Chris Arreola looks slimmer

[El Kabong]

Just read the article on the front page about the Ward-Abraham press confrence. Arreola was there too, checking out the picture he's looking slimmer and he still has about a 1 1/2 months to go. It seems like every fight he says that he realizes he needs to take training more serious, yada yada yada. This time he may actually mean it. I don't think he will ever be a elite HW, but do you guys think he can get back somewhat?

Sam Peter went through a fat phase and came out of it a better fighter in better shape and having better conditioning. Arreola is a different story to me, while he does have a chance at coming back, I think he was so fat he's going to lose his chin with the weight and he might lose some of his pop as well. He was an amateur at light heavyweight....and he fought in the pros at the highest level of competition (vs Vitali) at 250 or there abouts. I think Arreola could be a contender again, but I just don't see him being what he was supposed to be.

[rjj tszyu]

Just read the article on the front page about the Ward-Abraham press confrence. Arreola was there too, checking out the picture he's looking slimmer and he still has about a 1 1/2 months to go. It seems like every fight he says that he realizes he needs to take training more serious, yada yada yada. This time he may actually mean it. I don't think he will ever be a elite HW, but do you guys think he can get back somewhat?

Sam Peter went through a fat phase and came out of it a better fighter in better shape and having better conditioning. Arreola is a different story to me, while he does have a chance at coming back, I think he was so fat he's going to lose his chin with the weight and he might lose some of his pop as well. He was an amateur at light heavyweight....and he fought in the pros at the highest level of competition (vs Vitali) at 250 or there abouts. I think Arreola could be a contender again, but I just don't see him being what he was supposed to be.

For me, even if he got into great shape, he would have never lived upto (some of) the hype he was getting. He is too much of a tough guy brawler type to reach the very top IMO. His skills are not polished enough to resort to boxing his way to victory against a Vitali level boxer!

[chinchekked]

Will he go down as an all time great? No! However If he can take his conditioning seriously and train how he should I will give him a chance against anyone on the heavyweight scene. This would give him the conditioning to go along with his heart which IMO is more than enough combined with his size to pick up some sort of belt.

[gramm]

they banned him from the buffet finally.