That had to be one of the most one sided fights I’ve seen in a while especially considering Wright is the one who has made a habbit of dominating good fighters in big fights (ie Mosley I, Wright). Williams is certainly the real deal and no one is safe from him from 147-160lbs. That’s not to say I’d pick him over Abraham or Pavlik (because I wouldn’t) but he certainly is one of the top contenders at 160lbs as well now. The other contenders at 160 like Mundine and Gevor I think he’d have an excellent chance at beating. His workrate is simply unreal considering he throws as many hard shots as he does.
The fight really was a bad matchup stylistically for Wright but the man deserves credit for a) staying in there and taking his beating like the man that he is and b) taking on Williams in the first place. I still think there’s guys out there that Wright could beat but he might have a hard time getting them in the ring because his draw power will have dropped from yesterday. That’s not saying he fought a bad fight or anything but the facts are that he was never that popular to begin with and a loss like that will make it harder for him to get back in the upper echelon of boxing.
As for Williams, he has to be in the top five pound for pound now. I mean he’s come up from 147lbs and beaten Wright a hell of a lot more easier then Bernard Hopkins did and Hopkins is a fucking light heavyweight. I still think he’s a little open at times and thats where someone like Pavlik or Abraham could capitalise on him and catch him. We’re not sure yet how he takes a solid punch at 160lbs and there’s two of the biggest punchers in the sport pound for pound in this division in Pavlik and Abraham. I think if he fought either of them he’d probably have his chin tested at some point and it’d probably fail as most chins do when Pavlik or Abraham hit them. Then again, he might just be too fast and busy for them and bust them up.
As for the undercard, I’m thrilled to have some new blood in the division. When we had that first part of this mediocre period post Lewis, I’ve been waiting for some new guys to KO the Chris Byrd’s, John Ruiz’s and Jameel McCline’s of the division. Povetkin announced his arrival with the beatdown of Byrd and Arreola did it yesterday by dominating McCline. McCline took Byrd to a close decision, he took Peter to a close decision, he went 10 rounds with Wladimir Klitschko. For all his short comings, the guy could hang around and was a solid opponent for some of these top contenders and Arreola took him out like the trash that he is which is what we want to see from the young contenders.
As for whether or not he’d beat the Klitschko’s….. I dunno. Vitali I think couldn’t tailor an opponent better then Arreola. He’ll stand in front of Vitali, his defence isn’t particularly good and despite his power, he doesn’t have enough to dent Vitali’s chin. I give him a solid punchers chance against Wladimir though. The thing I like about Arreola is that he’s prepared to throw his punches, force the action and fight at a pace which could work well against Wladimir who tends to panic under fire. Whether or not he’d fight that way when taking Wladimir’s jab is a different story, but if he landed some of the shots that he landed on McCline he’d put Wlad on his arse pretty quick.
