Vitali vs. Adamek Saturday fight thread

[Mars_ax]

An Afternoon fight here on HBO in North America, beginning @ 4:45 PM EST, and 5-6 hours later across the pond.

September 10
At Wroclaw, Poland (HBO): Vitali Klitschko vs. Tomasz Adamek, 12 rounds, for Klitschko's WBC heavyweight title.

Adamek will come to fight, but Vitali will just be too big and/or too much for him, plus how the fuck is Adamek going to "outbox" Vitali? (his only chance)

Klitschko vs Adamek: Polish Support Giving Adamek Home Field Confidence - Bad Left Hook

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And later the same evening on HBO:


At Atlantic City, N.J. (HBO): Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Daniel Ponce De Leon, 12 rounds, featherweights.

After putting up a gallant effort in the first few rounds, Ponce will likely get obliterated by Gamboa soon after, don't go to the 'fridge when the fight starts.

[CFH]

Adamek has literally no chance here.

[Mars_ax]

Adamek has literally no chance here.

Adamek shows cojones for taking this fight, but I agree, his chances of winning are slim and none. Since Adamek is a "surviver", with a good chin, my guess is this will go 12 boring rounds with Vitali winning almost every round. (I hope I wrong and we see an entertaining fight)

[El Kabong]

Vitali will win by TKO. Remember Arreola rocked Adamek, Vitali will only do a better more efficient job. Adamek is a gutsy fighter, but his corner will stop the fight.

[armin]

Quite looking forward to this fight, and think it'll be pretty exciting while it lasts. While vitali is surely the favorite I don't think an adamek win is completely out of the question with a bit of help from father time. I like both guys so really just hoping for a decent fight.

[Master]

Hope Adamek wins this.

[Rantcatrat]

Vitali will win by TKO. Remember Arreola rocked Adamek, Vitali will only do a better more efficient job. Adamek is a gutsy fighter, but his corner will stop the fight.

This has about 90% chance of occuring. The only thing I can see is that Adamek is in the best shape of his life even coming in a little thinner than expected whereas Vitali finally shows some age. Then Adamek waits patiently making Vitali move around a lot during the first five or six rounds and then pushes the action a bit more the last 6 or 7 rounds. How big is the ring?

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

If Michael spinks could do it to Larry Holmes, then heres hoping Tomasz Adamek can do it to Vitali Klitschko!

[Pugilistic]

I can't see how anyone can give Adamek a chance here.

Adamek is undersized and is really a cruiserweight.

He lacks power at heavyweight, he's not faster than Vitali and he isn't a skilled enough boxer overall to compete with what Vitali brings to the ring like size, power (faded but still good), work rate and overall skills.

Adamek is tough and will make it to the late rounds but i see Vitali beating him up from the opening bell.

Adamek's face won't be a pretty sight at the end.

Vitali by late TKO.

[Nameless]

Adamek is by far one of my favorite boxers at the moment but I don't think he has the size to match the granite Ukrainian. However, I think that an Adamek-Haye fight would be entertaining as hell, I should start to harrass Goldenboy and Main Event to convince them to make it happen.

[Rantcatrat]

I can't see how anyone can give Adamek a chance here.

Adamek is undersized and is really a cruiserweight.

He lacks power at heavyweight, he's not faster than Vitali and he isn't a skilled enough boxer overall to compete with what Vitali brings to the ring like size, power (faded but still good), work rate and overall skills.

Adamek is tough and will make it to the late rounds but i see Vitali beating him up from the opening bell.

Adamek's face won't be a pretty sight at the end.

Vitali by late TKO.

What Adamek has is speed. He is faster than Vitali in foot speed and punch speed. Otherwise, you are right, he is at a big deficit.

[Fenster]

Borderline pointless fight. Adamek couldn't put a dent in Grant or Kevin McBride. Maybe he whips in some good punches early but they're gonna do nothing. His only shot is if Vitali gets injured during the fight.

Vitali TKO (8/13) is a lump on job.

[J_C]

Borderline pointless fight. Adamek couldn't put a dent in Grant or Kevin McBride. Maybe he whips in some good punches early but they're gonna do nothing. His only shot is if Vitali gets injured during the fight.

Vitali TKO (8/13) is a lump on job.

Why are you so confident? Vitalis last 4 fights, Kevin Johnson and Shannon Briggs went the 12 rounds (Briggs questionable letting it go on but go the distance it did). Neither of those are exactly world beaters. He only got Sosnowski out of there at the end of the 10th. Solis was a non fight. Vitali is definitely slowing down. He'll win but a UD would not surprise me one bit.

[Fenster]

Borderline pointless fight. Adamek couldn't put a dent in Grant or Kevin McBride. Maybe he whips in some good punches early but they're gonna do nothing. His only shot is if Vitali gets injured during the fight.

Vitali TKO (8/13) is a lump on job.

Why are you so confident? Vitalis last 4 fights, Kevin Johnson and Shannon Briggs went the 12 rounds (Briggs questionable letting it go on but go the distance it did). Neither of those are exactly world beaters. He only got Sosnowski out of there at the end of the 10th. Solis was a non fight. Vitali is definitely slowing down. He'll win but a UD would not surprise me one bit.

Good point.

However, Briggs and Johnson are much bigger than Adamek. Briggs hadn't been stopped for 100 years - and that was against Lewis - and Johnson is so negative he makes Haye look like prime Tyson.

With Adamek's style I can't see anything other than a gradual beating. To go the distance he would have to be negative, imo, which he is not. He is gonna be right in Vitali's range, has a huge size disadvantage and has no chance of a KO.

(trust me, anything I say is a cert is nothing of the sort. Vitali getting KO'd is not out of the question with my boc money on him )

[boxingbantz]

Far too small. Has no chance. Late stoppage for Vitali then an annoucement of a fight with David Haye no doubt...