By Dan Ambrose: There are fights where you shake your head and wonder how the mismatch could have ever been put together in the first place. This is one of them. WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 KO’s) defends his title against a former light heavyweight and cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek (44-1, 28 KO’s) on September 10th in Adamek’s home country of Poland.

Adamek’s people are thinking he has to score a knockout over Vitali to win the fight, and this obviously true because Adamek won’t win a round against Vitali – not one. Nobody wins rounds against the big 6’7″ Vitali, in particular fighters that run around the ring and don’t throw a lot of punches like Adamek.

We saw Adamek go life and death with 38-year-old journeyman Michael Grant last year, and even get staggered by him. That tells you all you need to know about the Vitali-Adamek fight. Further, Adamek couldn’t even take out a slow, and I mean very, very slow, 38-year-old Kevin McBride in his last fight last April.

If Adamek can’t even stop an old slow guy like McBride, who came into the Adamek fight having lost four out of his last five fights, then how on earth can Adamek even hope to knockout a much better fighter like Vitali? The obvious answer is he can’t. Adamek won’t be knocking anyone out, and he won’t be winning a round. He’ll just be a punching bag for Vitali until he’s knocked out. That is, unless Adamek takes the safe route and just runs to survive, and stinks up the joint in front of a packed Stadion Miejski, in Wroclaw, Poland.

Hopefully, Adamek fight like that because I think his fans will be disgusted with that kind of approach when he’s fighting for a title. But you have to look at how Adamek has fought in the past to guess what he’ll do in the future, and Adamek hasn’t been attack fighter since he fought at light heavyweight. After he moves up to cruiserweight, Adamek changed into a hit and run fighter.

And since moving up to heavyweight, Adamek is even more of a hit and runner-type. He actually makes Chris Byrd look like Mike Tyson in terms of offensive fighting. Adamek doesn’t mix it up anymore and just looks to hit and get out of the way. No way will he win any rounds against Vitali, and a knocking him out is a dream that will never come true for Adamek.