Who is The Next American Hopeful?

Image: Who is The Next American Hopeful?By Simon Hirst: America used to be the place where great champions were born. You would have to beat America’s finest if you could to prove yourself and be considered for greatness. America was the place where people would dream of going to fight the best. Madison Square Garden, Las Vegas, you name it, it was a dream for all boxers, American or not.

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Arreola-Walker and Williams-Phillips on Saturday

Image: Arreola-Walker and Williams-Phillips on SaturdayBy Tim Williams: This Saturday an exciting heavyweight showdown will take place between two of the most powerful heavyweights in the U.S when Chris Arreola (25-0, 22 KOs) takes on Travis Walker (28-1-1, 22 KOs) in a 12-round International Boxing Federation (IBF) title eliminator bout at the Citizens Business Bank Arena, in Ontario, California.

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Arreola, Walker, O’Conner – Boxing News

Los Angeles, CA (November 24, 2008) – On Saturday, November 29, undefeated Cristobal “The Nightmare” Arreola will be taking what he hopes is another step toward a World Heavyweight Championship, when he defends his WBC Continental Americas title against Travis “Freight Train” Walker on the first-ever professional boxing card to be held at the new state-of-the-art Citizens Business Bank Arenain Ontario, California.

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Raul Marquez: “I’m going to shock the boxing world,” Arreola, Harris, Narvaez, Wright, Abraham, More – Latest Boxing News

HOBOKEN, N.J. (October 27, 2008) – International Boxing Federation top contender and mandatory challenger, former U.S. Olympian and IBF light middleweight title-holder Raul “El Diamente” Marquez, says he will shock the boxing world November 8 when he fights unbeaten IBF middleweight champion “King” Arthur Abraham at Jako Arena in Bamberg, Germany.

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Latest Boxing News: Duddy, Williams, Arreola, Walker, Phillips, Quillin, Wolok, O’Connor, More

Los Angeles, CA (October 22, 2008) – Promoter Dan Goossen has been in a quandary for some time. Blessed with extremely talented boxers and whom many believe to be champions that will elevate the sport to much greater heights, WBO Welterweight Champion Paul “The Punisher” Williams and history-making heavyweight contender and WBC Continental Americas Champion Cristobal “The Nightmare” Arreola have their world-class challengers. At Last!

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Arreola vs. Walker on November 29th

arreola46433.jpgBy Jim Dower: In a match-up between easily the two hardest heavyweight punchers in the U.S., undefeated contender Chris Arreola (25-0, 22 KOs) will face 6’4″ Travis Walker (28-1-1, 22 KOs) on November 29th at a yet to be determined location in the United States. Arreola, 27, who is coming off an impressive 3rd round stoppage of Israel Carlos Garcia on September 25th, was rumored previously to have been in the planning stages of a bout with the hard-punching David Tua. However, it looks as if nothing has come of that, leaving Arreola looking in another direction.

It’s a credit to him that he’s willing to face a puncher as dangerous as Walker, who although somewhat raw and unpolished as a fighter, arguably punches as hard as any heavyweight in the division, including heavyweight champions Samuel Peter and Wladimir Klitschko. What Walker doesn’t have that those fighters do, is solid defense and good boxing skills. He makes no bones about what he’s going to do in the ring, namely go right after his opponent and try to take him out as fast as he can with power shots to the head. Walker doesn’t waste much time on throwing body shots, instead preferring to go head hunting for knockouts.

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Latest Boxing News: Arreola Destroys Garcia

arreola435623.jpgBy Sean McDaniel: Undefeated American heavyweight contender Chris Arreola (25-0, 22 KOs) defeated an inexperienced and badly over-matched Israel Carlos Garcia (19-2, 11 KOs) in a 3rd round TKO to retain his WBC Continental Americas heavyweight title on Friday night at the Soboba Casino, in San Jacinto, California. Arreola, 27, came into the fight at a career high of 258 pounds, looking flabby around the midsection and fat everywhere else, staggered Garcia with a big left hook in the third and then blasted him out as he backed up to the ropes. Before Garcia, badly hurt, could go down, the referee Lou Moret stopped the bout at 1:11 of the 3rd round giving Arreola the victory.

Easily the best heavyweight contender in America, Arreola pounced on Garcia in the first round, hitting him with hard combinations and big left uppercuts to the head. Arreola missed a lot of his punches, though, because of his poor hand speed from having put on so much weight. He had reportedly been close to 280 before starting his training camp and had been forced to take off a considerable amount of weight for the fight, although he clearly had a bit of a ways still to go judging from all the fat on his huge 6’4″ frame.

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Is Tua Next For Arreola?

arreola4424.jpgBy Manuel Perez: After watching #7th ranked WBC heavyweight champion Chris Arreola (24-0, 21 KOs) make easy work of unbeaten heavyweight prospect Chazz Witherspoon, stopping him in the 3rd round after the referee disqualified him due to his corner help entering the ring while Witherspoon was being given the standing eight count after being knocked down, Arreola moves on towards a possible fight with former heavyweight title challenger for later on this year. Tua, 35, has a fight against a yet to be determined opponent on July 12th, but if he comes out the winner of that fight, which most fully expect him to, this will set up a huge potential fight between the up and coming Arreola and Tua.

Arreola, only 27, has quickly proven himself as one of the best up and coming heavyweights in American, and perhaps in the entire world. He’s got everything you would want from a fighter – good size at 6’4″ 240 lbs, enormous power and a non-stop punching style of fighting, which he uses to batter his opponents into submission. While he doesn’t have true one-punch power or anything resembling that, the fact that he hits hard and constant, evens things out and makes him just as dangerous a puncher than he would be if he did have enormous power. He’s like a big hammer in the ring, one that pounds away at his opponents over and over again without stop.

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Witherspoon-Arreola, Berto-Rodriguez Battle Tomorrow Night

witherspoon3535.jpgBy Jason Kim: HBO’s Boxing After Dark will show two of the best fights this year on Saturday evening with undefeated heavyweight prospects Chris Arreola (23-0, 21 KOs) and Chazz Witherspoon (23-0, 15 KOs) go head to head in an important heavyweight bout for the two young prospects. In the main event, the number #1 and #2 top challengers for the WBC welterweight title Andre Berto (21-0, 18 KOs) and Miguel Angel Rodriguez (29-2, 23 KOs) fight for the now vacant title.

Witherspoon, 26, will be testing his boxing ability against the all out slugging style of Arreola, in a fight of complete opposites. Witherspoon, 6’4″ 226 lbs, is a fighter in the mold of Wladimir Klitschko, whom he sometimes spars with. Witherspoon has shown a tremendous amount of progress in his short four-year boxing career, especially recently with his training with Klitschko. His style of fighting is very technical, consisting of a lot of jabs, left hooks, uppercuts and straight right hands. He’s a rare type of fighter that can do everything well, whether that be fighting at a distance or on the inside. In fact, Witherspoon is even more dangerous on the inside, where he often nails his opponents with big uppercuts, although if you were to put the question to him I’m fairly certain that he’d say that he prefers fighting on the outside where he can utilize his long jab and left hook.

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