Adamek defeats Estrada
February 7th, 2010
By Sean McDaniel: After having an easy time in his initial fight at heavyweight in beating 41-year-old Andrew Golota in October 2009, former International Boxing Federation cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek (40-1, 27 KO’s) was put in with decent heavyweight tonight in Jason Estrada (16-3, 4 KO’s), whom he struggled to beat by a 12 round unanimous decision at the Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey. Adamek. Estrada, 29, landed early and often finding it very easy to connect with pretty much anything he threw at Adamek.
The problem for Adamek was his lack of defense. Indeed, Adamek blocked punches mainly with his face tonight rather than his gloves and he looked like a 50s heavyweight fighting in the 2010.
I had forgotten how poor Adamek’s defense was as a light heavyweight. After only one round of watching Estrada connect with punch after punch to the head of Adamek, it was like going back in a time warp to his two wars with Paul Briggs where Adamek’s face looked like it had been through a shredder.
Thankfully, Estrada didn’t beat Adamek’s face up like Briggs did, but he did land a lot of shots in the fight. For his part, Adamek was able to land effectively against Estrada with nice combinations. However, the punches failed to have any effect on Estrada whatsoever. The problem for Adamek is that he lacked hand speed and his shots seemed to suffer for that reason.
Plus, Adamek, at 220, really wasn’t punching like a big heavyweight. It’s possible that Adamek will gain more strength as he puts on more weight in the future. At 6’1” 220, Adamek doesn’t look like he can put on too much more size. The 20 pounds that Adamek has put on since moving up from the cruiserweight division makes Adamek look slightly fat and slow. It’s hard to imagine what he might look like if he puts on another 10 to 20 pounds.
Adamek has his work cut out for him if he wants to stay in the heavyweight division. Estrada is a heavyweight that Adamek should have been able to dominate without any problems, yet Adamek struggled badly against him. There’s talk of Adamek fighting heavyweight contender Chris Arreola in April. I think that might be a bad idea. Adamek doesn’t look ready for that fight, at least as far as I’m concerned. He can take the fight, but I think Arreola will beat him quite easily.
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Kper, what’s that remark about Adamek being Polish? Half of the so called ‘American Fighters’ are either from Latin America or Italian. Take Rocky Marciano, Paulie Malignaggi, Arturo Gatti etc. At the moment there is only one decent guy from the States that has some potential in HW – Eddie Chambers. Really, apart from Jack Dempsey there never was a fully blooded white American fighter at the top of this game.
Anyway about Adamek’s defence – I agree, he might not be the typical european style fighter with a close shop type guard, but still he has brilliant head movement, good reflexes and great chin. Now he might not be able to take on the Klitschkos due to their size and power. But he can defintely take on Arreola. And let’s be honest guys, the Klitschkos made the division boring with their 10 meter jab range and left-right combination style.
Just to straighten this out – Holyfield weighed only 210 pounds in his first HW bout, so that’s 10 pds less than Adamek did against Estrada. And Holyfield is 6′2 not 6′4 people.
Last remark – why did Adamek leave the Cruiserweight division?
Easy answer: no real competition with Haye in HW, more money and popularity and obviously only the HW Division is the Real Deal in Boxing.
do you things that he is stupid? dont know what he is doing ? beside how many fighters do you know who changed division to heavy? he is f…. good. i dont even care that he is pol…..
Adamek has gained over 46lbs of muscle in roughly 3 years.Boxing’s urine tests are a complete joke.
I think this was a good fight. Adamek outboxed Estrada and didn’t eat so many shots as some people are saying.
He ia much better than minto and faster too.
A fight with Arreola would be very entertaining. Arreola will underestimate Adamek.
Adamek should hire Freddie Roach and hang out with Pac as much as he can. After that, I’m sure he will naturally gain 30 lbs and be stronger, faster and have more stamina than ever.
Badr
If he has defence how come everytime he fights he gets hit so much?(Not just the last fight but most of his fights he gets tagged ALOT!)
His hand speed is nothing special by any means. You say his hand speed is the same as it was at cruiser?! Not even close and he was outspeeded at cruiser many times!(Cunnigham tagged him so many times I lost count!) He does have an excellent chin,heart,durability and is always in good shape.As long as he keeps fighting he is entertaining to watch I will give him that. (When it comes down to it that is the most important thing, to be entertaining!)
