With all the Golota talk, what about Sosnowski - Adamek?

lol sosnowski is a 6/10 fighter, not particularly big so yeah a big of speed but still tends to plod along quite a lot

not sure how **** golota has got recently but he'd have to have got even shitter than i thought to be sosnowski level

 

Sosnowski is pretty crap if you ask me. Golota is at least a big name both in Poland and abroad. I have no idea how he draws in Poland, but he's a no name here.

Zuri Lawrence is about 3 levels down from Ray Austin, and Lawrence pretty thoroughly beat Sosnowski. He looked better against Pianeta, but part of that is because Pianeta did very little in their fight.

Taking on Sosnowski doesn't seem to do much to help either his profile or his wallet though. If he's going to fight someone with no name in the US, he might as well go after some of the cruiserweights who are decent draws in Europe, like Arslan or Huck.

 

LOL is right... Sosnowski lost to Zuri Lawrence, who is a border line D level fighter.

 

Zuri is definitely below Austin but I don't know about 3 levels, LOL.

 

Plain & simple...this fight is all about $$$. An Adamek Sosnowski fight would not command the kinda $$$ that they have been offered.

Plus, fighting Golota is ridiculousy exciting for Adameks 1st fight at HW. After this, B Hop in January.

Because HBO wants to make that fight!

 

As long as Golota doesn't disable Adamek.

 

I'm wondering, if Adamek doesn't beat Golota, will B Hop still be there waiting & HBO still hot to trot for that one?

:think

 

Probably not, we will see Adamek - Cunningham II then, in HBO tho.

 

Maybe not 3 levels, but below. Austin had a legitimate draw with Ibragimov, and knocks guys out. Lawrence has zero career KOs, and while he has some skills, he's still something like 4-15-1 against quality opposition.

The bigger point though is that Sosnowski is a nobody. If Adamek wanted to face someone who would work his way up the rankings, he'd take on someone with a higher profile in Sosnowski. It's not as if Sosnowski is even a huge name even with the Polish-American fanbase, and I assume, based on his opposition, that he's not much of a name in Poland either. The point of Adamek moving up is to make money, and fighting Sosnowski doesn't help him there.

 

Anyway, as someone's said, this is good for his first fight at heavyweight, does Golota. And it gets a massive national audience. it'll probably be shown in America on some minor channel or on delay.

Sosnowski might make sense later. We don't know if he was in shape, if he had notice, for Lawrence do we? He looked better knocking out Danny Williams and he deserved to beat Pianeta.

Golota makes sense for money/notoriety.

Sosnowski makes sense for national rivalry - if there's no money in America, there will e in Poland - and is also in the WBC top 20. So it makes sense in building up to a title shot.

HBO will be jittery about coming up with the extra half million that Duva and Golden Boy want in order to make the fight. They can't committ to $3.5m until they have next year's budget planned. A heavyweight fight is a big risk. I don't think HBO will give it thumbs up until after October, and by then Hopkins will likely have looked elsewhere...Reckon Adamek v Golota will be a smash hit, and that they bring Cunningham over to Poland or just fight Wlod instead.

 

Sosnowski is probably as popular in Poland as he is in the U.S. Mariusz Wach might be on the same level, maybe better but it's too early.

 

The guy who knocked out Danny Williams. That was not cool. He is a pretty good fighter though. I would like to see him get a big fight. someone like Rahman, Maskaev, Brewster, or something.