The Mighty Adamek Express!

Tomas Adamek is a legitimate tough man who is going to beat-never that good in the 1st place-Michael Grant quite easily.

 

Another good win scored by Adamek at HW. Another exciting and dramatic fight that turned into a war in some moments. That guy cant be in a boring fight :happy

The fight left many wounds on Adamek's face. I heard that his team was planning to fight on 6th November in Prudential. Now it looks like he will need more time to recover because of these cuts (probably caused by Grant's elbows).

Now its time for speculations, who is next for Adamek? I believe that he will not face either Ktschko yet and David Haye looks like he is aiming in fighting Audley Harrison.

I think that Adamek has 2 possibilities:
-fight later this year against an easier opponent (Barett maybe?)
-take more time to rest and then fight a better opponent in the next year (are there any really good opponents besides Klitschkos and Haye?)

 

There is Povetkin, Valuev maybe and actually I think that this Helenius guy may be a tough challenge. Besides it's heavyweight and even lesser fighters always have some chance for the upset.

The question of course is what after this one or two more fights? In general I see the situation like that:



Tomasz may have been working on power but he just doesn't seem to have a HW punch. I mean he just doesn't throw his shots with full body commitment behind them like other succesful heavies like Holy or Tyson. He throws mainly combos and even when he tries to land some semi-looping shot, he seems to have this iron habit of immediate asecurration, not letting himself to go even slightly of position. It looks like it prevents him from throwing full power bombs.

He won't scare Klitschkos with this power and just doesn't seem to have any business with them at all unless he learns how to throw bombs which seems next to impossible.

Haye on the other hand seems to have enough speed and power to take him down with one or two shots whenever, while Adamek's offense would prolly not be enough to put Haye in deep trouble early. Tomasz is tough as nails but is not a defensive genius. His chin may be top notch but he's not McCall either as shown by Grant. Because of this I think it's like 65-35 chances that Haye gets to him before he gets to Haye. I call it as I see it.

If he avoids Haye's bombs well enough though, his chances are growing with every round, surely. So he should target David.

 

Adamek is constantly on the move. He doesnt plant his feet in one place long enough to set up good power shots it seems. He does half way but it isnt full commitment. He did better at CW because I think he moved a little less and put more behind those punches, now he seems to throw really fast punches, and move out as soon as possible.

So far it has been working, although not giving him KDs.

Aside from that Grant was an uncomfortable opponent. His size definently gave Adamek trouble landing, and doing what he wanted to. Lots of the power from his shots went off Grants shoulders, or long ass arms, before they finally connected to his head. He nailed Grant nicely I think in the 11th? or 10th? it seemed to hurt Grant a little, but definently not wobble him. Just not a comfortable opponent. He would have much more success with a small fighter.

As far as Haye goes. I think all Adamek has to do is fight smart and weather the storm. Haye hits hard, but lets not go too far, he isnt Mike Tyson. Adamek took some good shots from Grant tonight and was fine, got wobbled only in the 6th, but still was good enough to duck a shot, then lean back and avoid another, so he wasnt out on his feet, though wobbled.

In the 12th round while Grant won it, Adamek showed awesome defense ducking and getting out of the way of everything Grant threw at him. People are saying Grant had Adamek in trouble there. That is bull****. Adamek was NOT hurt at all in that round, and showed great defense.

I was hoping Adamek could maybe TKO Grant, but Grant came in much more prepared then I expected. Everybody is giving Adamek **** mostly because he was supposed to take Grant out, but instead Grant came in a solid, and pretty tough opponent. He had all the power, and size, and still managed to win maybe 2-3 rounds. Adamek still did what he had to and won a very clear decision. So what that he didnt TKO a 6'7'' 260 pound awkward for Adamek Grant. Adamek also gave some respect to Grant after that 6th round, he didnt really open up as much again until the 10thish.

It was a sloppy fight.

 

Adamek said in recent interview that he will fight only on PPV now. I think that its the preparation for the PPV fight on HBO in the next year (for a title)

 

No rofl nut It means adamek wont fight on hbo anytime soon. He was supposed to fight the fight after grant on hbo but Ziggi declined their few fights contract so they zygi and main events can choose adamek's oponnents, not Hbo. (scared of losing?) And if adamek somehow gets on HBo in his championship bout there is no way in hell it would be a ppv event.

 

He always may earn some extra cash so why not?

 

Tomasz Adamek: Moja kolejna walka będzie także w PPV. Musimy przyzwyczajać kibiców do tego, że walki są w PPV. Walki muszą być na HBO PPV, albo tylko na PPV tak jak to było w tej walce.


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Why do you say that there is no chance to be on HBO PPV? I think that HBO would analize the PPV statistics after Grant's fight and after Adamek's next fight (November or December) and they will make calculations if this is PPV worthy. I dont care if this is on HBO PPV or not, beacuse i will watch it for free. However this is what Adamek wants, when he wants really big cash.

 

What did TA say in that quote above???

Looks like a good interview...what did he have to say, basically??? These sites should have a "english" option.

http://boxingnews.pl/index.php?opti...ie-bd-taki-jak-mike-tyson&catid=1:latest-news

 

First of all boxingnews.pl aint very proffesional site, they often do horrible mistakes translating english texts.

Secondly adamek draws big crowd to Prudential center, but he's not the tv draw. The arreola fight was on of the worst hbo's fight this year if we talk about number of viewers.

Also adamek has nothing to say about whether the fight is on hbo ppv or regular Hbo, He doesnt have that kind of power. He's been recently only once on their broadcast and only beacuse he was fighting their pupil.

Im not even sure if they re still interested in showing his potencial fight against one of the klitchko's.

regular "PPv-s" are for fights that arent televised anywhere, its not really Glorifying. I doubt this grant ppv even reached 10 thousand viewers. (btw the price was ridicolous)

The only guys that re recently and regularly fighting on HBO ppv are Manny Pacquiao And floyd mayweather andlets be real here adamek isnt anywhere near them.

 

a european will not do good PPV #s - it's not realistic. a fight with haye could get some good money from HBO and potentially good ratings, but it would not go on PPV.

for adamek, a european and really a cruiserweight, the only way to go on PPV is to win a heavyweight title and cash in vs a big name opponent.

i'm sure he's doing well anyway with the live gate at newark and the polish TV money. that would seem to be his market and many elite fighters don't even have that. basically he's a regional attraction in america and a national star in poland.

so, he's fighting another big opponent - lance whitaker. and there is a change of venue - atlantic city? interesting.

 

I agree with most that you said. However you cannot predict with 100% certainty what will happen in the next year. It really depends on money. If HBO decides to hype Adamek, they can do it.

 

Few pics :good

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WOW! Very high resolution images you posted!:good

Where did you find them, Pope???:think