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I'll start with the HBO Card.
-It wasn't televised but Chris Arreola showed up at 236 again, good for him. The two accounts I've read describe him completely dominating tough guy Friday Ahuanya. Probably a good thing for Arreola to go ten rounds. I really do think he might be as viable an opponent for Wlad as there is right now. Now here's to hoping he stays busy. How about getting on the Vitali-Adamek undercard somehow?
Hold-up a minute. I think you're being a little inconsistent here.

You've spent weeks shitting all over David Haye, yet here you are praising a fighter for a) actually trying to get fit and b) going 10 rounds with a "tough guy." You class certain "world" champions as "journymen," right? Ahuanya, who has never beaten a fighter of note, and is clearly not close to the top ten heavyweights let alone a potential world champion, is a "tough" fighter?

Your view is the complete opposite of which Arreola himself has stated. Which highlights just how unreliable it is to form an opinion about something we haven't actually WITNESSED.

Arreola said about his performance (paraphrasing) - I was shit. I was hurt. I am not ready for Wlad. I need more fights.
Inconsistent in what way exactly? 13 deserves every ounce of vitriol everyone has hurled at him. ALL of it. When Arreola was weighing in at 250 plus NOBODY was harder on him than me. I try to recognize improvements. 13 didn't show any. Ahunaya IS a tough guy. That is a completely different thing that categorizing someone as a journeyman or a champion. Tough guy is a personal characteristic, not a level of accomplishment. For example, Glenn Johnson, Tex Cobb and Joe Grim are/were all tough guys. But one was a contender, one a journeyman and the third a tomato can with an iron jaw. See how that works?

Lastly my view and Arreola's are NOT in opposition. I stated Arreola DOMINATED him. He obviously did. Arreolas wasn't pleased with his performance. He obviously wasn't. Those two are NOT mutually exclusive or even opposites. See how that works?