Could this be the next Mexican-American Heavyweight champ?

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By Robert Morales
Special to CBSSports.com



Ever since Chris Arreola beat the daylights out of Chazz Witherspoon on June 21 in Memphis, there has been a burning question in the mind of yours truly: When was the last time we saw a heavyweight stay as busy as Arreola?

I can't remember.

Arreola doesn't just throw a lot of punches. They are all with bad intentions. There are no soft ones just to keep active. He unleashes scores of mean punches, period. We're talking almost nonstop punching action, and that is very rare with the big boys.

Chris Arreola has the multiple-punch mentality of lighter boxers. (Getty Images)
Obviously, heavyweights have never thrown as many punches as those in the smaller weights. But Arreola tries real hard to do just that.

Witherspoon was disqualified when his corner came into the ring too soon at the end of the third round after he had been dropped. But Witherspoon had taken a savage beating in that round. It's doubtful he expected to be blanketed with the type of assault Arreola put on him.

Arreola and his promoter, Dan Goossen, played host to a media luncheon Tuesday at a Mexican restaurant in Sherman Oaks, Calif., just outside Los Angeles. We couldn't make the gig because of another assignment, but we got Goossen on the phone later in the evening.

The topics of discussion ranged from Goossen's impression of his top-10 heavyweight, as well as the future of the 27-year-old Arreola. Goossen said he was not surprised at the way Arreola took apart a fellow undefeated fighter like Witherspoon. But apparently some might have been.


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