Chris Arreola Is Not Focused on Improving Heavyweight Status

Chris "Nightmare" Arreola can still slug with the best heavyweights, sometimes.

You will fall asleep watching him now.

That wasn't the case early in his career.

When I watched him on ESPN's Friday Night Fights, I thought I was watching a sumo boxing match.

His opponent, Manny Quezada, didn't put up much of a challenge.

However, Bleacher Report writer, Colin Linneweber, predicted it would be a short night for Quezada.

He said that Arreola will knock Quezada out in three rounds.

That goes to show you what he knew what would happen and what actually didn't happen.

The fight went the full 12 rounds with Arreola easily winning.

I don't predict what round one fighter will knock another out.

We know now that Arreola likes to fight an opponent who isn't mobile.

There was a 25 percent chance that Quezada would win, if only he used his 37-pound disadvantage to move around the ring.

He tangled with Arreola, who weighed 265 pounds.

In the last two years, Arreola fought someone bigger and someone lighter.

Before his match against a heavier Vladimir Klitschko, Arreola was untouchable, despite remaining in the top-10 among heavyweights.

He was no match for Klitschko at all.

Arreola must have underestimated Tomasz Adamek because his training reflected it.

His trainer didn't understand why he took days, if not weeks, off from his training schedule.

I guess Arreola's mind and heart wasn't into training.

That's part of the reason why he lost to Adamek.

Adamek, who was lighter, didn't stand in one place for Arreola.

Back to Linneweber for a minute.

If you were a betting man, Pete Rose's boxing line would've been better than yours.

Leave it up to "Charlie Hustle," who knows something about betting, since he's a big Arreola fan and was at the fight in Ontario, CA.

Boxing analyst, Teddy Atlas, said Arreola should've used his uppercut more, since that was the most effective punch.

Arreola finally heard that bug in his ear, probably from Atlas, because he dropped Quezada twice inn the ninth round.

Another knockdown by Arreola in the 12th round didn't come close to a knockout.

Late in the fight, Arreola injured his right hand, according to the boxing commentators, but he said it was his left hand.

Who knows?

What I do know is if Arreola doesn't get himself in better shape, his career will continue to spiral.