Put Up or Bust: Seth Mitchell Versus Chris Arreola Will Be Mitchell’s Nightmare
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Indio, CA (September 6th, 2013)– Just a short piece and prediction here. It’s put up or shut up time for heavyweight Seth Mitchell, a football player nice guy who cannot fight. Mitchell sure looked bad in his first bout with Johnathon Banks, who knocked him down and stopped him in two. The 12 round rematch sure did not look on the level when you consider the difference in boxing ability between Banks (who trains the Klitschko brothers) and Mitchell (a Golden Boy darling).
Chris ‘Nightmare’ Arreola is a 1940’s and 195’s brawler style throwback to Joey Maxim and Marcel Cerdan, and he hits like a mack truck. It should not take more than four or five rounds for Arreola, 35-3 with 30 knockouts, Escondido, California, to put caution in the wind and get Mitchell, 26-1-1 with 19 knockouts, Brandywine, Maryland, out of there. Arreola is a hard hitter, but not a profoundly technical boxer. He’ll pick apart and take out any pretender who cannot fight, and Mitchell fits the bill perfectly. He’s tailor made for Arreola.
Mitchell is a slugger with those who stand in front of him, but so wasn’t Ernie Shavers, who also could not box against a seasoned opponent who could fight. Arreola will not be kind to Mitchell, and the end of this bout will not be pretty. Mitchell’s basic problem is he cannot take a serious punch or punch attack from a top flight professional boxer. Better to have Mitchell lose in a massacre here than to throw him to the wolves (the Klitschkos).
Prediction: Arreola by knockout in four to six rounds in the main event of a nine bout card taking place at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California, on September 7, 2013. The aging 38 year old Rafael Marquez, the former IBF Bantamweight champion from Mexico City, who has not held a world title in six years, will lose a close but unanimous decision to 30 year old Californian Efrain Esquivias in the preliminary bout to the main event, in what should prove to be the fiftieth and final bout of Marquez’ career. Rico Ramos, a featherweight who’s beaten Esquivias, will fight a ten rounder with 15-0 Puerto Rican Olympian Carlos Ivan Velasquez on the undercard, in a featherweight bout which could go either way. Velasquez by unanimous decision.
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