Quote Originally Posted by CFH View Post
Can someone explain to me, using specifics, how a fighter like Adamek (who is a relatively mediocre heavyweight) could cause even a 40 year old Vitali Klitschko problems? I just don't see how it's possible. Adamek is too small, he has next to no power, he can't outjab Vitali, and he can't outbox him, and I think he's chinny as a HW. How can he win?
Well, here is what Adamek's people are thinking: Adamek uses the whole ring and moves a lot all around it. Adamek has practiced moving in and getting out against his heavyweight opponents while dancing around the ring for each round. He doesn't knock his heavyweight opponents down, but he throws more punches and lands more punches than they do on average each round. He'll try and make this a boring fight. He'll plan to box Vitali for 12 rounds and hope the giant loses a step in the middle to late rounds and then he can begin to win some of the rounds on points. I wouldn't be super surprised if he lost the fight in a 116-112 kind of manner.