Chambers vs. Adamek on NBC Sports June 2012

Good for NBC :good

This is good for boxing :bbb :good

 

True...heavyweights sell and rake in casual viewers...that truism still holds...

It would be nice if they could try to wean the casuals off the HWs and get them to focus on (and tune in for) some of the smaller guys, though.

The premium cable giants (HBO and Showtime) have been really good about that - in fact neither shows many heavies at all. Which I like. :good


As far as HW bouts go, though - yes, Chambers vs. Adamek and Jennings vs. the winner are quality...both as entertainment and as credible match-ups of contenders.

 

Fres Oquendo just called out Jennings on fighthype!

 

If I were managing Jennings and trying to do it honestly and earnestly, neither overprotecting him nor throwing him to the wolves-moving him too soon- guys like Oquendo would be top picks for me. They're perfect. They hover around with a decent name, they're likely to give the rounds, give very valuable pro experience, but they're perfectly beatable for a guy like Jennings, I think. Oquendo, Barrett, Austin, Timur Ibragimov, McCall, Meehan, Firtha, Rossy, Williamson, Fields, Grant, Botha, these are the types of guys you want for him right now, I think. It will let him mature the right way. Against competent, beatable guys. Which I think they were doing with Liakhovich, which gives me hope he's on the right road.

 

True he needs to beat Adamek first but I thought he did decent against Wlad. He wasnt active enough but the dude has guts.

 

Fres Oquendo need to retire.. Jennings would beat him easily

 

Contender Vs. Contender great fight, Props to both for making it. Close win for Adamek, Eddie could outbox him if not rusty and in good shape though

 

You mean Jennings prize? He's still a prospect IMO. Both beat him I think.

 

My first impression was to go with Chambers but he has been inactive and Adamek has been going rounds. This could turn out to be a decent fight.

 

I hope it starts a trend. If they both make it a good bout, and rating come in big, other networks will follow.

 

Reckon this will be a classic which will almost certainly go the distance. It will also end with one set of fans saying that it was a fix and that their man had schooled the other one.

My prediction is that Chambers will win most of the early rounds, then Adamek will take control after about five rounds [to win by about 2 rounds]

 

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War Chambers.

 

Adamek will win but it will be a close one.

 

Pretty sure Dr David Peltz, mgr/promoter of Bye Bye, is still gunning to get Artur Szpilka in there with Jennings. Thus far UBP and Szpilka are not willing to take the early risk against another prospect.
But I think with the headliners on the card, NBC could sweeten the pot and really turn this into a mega card, raising the purses for both Jennings and TBA(if it be Szpilka). That is if, Szpilka is ready to take his first brutal unconscious coma KO loss.