Blowout! Arreola Exposes Football Heavyweight Seth Mitchell in One Round Farce
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Indio, CA (September 8th, 2013)– Golden Boy has been overprotecting Seth Mitchell from the get go. A football player converted into professional boxer, Mitchell used his strength to dispose of stiffs who could not box. The only trouble with padded a boxing record with that logic is what if the fighter beating the stiffs, in reality, cannot box?
In an outcome most experts predicted, hard punching Chris Arreola exposed Golden Boy’s overhyped overprotected football player turned boxer Seth Mitchell, dropping him in the first round, then beating him senseless with pinpoint overhand right power shots to the head which left Mitchell helpless along the ropes, prompting referee Jack Reiss to stand in front of Mitchell looking at Arreola to protect Mitchell’s life. It was all over at 2:26 of the first round. One had to wonder what Golden Boy was thinking in overprotecting Mitchell all along, knowing he could not box, and kidding themselves by putting Mitchell in with Arreola. The September 7, 2013, main event at Fantasy Springs Casino, in Indio, California, was perhaps the worst blowout of the year. Mitchell needed a football helmet to protect himself, because he cannot box. Period.
Heavyweight Blowout! Chris Arreola KO 1 Seth Mitchell on YouTube, September 7, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjmGBvX71V8
Previously, Seth Mitchell was exposed as limited in his first bout with Johnathon Banks as being unable to either hold or take a punch in a lopsided round and a half. Mitchell somehow magically and mysteriously improved well enough to win a 12 round rematch several months later with Banks in a rematch bout which never looked legit or ‘on the level’ to boxing experts. Banks, a trainer of the Klitschkos, exposed Mitchell when he was provided the opportunity to do so. Letting Mitchell win a rematch only led Mitchell into a false confidence and actually believe he was a legitimate boxer, which never was the case.
“I got caught. I’m very disappointed. My heart hurts right now. I’ve got to go back to the drawing board,” said Mitchell after the bout, but it was far worse than that. Arreola, supposedly in a ‘do or die fight’, felt Mitchell out quickly like an experienced Archie Moore in 30 seconds, and knew right away Mitchell could neither box nor take a punch from a world class fighter. Arreola, now 36-3, 31 knockouts, Escondido, California, went into his ‘nightmare’ mode, getting Mitchell out of there, and not prolonging his brief but brutal torture of the ‘opponent’ and the telecast’s agony for very long.
Mitchell, in reality, has no drawing board to retreat to. He was never in the house with Arreola, a world class fighter, and Mitchell never will be in the house with a fighter on that level. Further attempts by Golden Boy to make a fighter out of Mitchell would be foolish.
Mitchell is not a boxer, and cannot fight, and should not be in the ring at all. Golden Boy’s experiment to turn a football player into a boxer was not a good one. Ed ‘Too Tall’ Jones, Mark Gastineau, and Tye ‘Big Sky’ Fields had more of a heart as fighters than Mitchell did. For Mitchell to quote his heart makes no sense, because what Mitchell is trying to do but in reality cannot do is in reality hurting the fans and the sport of professional boxing. Mitchell, now 26-2, 19 knockouts, Brandywine, Maryland, is better off quitting now and leaving boxing forever, and stop trying to pass himself off as a legitimate boxer because he clearly is not never was and never will be one. The fraud has been exposed as a farce.
If Oscar De La Hoya and Golden Boy Promotions still do not get the message in the case of Seth Mitchell, here is a follow up proposal which is sure to seal the deal. Have Mitchell fight his next bout against 6-14-7 Las Vegas heavyweight Alvaro Morales, who has no knockouts but was still good enough to fight a draw with Mitchell in March 2008. Then have Mitchell fight Joey Abell, Fres Oquendo, Odlanier Solis, Evander Holyfield, and then Monte Barrett (whose record includes a first round knockout of ex-football player Tye Fields). Then have Mitchell fight Tony Thompson, Vyacheslav Glazkov, Magomed Abdulsalamov, Malik Scott, and then Dereck Chisora. Next have Mitchell fight then Tomas Adamek, and then Bermane Stiverne, fighters who have both decisioned Chris Arreola. If Seth Mitchell can win these fights, and then defeat David Price, David Haye, Tyson Fury, Robert Helenius and Alexander Povetkin, Golden Boy can put Seth Mitchell in world title bouts with the Klitschkos, and if you believe this could ever happen, dream on, folks.
Result: Chris Arreola KO 1 Seth Mitchell (2:26)
Arreola Wins the WBC International and WBO NABO Heavyweight titles
Referee: Jack Reiss
Nominated for the television and internet ‘2013 Worst Heavyweight Fight of the Year’
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