By Jim Dower: In one of his worse performances in memory, Tomasz Adamek (46-2, 29 KO’s) defeated a one-armed Eddie Chambers (36-3, 18 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Prudential Center, in Newark, New Jersey. Despite winning the fight by the judges’ scores of 116-112, 116-112 and 119-109, Adamek actually appeared to be the loser of the fight at least on my scorecard.

I had Chambers dominating the action with his much cleaner and accurate shots. Adamek, who looked to be carrying around too much muscle on his frame, missed with a lot of shots and was constantly countered by the more accurate and quicker Chambers. Adamek had recently put on a lot of weight hoping it would give him more power. It doesn’t appear to have helped him any in that area of his game, as he looks to be about the same puncher he was at cruiserweight. At that weight class he was a big puncher, but at heavyweight, Adamek’s power is nonexistent.

Chambers had no problem finding Adamek’s head in this fight, as Adamek was so slow on his feet and unable to block Chamber’s shots. At cruiserweight and light heavyweight, Adamek was noted for his ability to get around the ring. However, he’s really starting to slow down now that he’s put in extra weight.

Chambers really took control over the fight in the 2nd half of the bout, spearing Adamek with right jabs and right hands, while constantly switching to southpaw and back again. Adamek was too slow to take advantage of Chambers while he was changing stance.

Adamek looks to be really limited now. He’ll probably get another title shot in a year or two as long as he avoids the better heavyweights in the division. However, he’ll lose to all of the current champions – Wladimir Klitschko, Vitali Klitschko and Alexander Povetkin – in my view.

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Undefeated heavyweight prospect Bryant Jennings (14-0, 6 KO’s) dominated Steve Collins (25-2-1, 18 KO’s), beating him by a 10 round unanimous decision by the scores of 100-89, 100-89 and 100-89. Jennings was able to use his quicker hands to get the better of Collins by landing a lot of hooks and combinations. However, Jennings’ stock went down in this fight in my estimation because he looked really tight, and lacked the power to put a very beatable guy away. Jennings’ jab isn’t good enough, and neither is his power to beat the better fighters in the division. He needs a lot of improvement in those areas if he’s to do anything. He definitely needs to work on his flexibility because he fights like a weight lifter with the way he’s so tight. Against fighters that are more limber, Jennings will be in deep, deep trouble.

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In other fights on the undercard:

John Thompson UD 6 John Mackey
Tureano Johnson UD 6 Roberto Young
Jose Peralta TKO 4 Dontre King
Patrick Farrell UD 4 David Williams
Jamaal Davis UD 8 Doel Carrasquillo