Big props to Cris Arreola

[El Kabong]

Agreed Spicoli, Arreola showed everything he had in his arsenal and I think he could have planned forever for this fight and Vitali would still have picked him apart. I was impressed with Arreola's conditioning, he was still throwing good hard punches after the 8th which is the farthest he's ever been in a fight before. Arreola's defense was pretty good, he didn't allow for the usual Vitali combination swat the guard down & right cross...Cris did everything he could have, the style and skillset just put him at a disadvantage, but IMO he did the best since Lennox Lewis or Corrie Sanders vs Vitali.

I think Larry Merchant called the fight very fair even though he was 100% cheering for Arreola, that's impressive seeing how Larry usually just speaks his mind and he's usually dead damn wrong. But in this case he gave Vitali lots of respect and never had any delusions of grandure about Arreola during the fight. Props to Larry for that.

[El Kabong]

By the way FUCK Mark Kriegel! He wrote a scathing article about Cris Arreola and he even mocked Cris getting emotional. It's obvious that asshole knows little about boxing and for him to have no respect for a guy that laid it all out on the line like that it's just uncalled for.

Arreola didn't punch enough to beat Klitschko - Boxing News - FOX Sports on MSN


Like too many reporters they place too much blame on the opponents of the Klitschko's and give the Klitschko's too little respect...."Arreola didn't punch enough"....well it's kind of fucking hard to do that Mr. Kriegel when you're getting slammed by a 6'7 252 pound knockout machine...oh Vitali may look "mechanical and vulnerable" but the only losses on his record are due to injuries and even then Vitali was ahead on both scorecards! Nobody has made Vitali look vulnerable, not Lennox Lewis, not Corrie Sanders, not anyone and those guys blasted him with some heavy shots.

So I say again FUCK MARK KRIEGEL...keep your simpleton ass away from boxing!