**** Kirk's Championships 2010 ****

Thanks man, you all are the reason i keep it up :good

 

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13/08 - Chris Arreola vs Manuel Quezada
14/08 - Jean Pascal vs Chad Dawson
14/08 - Donnie Nietes vs Mario Rodriguez
14/08 - Gennady Golovkin vs Milton Munez
14/08 - Anselmo Moreno vs Nehomar Cermeno
14/08 - Miguel Angel Garcia vs Cornelius Lock
14/08 - Ji Hoon Kim vs Miguel Vazquez
21/08 - Marco Huck vs Matt Godfrey
21/08 - Tomasz Adamek vs Michael Grant
27/08 - Cesar Ceda vs Jose Lopez
27/08 - Mzonke Fana vs Cassius Baloyi
28/08 - Marcos Rene Maidana vs Demarcus Corley
28/08 - Ivan Calderon vs Giovanni Segura
30/08 - Viacheslav Senchenko vs Charlie Jose Navarro

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GRANTS take on his upcoming fight against ADAMEK

“I only have 3 losses, those losses were learning stones for me, stepping stones. At this point in time when I step into this fight with Adamek, it’s a great opportunity for me and I’m ready for it. I’m experienced; I’ve got a hell of a trainer; I’m having a hell of a camp. I mean everything is lining up. This fight is a very important opportunity to me and my family.

“I’m ready for this fight. More experienced, more solid at this level right now. I’ve got a nice team, great training camp. I’ve got Eddie Mustafa and this is one of the times that I’ve trained the hardest. The only time I’ve trained harder than this is when I fought Lennox Lewis, so this is how I know that things are lining up for me to be victorious.”

(How did Eddie change improve your style?) “I don’t think Eddie changed my style. He’s a hard knocks guy; he’s from the old school. You gotta know Eddie, he’s a good trainer, he’s been there, he’s been to the top, he’s been a world champion himself. He’s just basically using that talent, ability and experience to get me to the top cause he knows that his experience and my experience packed together means we basically have a hell of a combination. He hasn’t changed my style but he knows what I have, and knows what he sees in me and what we put on the table in camp and he also sees a victorious win for us.”

(There’s going to be some point when Adamek is going to get in close and beyond the jab, how are going to handle that?) “I don’t even see him getting beyond that jab. The jab is the most important punch in the game. From the jab perspective, if you’re getting past my jab you’re in range of my right hand, that’s the rule of thumb. Anytime that they step one inch past that jab, it’s the right hand that’s coming and if you know the fight game, then you follow that up with a left hook. Its speed, combination, consistency and pressure that is going to be the victorious winner over Adamek. Everybody is talking about how he’s slick, I don’t see it! I don’t see no slickness. I don’t see any of this! Only thing I can probably say is that the man he likes, you know, you can see that he’ll run around. But when he comes up against punching power, that man will try to punch you, that man tries to be slick.”

“You know it’s not gonna be a brawl because he’s (Adamek) not gonna fight like that. This is not a hard or complicated fight. It’s not like 2 chess players making the best moves. No, it’s not like that at all. He’s a very simple, ABC type guy.”

(Do you respect Adamek’s chin, like when he fought Arreola?) “You have to stick to your game plan. Listen, when I’m in there I don’t think about fighters other fights. I’m gonna think about that fight right there. And if I see an opening for a right hand, I’m not going to question his chin, that right hand’s coming.”

 

Personally, im fairly confident Adamek will win this one. Im not 100% on it, i was 100% sure in Khan vs Malignaggi, Berto vs Quintana, and a few otheres... but im pretty sure Adamek has all the tools to win this fight. And should Grant make it competetive somehow, i believe Adamek has the heart to push through for the W when it matters. Grant is saying all the right things, and maybe he can make this fight more interesting then it appeared it would be, but i will be a bit suprised (and hugely dissapointed) if hes able to beat Adamek right now.

 

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