Vitali vs. Adamek Saturday fight thread

[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.

[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?

[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 )

[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.

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.

I disagree.

I think Vitali has the faster hands, you could say Adamek's footwork is quicker though.

[CutMeMick]

Been backing Adamek since his fights vs. Briggs... (Minus the time he fought by boy BCD)
Even when people said he would lose.
From what I remember people said he would lose to USSR, Bell & Banks.

However here I just see Vitaly hammering him and getting the TKO.
It's not like Adamek is elusive. If he had the slightlest waist movement or something I think he'd last 12 rounds but I don't.

By the way I back Adamek vs. any other heavyweight (Haye, Chambers, Sascha, Povetkin etc.)

[Hunter]

I really like Adamek. He is willing to fight anyone and wont run, but this is a bad match up for him. I hope he gives Vitali a run for his money but I think Vitali stops him in round 8.