Klitschko Dominates Arreola
Vitali Klitschko put on a great boxing exhibition as he punished a courageous Chris Arreola until the referee decided to stop the fight after the end of the 10th round.
Vitali Klitschko showed everyone once again why he is such a dominant heavyweight force. He has very under-rated skills but he utilises his height and reach superbly.
Throughout the fight he landed his hard left jab on an ever advancing Chris Arreola. He mixed in solid looking body shots and some smashing right hands and Arreola showed an excellent chin and admirable bravery to grimly advance forwards.
Despite Vitali's dominance I think that Chris Arreola has come out of this fight with nothing but respect. He would never quit and he always looked like he believed he could land that big shot that may turn around the fight. Unfortunately the referee thought otherwise but I think it was a compassionate decision by the ref since Chris was only going to walk into further punishment.
Chris never looked like going down but with 2 rounds to go Vitali was starting to look like he may fancy stopping the contest inside the distance, as he landed some crunching blows during the 9th and 10th rounds.
The punch stats had Vitali landing an amazing 301 of 802 with Arreola just 86 of 331. On my card I had Klitschko winning all rounds apart from the 4th, when Arreola really pressed hard and landed a couple of good shots.
At 28 years of age Arreola can come again and if Klitshcko, at the age of 38 retires in the next couple of years then maybe Chris will have another chance at the heavyweight crown.