By Jason Kim: Heavyweight contender Chris Arreola (30-2, 26 KO’s) will continue with his slow climb back up the heavyweight rankings with a 10 round bout against recently beaten Nagy Aguilera (16-5, 11 KO’s) on May 14th on the undercard of the Super Six tournament fight between Andre Ward vs. Arthur Abraham at the Home Depot Center, in Carson, California. This isn’t exactly the ideal opponent for the 30-year-old Arreola, because Aguilera was just beaten by a chunky looking 42-year-old Antonio Tarver last October in 2010 in a one-sided 10 round decision loss.

It might be hard to get motivated fighting a guy that was just dominated by the aging Tarver. But it tells you how far Arreola has slipped since he lost to WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko by a 10th round TKO in September 2009. Arreola briefly righted the course in his career after that fight by beating Brian Minto. However, Arreola then lost his next fight to Tomasz Adamek by a 12 round decision in April 2010.

That loss really hurt Arreola because that was a fight he needed to win to show that he’s someone that is worthy of another title shot. Arreola had the power and the size advantage over Adamek, but he ended up injuring his left hand and running out of gas late. Arreola has since won his last two fights against B level fighters Manuel Quezada and Joey Abell. But Arreola needs to start showing signs that he’s getting better instead of staying at the same level fighting 2nd tier guys. In his last fight, Arreola destroyed Abell in one round.

That was a good fight for Arreola because he showed better speed and was a lot more aggressive than he had been in a long time. Arreola needs to pounce on Aguilera early in the same way to make impression on boxing fans. Aguilera, 6’3″, has a 1st round knockout win over Oleg Maskaev in December 2009. However, things haven’t been good for him since then, losing to Samuel Peter, Maurice Harris and most recently Tarver.