Re: Vitali Klitschko (37-2) vs. Chris Arreola (27-0) [26-Sep-09] The crowd is starting to get restless in the eighth. Arreola pressing the action hard in response. Klitschko continuing to run and clinch to avoid anything significant landing by Arreola. At least six rounds to two for Klitschko, IMHO.
Re: Vitali Klitschko (37-2) vs. Chris Arreola (27-0) [26-Sep-09] Blood pouring from Arreola's nose. We'll see if Arreola has the gusto to go for broke in the tenth-twelfth rounds, now. If he doesn't change his strategy this fight is well over.
Re: Vitali Klitschko (37-2) vs. Chris Arreola (27-0) [26-Sep-09] Klitschko still has great snap on his punches in the tenth round, but he isn't moving Arreola with them. Arreola shook his head no after a long straight punch from Klitschko; a sure sign he is hurting him.
Re: Vitali Klitschko (37-2) vs. Chris Arreola (27-0) [26-Sep-09] Fight's been stopped heading into the 11th. Maybe Arreola's corner? Arreola is weeping. Klitschko doesn't look like he's been in a fight.
Chris Arreola's corner did throw in the towel. Two more rounds of punishment were not something they wanted to inflict on their fighter. Or perhaps they had a set time limit/insistence on stoppage of the fight for betting purposes? You never know with boxing. In any case Klitschko's KO/TKO record continues to reach amazing heights (now 92.5%, or 37/40).
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/columns/story?columnist=rafael_dan&id=4507521 Arreola had no answers for Klitschko
Arreola :[ He did some good things, but got dominated no doubt about it. Hopefully this doesn't derail his career.
^ Well supposedly he took a week and a half interlude during training to drink and party, or so the HBO broadcast team suggested. Sure he lost weight but it seems he didn't lose stupid.
Hm, never heard that. I bet the papers out here left that out because the paper I get is a Riverside paper. Or maybe I just didn't catch it when I was reading the articles.
Yeah, Lampley or Merchant suggested he spent ten days in party mode during training. It's not unheard of for guys to take a week off in the middle of a long (7-9 week) camp but it usually isn't for that.