I just think that if he remained at cruiser he could stay champion and maby even unify. At heavy he will get his skull caved in sooner or later!
@ Mike
SKILL > SIZE…plus Adamek with 220 has the look of heavyweight…he is not skinny anymore
He has defense and CAN take punishment, unlike some current Heavyweight champions
he is fast as much as he was at cruiser
he hasn’t the KO power…but has ENOUGH power
Arreola is SLOWER SLOWER and SLOWER than Estrada….His defense is WEAKER WEAKER and WEAKER than Estrada…even his chin is questionable.
he is definitely more powerful than Estrada but is LESS SKILLED…and both Estrada and Adamek could Decision him
I go with the school of thought that this is the start of a possibly good show at heavyweight. Say what you like about Adamek’s performance he still beat Estrada, so what does that say about the big six. Now He is really going nowhere after a lot of talk, and nobody ever said he wasn’t a true heavyweight.
Don’t judge one performance, particularly after he just won.
That said he and many others are never going to beat either Klitschko, but may well beat Haye. Look out Haye, you are going to be a marked man with that plastic title, and may well lose it before getting anywhere near a Klitschko.
Adamek would get beaten by Arreola.He does NOT have the punching power or the size to compete with him.Guys like Mike Tyson were successful at heavy because of a wicked defence,great chin and awesome power!(Plus Mike is a natural heavy) Adamek is a good fighter but he is making a mistake fighting at heavy if he wants to win a title and become “the man” to beat at heavy!
Alan
Your right that a guy usually cannot look good everytime out but Adamek is too slow,no defence and NOT a big puncher at heavy!
Adamek is NOT big enough to become champion at heavy.He has NO defence and his hand speed was not that fast as a cruiserweight to begin with!He does have a good chin and good power,at cruiser.Adamek,if you want to follow in Evander Holyfields shoes you had better grow a couple of inches and get faster!(Its NOT going to happen!)
Go back to cruiser!
In my opinion Adamek deserved to win despite not having fought
like he did in his most recent fights. You cannot expect a guy always to go out and take a load of shots just to entertain us boxing fans. End of the day this sport is mainly about winning. Win in ugly fashion rather than lose in style.
Look what happened to Gatti in his last career fights.
So this was not the Adamek that we got used to – but how many good white heavyweights are ou there except for the Klitschkos. A few more fights and we will truly see what Adamek is capable of. Beating Arreola? Definitely! Chubby guy with the speed of a chess player. C’mon!
@Anthony 20
what about Steve Cunningham at Heavyweight…he is even BIGGER than Adamek
Adamek isnt ready for any of the top heavyweights he struggled against Estrada which isnt a bad thing as he isnt a push over but in my opinion he should go back to cruiserweight and rematch Steve Cunningham and try and unifi the division.
Estrada was lighter than ever, and in BETTER shape than he was against Povetkin
Congratulations Adamek, He Beated a NEW and FASTER estrada. i scored it 116-112 for Tomasz
Arreola is fighting on april 24th, I DOUBT Adamek would be ready…though i would love to see Adamek beating Arreola’s fat ass
Please don’t forgot that it is first really fight in heavyweight.
I think that Tomasz can win with Areola.
We will live , we will see.
I think that Sean McDaniel underestimate Jason Estrada. He’s a really good fighter, uncomfortable for the oponents. Estrada looks much better (very good shape) against Adamek than against Povietkin.
I agree – Adamek is to small for Klitscho brothers, but to fast for Arreola.
he needs to fixed up with hayes steroid dealer…or holyfield’s…boys put on 20 pounds of shredded weight in a year, not possible without chemistry, but then i dont think you can move up without it…it got jones a momentary title…
Gutsy fighter but he stands no chance against the huge HWs like the K brothers. The size differences are just too large.
Adamek is never going to be a force in this division. Not big enough or strong enough. Hes not a natural Heavy thats been keeping the weight down at Cruiser.
Dont wana sound like im slating him cuz hes a real good boxer but hes not got the body for this weight. Hes fought 2 won 2 but he wouldnt last too long against the weights top men.