Should Adamek retire after Vitali beats him?
August 28th, 2011
By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Tomasz Adamek (44-1, 28 KO’s) has been working for the past two years beating older heavyweights like 42-year-old Andre Golota, 38-year-old Kevin McBride and 38-year-old Michael Grant (to name just a few) in order to get his title shot against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 KO’s).
The only question is how – Knockout or lopsided decision? But a loss for Adamek will be a pretty big setback for him and one where it’s going to be difficult for him to get another quick title shot. I’m sure he can get another title shot by going back to the old timers to pick up three or four wins, and have the sanctioning bodies push him back up to No. 1. But it’s going to take awhile and it won’t be immediate.
So should Adamek stick it out, fighting a handful of late 30s/early 40s type heavyweights to get another title shot or should be just hang up the gloves and retire? Adamek has a problem in that the heavyweight division is getting better with bigger heavyweight contenders like Tyson Fury, David Price and Robert Helenius maturing and making their presence felt.
I just can’t see Adamek being able to compete against those guys and I see him getting pushed down the heavyweight food chain to where he’s a non-factor pretty soon whether he sticks around after the Klitschko loss or not.
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If someone is ranked number 2 in the heavyweight division it as surely liable to say that they have zero chance of winning. Just saying
He should go back to a lower weight division.
Ambrose is soooooooooooooooo stupid. He is #1 Adamek hater. Jerks off to haye and reads nothign about Adamek so he has no clue
Outside of the Klitsckos, Adamek is the best out there. Id like to see him slap that stiff Deontay Wilder around a bit!
I hope Adamek does pull a victory! but Vitali is just a freak of nature but im still give him a chance in winning on points! as long as he dosent get cought like he almost did vs Arreola! but then again Arreola was out of shape and was injured during the fight and was still able to hurt Adamek makes me wonder! either way win or lose i would like to see Adamek fight Arreola once again Im just wondering how a rematch vs a healthier Arreola would turn out!
I’d like to see Adamek fight Arreola once again then Haye! well thats if he gets past the new and improved Arreola! then he could retire!
adamek is a small guy fighting giants. but that’s Poland for you-DUMB
adamek could win this one!!! but i still dont like his new style!!
He could always go back to crusier weight. The Cruserweight divsion would be pretty awesome if some of these barely heavyweights like Potvetkin, Chambers, Haye, and Ademek would fight there
@Paul is he really that much better? Because it seems to me that he wasnt that much better then ‘Fatso’ Arreola, the same man Vitali made cry
well, well… the question is what Ambrose should do after Adamek beats Vitali. The way he writes about Adamek might give some impression that he lost some money, simply because he had put it before on the wrong horse. Oh boy, don’t worry…put it against Adamek, make a bet and put up or shut up.
Adamek is much better than all the fatso who fought the K-Bros.
If Adamek has no serios brain damage after that fight he should seek for a big money fight against David Haye. It´s acutally a cruiserweight fight but would be much more exciting to watch than a natural light heavy against a superheavy. What a mismatch.
retire heck no just fight guys his own size. the pole probably beats Povetkin all the american stiffs-haye keep fighting but guys under 220.
Adamek just isn’t strong enough to dent vitali. This is a guy lennox hit cleanly and he barely wobbled. If he could stand toe to toe with him, he’s not going to be troubled by adamek at all. He’ll just walk him down inside 9 rounds.
Froy, you need to watch the Dawson v Ademek fight again…
Adamek v Pov would be a good match up
I would love to see a changing of the guard somehow.
I would love to see Adamek win this fight to prove the critics wrong. Every boxer especially heavweights has a punchers chance. Adameck you can do it bro, just believe.
i think adamek has a good chance off pulling the upset….i’m not saying that he is a super fighter nor i’m saying he has a super chin!!( he got knock down by chad dawson in the middle weights) but he did improve as a fighter a weird type of fighter that could do just enough and can make vitali look his age, the type of fight he fought against arreola……..