By Dan Ambrose: The August 3rd fight between Tony Grano and heavyweight contender Tomasz Admamek (48-2, 29 KO’s) is off due to Grano suffering some kind of injury that will prevent him from taking the fight, says Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated on his twitter.

Adamek’s team already have a replacement opponent in Dominick Guinn (34-9-1, 23 KO’s) and the fight will go ahead for August 3rd at the Mohegan Sun Casino, in Uncasville, Connecticut, USA.

It’s not really a big deal when you think about it. Grano was coming off a loss anyway to Eric Molina. At least the 38-year-old Guinn won his last fight and isn’t coming into the bout with a loss the way that Grano was doing.

Guinn has lost three out of his last four fights and that’s not good. But he was beaten by some good heavyweights in Denis Boytsov, Kubrat Pulev and Amir Mansour. There’s no shame in losing to those guys, especially when two of them [Pulevl and Boytsov] would likely beat the 36-year-old Adamek if they were given the chance.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for them to get a chance against Adamek because that’s probably not going to happen. Adamek is being very careful about his matchmaking now, and he already turned down a fight against Pulev last February that would have locked him in as the IBF mandatory for Wladimir Klitschko if he had took the fight and won it.

Adamek has a four-fight win streak after getting a title shot against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko in 2011 and losing by a 10th round stoppage.

Guinn’s prime years of his career came from 2001-2003. He beat the likes of Duncan Dokiwari, Michael Grant, Derrick Banks, and Otis Tisale. He also beat Audley Harrison in 2006. Guinn’s career went downhill after he was beaten by the following heavyweights: Monte Barrett, Siarhei Liakhovich, James Toney, Tony Thompson, Eddie Chambers, and Robert Hawkins.

It looks like Adamek is taking the soft path to get another title shot. He’s not taking any risks and just biding his time fighting either fringe level heavyweight contenders or 2nd tier fighters like Guinn.

If that’s what Adamek, #9 WBC, #12 IBF, is doing then it’s going to take him a long time before one of the sanctioning bodies makes him the mandatory for Wladimir, because he’s pretty far off the target. It might take a couple of years before Adamek becomes the mandatory by fighting weak heavyweight competition.