What do you think? The best Adamek performance in HW was fight against Arreola. Then Adamek was trained by Ronnie Shields. For me Bloodworth destroyed Adamek. Tomasz was a much better in CW without Bloodworth.
Tomasz size finally caught up to him last night when he fought a normal sized HW with a perfect combination of power and skill and chin. Tomasz was NEVER going to beat this type of HW, who is nearly a clone of himself, except a TRUE and LEGIT HW. Tomasz outwieghed Glaskov by a couple pounds last night, but Czar looked like he was 240lb powerhouse in there. No trainer could have won Adamek that fight. I gave Adamek 4 rds, 1,8,10,11. That was being generous since 1 and 8 were about even.:think
Adamek started looking like **** after the Arreola fight. Dropping his hands, throwing single punches instead of combos... He did get worse under Bloodworth
The size, age and those jabs got to him last night. Glaskav also looked faster than he expected Im sure. Cunningham imo beat him last year but this time a decision couldn't go his way. It was a great 12th round though and to me looked like Adamek really hurt him. If Adamek fought another round the way he fought the 12th he may have even put him down in the fight. He should take an easy fight in Newark and go for a 50th win and celebrate his career. It was a good one.
I couldn't believe the heart Adamek showed in the 12th round. He did almost drop Glazkov! But it was too little too late.
We can say a lot about adamek last fight but I would go deeper. I have no doubts Bloodworth has prepared horrible game plans for adamek since he join his team. All fights that admek won (with bloodworh in corrner) ended succesfully because of adamek heart. Take klitschko fight, there was no game plan (or was bad), even against arreola which a lot of people consider as a good fight was won because of adam heart and speed. Also I think adamek made horrible decision moving to heavyweight with his condition but even though he could show more in HW.
I don't know if Adameks 12th round success was because Glasgov was out of gas but it felt like he should have tried that earlier He sat back and tried to counter, then by 12 he combos his way in and hurts him The left hook still gets thrown with authority but his jab and right hand dont
Yes, Gmitruk suited TA much better. He brought out his best strengths. He focused on effective attack whereas Bloodworth only cares about defense, which is not one of Adamek's forte. Adamek's defense is his offense. Its still a bit of a mystery why Gmitruk left. Ostensibly, it was for medical reasons, however, he was back shortly training other fighters and being busy doing TV commentary. Some people think it may have been a financial dispute. I think it was his aggressive, in your face style of fighting that Rozalski and Duva disagreed with. So Bloodworth came it trying to remake TA into a pure boxer, which he ain't and never will be and it only had very partial success. Adamek's gameplan for Glazkov should have been a more aggressive style, considering both had about the same power. He was backing up way too much and was being beaten to the punch. Glazkov impressed early with his ability to return every punch he received with something more effective and stuffing TA with nice hard jabs. Then he just took more initiative and ran with it. The way Adamek fought in the last two rounds, should have been his entire gameplan from round 1. But for the risk averse Bloodworth that was not a good strategy. What do you expect from a former cutman?
At the time he moved up, he cleaned out CW and there were no compelling fights for him there. Obviously, had he waited a year or so other names would have popped up. He moved up because he wanted bigger fights (remember, even at CW he only got one Showtime appearance and nothing on HBO..the thing that proved to him CW had no money was that Showtime was unwilling to pay for Adamek-Cunnginham 2) and more $$$. Can't really blame him for that. His fights at HW were a mixed bag, but at least he fought often and had a few memorable fights.
how does one clean out the cruiser weight division with all of 3 IBF title fights? and one of those 3 being Bobby Gunn? yes i get people want "heavyweight money" but he was never gonna beat a klitschko , he was simply too small, regardless of what he weighed, it wasnt solid weight.....you dont go up from 175 to 220 (45 pounds) in just a few years and expect to be anything other than a blown up cruiser
Honestly there was little if no difference that I saw after Vitali. He did not slur his words and his fighting looked about the same, maybe a touch slower. Maybe the biggest difference was mentally he did not have as much determination as before.