News - Chris Arreola

“Good thing it’s not raining more. Although I could show everybody my newly acquired during training camp in Houston experience in long distance swimming,” said Tomasz Adamek (40-1, 28 KOs), when he and Chris Arreola (28-1, 25 KOs) arrived for a scheduled open workout in downtown Los Angeles. Instead of putting on gloves and trying NOT to show media and the other team’s “spies” anything they actually want to do this coming Saturday in Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario read more ...

LAS VEGAS, NEV. - Top Rank, Inc., boxing’s premiere promotional company, will officially unveil its original webcast series, TRLivestream, at 3 PM EST/12 PM PST on Friday, April 16, with a live broadcast from Atlantic City, N.J., of the weigh-ins for the Kelly Pavlik-Sergio Martinez championship bout read more ...

BoxingScene.com spoke to heavweight contender Cedric Boswell (31-1) about a possible fight with Shannon Briggs (48-5). Boswell loves the idea. «I would love to fight Shannon Briggs again. He has unfinished business with me. I beat him in the amateurs and I will beat him again read more ...

According to reports in Germany, heavyweight Brian Minto (34-3, 21KOs) will be moving down to cruiserweight to challenge Marco Huck (28-1, 21KOs) for the WBO title on May at the EWE Arena in Oldenburg, Germany. The fight will be promoted as a revenge bout with Huck trying to avenge the honor of Axel Schulz, who Minto stopped in 2006 read more ...

Arreola: “I’m sure Adamek will come prepared to beat me, but it’s not gonna happen. A win over Adamek would get me a step closer to fighting for a world title again, which I am looking forward to doing in 2010. But first, April 24th. I think I will have to be 240 pounds, 245 max, because I don’t believe he will want to exchange punches with me and it looks like I will have to chase him around the ring read more ...

Expects a lot of fireworks on April 24. BoxingScene.com was advised that Chris Arreola (28-1, 25KOs) vs. Tomasz Adamek (40-1, 27KOs) is close to a done deal. HBO will carry the fight with junior middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo taking on Joel Julio in the televised opener. A source close to the negotiations advised BoxinScene to expect an official press conference as early as this coming Friday in Los Angeles, California read more ...

BoxingScene.com previously reported that two-division champion Tomasz "Goral" Adamek (39-1) is in talks to face one of the best American heavyweights in Chris "The Nightmare" Arreola (28-1), on April 24 on HBO. Adamek took the time to discuss the potential fight read more ...

Tomasz Adamek's manager and long time advisor Ziggy Rozalski recieved a call from HBO's Kerry Davis with an offer for his fighter to face Chris Arreola in California on April 24th. The former light heavyweight and cruiserweight champion from Poland has yet to face Jason Estrada on February 6th in Newark but Adamek is sure that the former American Olympian will become another stepping stone in his heavyweight journey read more ...

Promoter Dan Goossen had to play referee on Saturday night when his two heavyweights, Chris Arreola and Tony Thompson, began to exchange verbal punches during the post-fight press conference to Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez. Arreola stopped Brian Minto in the HBO televised co-feature. Thompson appeared on the undercard and stopped Chazz Witherspoon. BoxingScene.com's Bill Emes caught all of the drama as it unfolded read more ...

In a war, two-division world champion Paul Williams (38-1, 27 KOs) won a twelve round majority decision over WBC interim super middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (44-2-2, 24 KOs) in a non-title middleweight bout on Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Both fighters were down in round one. Martinez’ trip to the deck was of the flash variety, while Williams went down hard. Martinez dominated rounds two and three read more ...