Quote Originally Posted by Majesty View Post
Alright.

People are forgetting the fact that Arreola was down in his last fight as well.

Legitimately down with no dispute about a slip or whatever.

Imo it doesnt matter how many times a fighter goes down it matters how many times he gets up and wins.

But Arreola is open for everything. and if it was haye who dropped him in the first round he may not have went to the second.

Of the two fighters Haye has the more chance of ourboxing Arreola. if haye isnt wild swinging and going for the knockout all 3 mins every round then he can cleanly outbox Arreola. I do think its a little unfair how people pick the one moment he Barret fight where he was wild against Arreola I don't think he'd be as wild, and I think he was so wild at those points with BArret because he wasnt worried about his power, against Arreola I think he would box a lot more and not be so wild. Haye CAN sorta box, and he does that a lot better then Arreola who is a slugger, if haye goes toe to toe with Arreola then yes he has a chance of gasing late and being stopped if he can't hurt him. But Haye can also outbox Arreola on his way to a decision, if Haye starts boxing Arreola and counterpunching him well there is little Arreola can do but land one bomb and have Haye ratted long enough to stop him. I don't know why everyone thinks that Haye's strategy against Arreola would be to slug.
The title of the main post was Haye will steamroll Arreola.

When you started with "alright" I thought you were going to give a clean unbiased point of view, but obviously that wasn't the case. You took a whole paragraph to say: Haye can outbox Arreola and win a decision. To be fair, that is a legitimate opinion that I can respect, but outboxing Arreola to a decision is far from steamrolling through him.

Yes, Arreola took a knee against Travis Walker and be fair to him, he showed a lot of composure in doing so. He went on to knocking him out. Travis Walker is a legit heavyweight who is young, fast, and strong and who had never been beat. In other words, he is a live opponent who Arreola beat. So was Chazz Witherspoon. Both of those heavyweights are faster (probably) than Arreola and both of those heavyweights could outbox Arreola. What did Arreola do to them? Stopped them in the third round.

I'm not positive Arreola would beat Haye because I haven't seen enough of Haye at heavyweight to really accurately measure his skill. Like the majority of the posters on this board, I can see Arreola's flaws crystal clear: he isn't in great shape and he tends to maul rather than box, but to be fair to him, so far it has worked well. Haye's main flaw is his chin and being a heavyweight without a chin is dangerous. There are heavyweights who manage quite well without a chin like Vlad, but he has size to compensate for it. I'm not saying Haye wouldn't beat Arreola, but saying he would steamroll through him is baseless antagonistic provocation because he has yet to be tested at heavyweight and cruiserweights were able to hurt him.