Chris Arreola promoter Dan Goossen shed light on fighter’s disappointing performance last Friday (August 13) by revealing he injured both his hands against Manuel Quezada.
Arreola was the headliner for last week’s ESPN’s Friday Night Fights broadcast. Despite dropping Quezada three times in route to a unanimous decision, Arreola was plodding and sloppy throughout the fight. Additionally, the Mexican contender was caught with many clean shots from the limited and slow Quezada in what was supposed to be a showcase fight for Arreola.
His promoter Dan Goossen disclosed that Arreola broke his left hand in the second round. His right hand suffered tendon damage later in the fight. The latter injury will likely require surgery and possibly keep Arreola out of the ring for the remainder of 2010.
“We had Chris at the doctors on Saturday, and we expect a full report later on today and a confirmation of everything,” Goossen explained to Boxing Scene. “But it appears that he broke his left hand as he said he did in the second round, and so he fought with a broken hand. Chris also apparently suffered tendon damage in his right hand, which will necessitate surgery on that also…I don’t know how long he’ll be out until he goes to the specialist today.”
Chris Arreola suffered a right hand injury in his April fight against Tomasz Adamek. No surgery was done following that contest.
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Chris Arreola hasn’t been dedicated in the gym, but you can’t say the man isn’t tough. Hand injuries are painful and he fought through two of them without letting on he was even injured.
The right hand in particular concerns me. That’s the same hand that caused him to hunch over in pain against Tomasz Adamek in April. There’s a possibility there may be some long-standing damage from waiting so long to have surgery on it. Arreola tends to get wild with his shots so I wonder if the injuries could have anything to do with him not punching correctly. Or, it’s possible his hands are not being wrapped good enough.
Hopefully neither injury is extensive. Chris needs to get in one more fight before 2011. With his weight increasing to 256 for last week’s fight as opposed to 250 in April, the only shot to keep his weight down is constant training and monitoring.
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Chris Arreola !
Chris be careful he strong educated and you go TKO or Ko concentration : face to face do never look down and fighting on distance when close fight to the chin and protect your chin he will demolate your chin and face concentration and away from the ropes there is no air you lose the fights fight to stay in the middle of the ring and concentration to see the fists coming to block and fighting against the fists and underarms face to face hard and fast you need to be to survive all the best for the fights and do body building to get the weight you got air in the body all or nothing do not give up and protect your chin and face !
Chris Arreola !
Chris be careful he strong educated and you go TKO or Ko concentration : face to face do never look down and fighting on distance when close fight to the chin and protect your chin he will demolate your chin and face concentration and away from the ropes there is no air you lose the fights fight to stay in the middle of the ring and concentration to see the fists coming to block and fighting against the fists and underarms face to face hard and fast you need to be to survive all the best for the fights and do body building to get the weight you got air in the body all or nothing do not give up and protect your chin and face ! 81 times chest high left and right and the same shoulder high and like against the chin over the head ; 21 times to get the rhythm all the best !