By Brent Matteo Alderson

After learning that David Haye pulled out of his June 20th fight with Wladimir Klitschko, Chris Arreola’s trainer Henry Ramirez commented, “He talked so much sh-t about Klitschko to get the fight and trashed my guy along the way. He talked his way into a heavyweight title fight that he sure didn’t earn it in the ring.  And then he pulls out for whatever reason. I guess he got a yeast infection!”   

Ramirez also noted that Arreola wouldn’t take a title fight on short notice and commented, “Everybody is calling out Klitschko and he’s out there calling out my guy.” Arreola recently started working with strength and conditioning coach Darrell Hudson and Ramirez is happy with the progress, “Darrell really knows his stuff.  Everything that we are doing is geared towards boxing.”

When asked what weight he thinks Arreola would fight at following Hudson’s daily training regimen Ramirez stated, “I don’t care if Chris weighs 245, if he keeps working out with Darrel [Hudson] in the mornings he’ll be in awesome shape.”

Notes:

Favorite Quote: - Charles Burley is almost universally recognized as the greatest fighter to never win a world title.  He beat heavyweights despite weighing around 150 pounds and defeated three men that later became champions. The legendary trainer Eddie Futch always said that Charles Burley was “the finest all around fighter that I ever saw” and Archie Moore commented that Burley was as “slick as lard and twice as greasy.”

Can you believe that Devin Vargas was the best amateur heavyweight in the United States in 2004? 

They should match Kermit Cintron with Andre Berto.  Both guys probably won’t be getting a fight with Cotto, Mosley, or Mayweather anytime soon and a victory would put the winner right up there with that elite group.

Floyd Mayweather is a small welterweight.  He is to welterweight what Sugar Ray Leonard was to middleweight.    

You know what’s crazy about Michael Spinks being the only real light-heavyweight champion to move up to win the linear heavyweight title? Its that he didn’t have trouble making 175 pounds.  Seven months before his fight with Larry Holmes he only weighed 170 ½ pounds for a title bout. 

Roy Jones and Michael Moorer were both light-heavyweight champions that became heavyweight champions, but Jones won a paper title at Heavy and Moorer was the WBO 175 pound champ when the title was about as respected as Bobby Czyz’s WBU Super-Cruiserweight title (205) was in 1995.

Brent Matteo Alderson, a graduate of UCLA, has been part of the staff at BoxingScene.com since 2004. Alderson's published work has appeared in publications such as Ring Magazine, KO, World Boxing, Boxing 2008, and Latin Boxing Magazine. Alderson has also been featured on the ESPN Classic television program “Who’s Number One?”  Please e-mail any comments to BoxingAficionado@aol.com