Video - Larry Merchant on Adamek vs. Klitschko fight

Adameks footwork is not good enough to avoid Vitalis offense. His face will not hold up from the hookercuts and jabs. Its going to be a destruction of the brave Adamek.

 

I think Adamek may pull a number on Vitali. We will see if he has enough cheen and can land shots consistently. If he can, watch out. Vitali has been forced fed with a steady diet of crude and unintelligent bangers ever since Lewis. This will be quite different as Adamek won´t just stand there nor walk straight into Vitali´s punches. He will be in there with a tough SOB who knows how to win. Of course, thesame can be said of Vitali.

 

And he did. The only problem is, Wlad's "CHEEN" isn't glass.

 

Haye looked clueless and was only interested in surviving with as little damage as possible. Guarantee you Adamek won´t be coming in with an attitude like that. Adamek has shown to be a competent mobile fighter at HW, while Haye does not know how to fight while moving, especially laterally. We saw this with Valuev, Harrisson and Wlad.

 

For some reason I have a distinct feeling about Adamek. If he's tough enough to take a few good right hands throughout, then I think he can flurry and circle Vitali with an edge in footspeed and hand-speed in throwing a few punches at a time effectively, earning a close decision. The age of Vitali will start to show, I believe, and the perfect fight by Adamek could be one of those upsets we didn't see coming and will rationalize in hind-sight.