Chris Arreola
Cristobal Arreola ( born March 5, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American heavyweight boxer of Mexican origin.
Amateur career
Arreola grew up in Los Angeles with his five siblings and began with the boxing when he was eight years old. At sixteen he had already completed 200 amateur boxing, but lost interest in the sport and finished his amateur career. 2001, when he was twenty, he returned to boxing, and after only three months of training, he won the prestigious American " Golden Gloves" amateur tournament in the light heavyweight division. He suggested, among others, Dallas Vargas, the brother of Olympian from 2004 ( in the 91- kg class ) Devin Vargas. After he paused for another two years, he tried in 2003, once again participate in the Golden Gloves, but missed the deadline for registration for the tournament. Then he decided to become a professional.
Professional career
Arreola was established in 2003 in the heavyweight fight under the name of The Nightmare ( nightmare ) professional. Looking back, he said: "I did not think I would make a boxing career I was not sure whether I should be a professional, and when I was there then, I went there first cozy on But then I started my opponents.. knock out, and thought, ' Hey, maybe I can make some money with .' "
It gave him early in his career little attention, since he mainly boxed obscure, unknown building opponents. Although he comes from the lower amateur classes, he weighed about 110 kg, so it is now a full-fledged heavyweight. He trained in California, among others, Wladimir Klitschko, Hasim Rahman and James Toney, who spoke highly of him. Only in 2006, his opponents were building something more challenging; he defeated the Cubans Damian Norris and Sedrick Fields, who defeated Shannon Briggs in 2000, each prematurely.
In November 2006, he came into the limelight when he puts his California rival, at this time also undefeated Damian Wills (then 21-0-1, # 39 of IWBR ranking ), Co suggested. For this fight, he reduced his weight to 104 kg, and had toned. Latino boxers are in the United States as a particularly marketable and are exceedingly rare in the heavyweight division.
In September 2007, Arreola scored a knockout win against the Americans Thomas Hayes, who had lost only once at this time. In 2008, he defeated Cliff Couser and the hitherto unbeaten Chazz Witherspoon. Arreola practically succeeded in this fight in the third round with the round end of a precipitate. Before the referee, however, was able to release the fight after the stall count Gegnerns again entered a Sekundant Witherspoon's the ring. Then Witherspoon was disqualified by the referee, because according to the rules, only the two boxers and the referee allowed during a round are in the ring.
On November 29, 2008, he fought in Ontario against Travis Walker, Arreola ausboxte in the first round and sent him in the second round for the first time in his career to the ground. Arreola caught himself quickly and was able to turn the fight by, struck Walker in the same round twice to the ground. Beginning of the third round Arreola succeeded again a precipitate, and the referee stopped the fight. Arreola won by TKO.
In the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on April 11, 2009 he fought against the 39 -year-old veteran Jameel McCline and knocked him out in the fourth round. McCline came with a weight of over 122 kg in the ring and was knocked down by a combination consisting of an uppercut and a right cross of Arreola. After the precipitate is McCline tried hard to get up before the referee had counted to ten.
After the British ex - cruiserweight champion David Haye had canceled a fight against WBC champion Vitali Klitschko, Arreola got on 26 September 2009 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles the chance to fight for the WBC world title against Klitschko. In the struggle succeeded Arreola rarely to achieve significant results, but for his part he had to put a lot of heavy hits, so that the referee the duel broke off due to the one-sided fight trends, by the end of the tenth round in favor of Klitschko.
Two months after the defeat against Klitschko denied Chris Arreola in Atlantic City against Brian Minto his next fight. Minto went in the first half of the fourth round for the first time to the ground and was down for the count. Shortly before the end of the round Minto then went for the second time to the ground. This time the referee stopped the fight because Minto was not able to continue fighting.
Then boxed Arreola on April 24, 2010 in the Southern California city of Ontario against the 2009 ascended from the cruiserweight Poland Tomasz Adamek. The approximately 15 kg lighter and therefore much more agile Adamek took advantage of this and could Arreola over twelve rounds on points defeat. 2011 graduated Arreola then build several battles against opponents that were significantly lower in the rankings and division had 6 wins for itself.