Mark E. Ortega
FightFanNation.com
April 24, 2010
Saturday night from the Citizens Bank
Arena in Ontario, California, Tomasz Adamek [41-1, 27 KOs] won an
impressive twelve-round majority decision over local hero Chris
Arreola [28-2, 25 KOs] in front of a large crowd in the televised
headliner of HBO's Boxing After Dark. Arreola started off quickly and
for the first four or five rounds it was a firefight that favored the
more than thirty pounds heavier fighter. Somewhere in the fifth
round, Arreola hurt his left hand and the fight changed as Adamek
began to outbox Arreola and move around the ring extremely well.
Arreola would land a few big shots in nearly every round but Adamek
was landing much more accurately. Adamek's body work in the middle
rounds helped slow Arreola down and he enjoyed a surge in the eighth
and ninth round. Arreola seized momentum in the tenth and eleventh
but Adamek took the twelfth to earn the tight majority decision. One
judge had it 114-114 even but was overruled by the 115-113 and a much
too wide 117-111 in favor of Adamek.