Chris Arreola

Chris Arreola
Chris Arreola
Data
Birth Name	Cristobal Arreola
Fight name	The Nightmare
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	March 5th 1981
place of birth	los Angeles
style	Left delivery
size	1.93 m
Range	1.96 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	46
Victories	38
Knockout victories	33
Defeats	5
draw	1
No value	1
Profile in the BoxRec database

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 started boxing when he was eight years old. By the age of sixteen he had already completed 200 amateur boxing matches, but lost interest in the sport and ended his amateur career. In 2001, when he turned twenty, he returned to boxing, and after just three months of training, he won the prestigious American " Golden Gloves " amateur light heavyweight tournament . He beat Dallas Vargas, the brother of 2004 Olympian (in the 91 kg class) Devin Vargas . After taking a break for another two years, he tried again in 2003 to take part in the Golden Gloves, but missed the registration deadline for the tournament. Then he made the decision to become a professional.

Professional career

Arreola turned professional in the heavyweight division in 2003 under the name The Nightmare . Looking back, he said, "I didn't know I was going to have a boxing career. I wasn't sure if I should be a pro, and when I did I took it easy at first. But then I started targeting my opponents Knock out and thought, 'Hey, maybe I can make some money with this'. "

Little attention was paid to him at the beginning of his career, as he boxed mostly obscure, unknown opponents. Although he comes from the lower amateur classes, he weighed around 110 kg, so is now a full-grown heavyweight. He trained in California with Wladimir Klitschko , Hasim Rahman and James Toney , among others , who praised him. Only in 2006 did his opponents become a bit more demanding; so he defeated the Cuban Damian Norris and Sedrick Fields, who had defeated Shannon Briggs in 2000 , each prematurely.

In November 2006 he became the center of attention when he knocked out his Californian rival, Damian Wills (then 21-0-1, # 39 in the IWBR ranking), who was also undefeated at the time. For this fight he reduced his weight to 104 kg and looked more fit. Latinoboxers are considered particularly marketable in the USA and are extremely rare in the heavyweight division.

In September 2007 Arreola managed a knockout victory against the American Thomas Hayes, who had only lost at this point. In 2008 he defeated Cliff Couser and the then undefeated Chazz Witherspoon . Arreola succeeded in this fight in the third round practically with a knockdown at the end of the round. Before the referee could release the fight after counting the opponent, a second Witherspoon entered the ring. Witherspoon was then disqualified by the referee, because according to the rules only the two boxers and the referee can be in the ring during a round.

On November 29, 2008, he fought in Ontario against Travis Walker , who boxed out Arreola in the first round and sent him to the ground for the first time in his career in the second round. Arreola recovered quickly and was able to turn the fight by knocking Walker to the ground twice in the same round. At the beginning of the third round, Arreola managed to knock down again and the referee ended the fight. Arreola won by TKO.

At the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas he fought on April 11, 2009 against the 39-year-old veteran Jameel McCline and knocked him out in the fourth round. Mccline entered the ring weighing over 150 pounds and was knocked down by Arreola after a combination that consisted of an uppercut and a right cross . After the knockdown, McCline made little effort to get up before the referee counted on ten. After the British ex- cruiserweight world champion David Haye had canceled a fight against WBC world champion Vitali Klitschko , Arreola got the chance on September 26, 2009 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles to fight for the WBC world title against Klitschko. In the fight Arreola only rarely managed to score significant hits, but for his part he had to take many heavy hits, so that the referee broke off the duel in favor of Klitschko after the end of the tenth round due to the one-sided course of the fight. Two months after losing to Klitschko, Chris Arreola played his next fight against Brian Minto in Atlantic City . Minto went down for the first time in the first half of round four and was counted. Shortly before the end of the round, Minto went down for the second time. This time the referee stopped the fight because Minto was unable to continue fighting.

Then Arreola boxed on April 24, 2010 in the southern Californian city of Ontario against Tomasz Adamek , Poland, who was promoted from cruiserweight in 2009 . The approximately 15 kg lighter and therefore much more agile Adamek used this advantage and was able to defeat Arreola on points over twelve laps. In 2011 Arreola then completed several development fights against opponents who were significantly lower in the ranking and was able to record six wins for themselves.

On May 10, 2014 Arreola competed against Bermane Stiverne to fight for the WBC world heavyweight title, which he lost in the sixth round by knockout.

On July 16, 2016, Arreola took on Deontay Wilder to fight for the WBC world heavyweight title. He lost by giving up in the eighth round.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chris Arreola - the new Tyson? spox.com, April 12, 2009
2. ↑ Chris Arreola loses WBC title fight against Bermane Stiverne sport-90.de, May 11, 2014

Web links

• Chris Arreola in the BoxRec database