Cristobal Arreola to face Manuel Quezada on August 13
by Scott Christ on Jul 6, 2010 5:52 PM EDT
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Robert Morales reported at BoxingScene.com that Cristobal Arreola and Manuel Quezada will fight on August 13 on Friday Night Fights. It's a big bout between the two Goossen Tutor heavyweights, with a loss taking either out of any sort of title contention for the near future.
Quezada (29-5, 18 KO) hadn't lost a fight since 2005 when he dropped a split decision to Jason Gavern in April. He's a decent puncher and on the right nights, looks like a guy who could give most heavyweights some real trouble, including Arreola. Arreola (28-2, 25 KO) has lost two of his last three, dropping an ugly TKO-10 to Vitali Klitschko and a wide decision to Tomasz Adamek, and between them beating the incredibly game but well overmatched Brian Minto.
The fight is obviously far bigger for Arreola than it is for Quezada. Arreola has a nice fanbase as a Mexican-American heavyweight, and an exciting fighter to boot. He's taken a crack at a major title and lost, and took another big fight in April and lost that one. If he were to lose to Quezada, it will kill his immediate future.
A win, even though Quezada isn't a major player, would push him right back into the big fights probably. There are a number of reasons for this. HBO has shown a willingness to buy his fights, because he's a marketable American heavyweight who actually shows up to fight, no matter what shape he's in or how many people bust on his physical appearance. He's also not going to be seen as a terribly troubling opponent for most of the best heavyweights, either. Honestly, after watching Arreola struggle so mightily (but bravely) with the undersized Adamek, I can't imagine too many good heavyweights worrying about fighting Arreola anymore. In other words, he's good money and a guy that other top guys will assume they should beat.
Of course, if it ever all "clicks" for Arreola, I truly believe he can beat just about anybody out there (not the Klitschkos) on the right night, but that's a whole other story and one not rooted in reality right now.
This should serve as a bounce-back win for Arreola and nothing more, but could also be a barnburner, and frankly, you just never know when a guy whose dedication has been questioned might fall off the cliff, so to speak. Quezada should be expected to show up ready to rumble, and Arreola cannot afford to take anyone lightly at this point.
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Arreola always fights hard….I just wish he had the talent to go further, but……
And I don’t think it has much to do with his conditioning; he’s just reached his ceiling and can’t get past the best guys.
I really think it’s effort (in training) and conditioning. He’s honestly got some real boxing skills, but he dogs it in training (he’d probably say he doesn’t, but come on) and that shows up in fights with his lack of movement and inability to adjust to anything.
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by Scott Christ on Jul 6, 2010 10:49 PM EDT up reply actions
hate to be a dick about this, but arreola only dropped a wide decision to adamek. he was tko’d (in 10 iirc) by vitali, but yeah he obv would have dropped an extremely wide decision to vitali if it had gone the distance
never heard of this quezada dude, but this article has got me pumped. looking forward to it
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by battle axe of doom on Jul 6, 2010 11:31 PM EDT reply actions
POTENTIAL AND CHRIS ARREOLA
Few heavyweights in recent years have had as much potential as Arreola. He can punch and he can take a punch but he has not applied himself to learning the game of boxing nor has he been motivated to train like Marciano or Holyfield. Five round fighters have a hard time beating men who have trained to go 10 or 12 hard rounds. Chris is still young enough to start paying the price by hard training and listening to trainers, to get to the top. Let us hope he starts taking boxing seriously. Some day he will be older and look back and regret not paying the price to get to the top.
I think — and I could be wrong — that Arreola is one of those guys who takes the sport seriously in the sense that he wants to be the best, but doesn’t really get how that happens for a fighter. I mean don’t get me wrong — I think Cristobal Arreola is a hell of a nice guy, a fun fighter to watch, tougher than a two dollar steak, etc. But he and his team play off the criticism he gets as being from “haters,” which is nonsense. It comes mostly from FANS OF HIS disappointed he probably won’t succeed more than he already has because he doesn’t put in the training.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
I have seen some of my friends who are competitive athletes
They have all the drive to get to the top, and huge desire, but don’t really get how they should act to get there. In such a case, it should be the trainer’s job to motivate their fighter, and guide them to work at the right level. Arreola’s trainer evidently isn’t doing this.
"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jul 9, 2010 6:08 AM EDT up reply actions
Arreola’s trainer is his buddy.
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