. This is an area that Molina is going to need to work on – his defense.
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Aereola is nothing more than a goosey slave he is not impressive slow and fights bums too look better yup its a goosey workin
Q completely agree, he looked easy to hit, didnt seem to be punching with the same intensity and starting shaking his arms out after 2 rounds which to me is a sign of him tiring. he has lost alot of weight so maybe he has overtrained but even so he didnt look good.
why is everyone saying arreola looked good?? he looked terrible, still no defense, just a tad quicker but his power is drained, he couldnt even drop releford who had been dropped by a guy with a 2-0 record 9 months ago.. all arreola did was lose some fat but put no muscle on..he looked terrible! he absolutely has no pop on his punches now. put him back in with travis walker, i bet travis walker drops him again.
Arreola and thompson looked good. I don’t see them beating the klitschkos though.
now fight someone with a winning record and look as good and then he might be worth talking about ..tell then punching tomato cans that are nothing more than a pay to watch sparring
Chris looked good with the weight loss, and his boxing skills have improved. He wasn’t throwing those wide-open, looping shots as much as he used to. He threw solid uper cuts and hooks to the head and body. If Arreola stays busy at the same weight, fighting every two or three months, he can become a top 10 contender again in a year of so. Best of luck to him.
Arreola combanations are much quicker now and hes cutting off his apponents well. Sure Releford was no top ten fighter but its good for Arreola to stay active and get some rounds in. Arreola should challenge someone with a more known name next time maybe someone like Toney. Tua or Thompson! after he beats any of them he should take on Adamek! Chris hurt Adamek and he almost knocked him out, but Arreola did not come in shape for that fight and if hes in shape this time around Chris will win easily!
Arreola should fight Adamek next! Rather Adamek lose or wins I think this time around Arreola will beat Adamek! Arreola and Thompson did not shine tonight but thats because styles makes fights! just ask Manny on his most recent win over Mosley!!! Arreola is on the right track rather you hate him or like him he still has a real chance in becoming a HW champion!
Yes, at the moment US has no top Heavyweights although I think with Arreola down to 236 he could possibly work his way back up the ranks, although the slight lose in power he seems in overall better condition and shape. Hopefully we can see another US heavyweight at the top.
Theres no top US heavyweights at the moment. Every time Chambers, Arreola or Thompson step up to world level they lose. Jonathon banks, seth mitchell and deonay wilder etc will go the same way. Something needs to be done to get top athletes interested in heavyweight boxing again as Americans cant athletically compete with european heavyweights at the moment and the only ones who get into proper shape are the ones who are too old to make a dint in the division (i.e Holyfield, briggs, rahman, mccall etc)
lol just lol this is the best that we got at heavy so sad and now tony has another shot at a title for fighting a chump lol