By Eric Thomas: World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (40-2, 38 KO’s) is reportedly in talks with the management of heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek (42-1, 27 KO’s) for a bout that would take place in March at Madison Square Garden, according to the latest boxing news. This is kind of presuming a lot on Klitschko’s part, because Adamek is said to be fighting 6’8″ Lance “Mount” Whitaker (35-6-1, 28 KO’s) next and as bad as Adamek looked in beating 38-year-old Michael Grant on August 21st in a 12 round decision, you can’t really assume that Adamek can get by even 38-year-old Whitaker.

Grant had Adamek hurt several times in his fight with him and Grant barely threw any punches at all in the fight. And there’s no telling whether Vitali will win his next fight against Shannon Briggs on October 16th. Briggs has huge knockout power, has been winning most of his recent fights with 1st round knockouts, has much better hand speed than Vitali and is almost as big as the Ukrainian at 6’4″.

If Briggs can put on hands on Vitali early in their fight, he may take him out. Briggs has the kind of power that can knockout any human alive. He has Lennox Lewis type power, and we saw what Lewis did to Vitali when they fought in 2003. It only took Lewis six rounds to shred Vitali’s face to ribbons. Briggs may not have good stamina, but if fights hard for four or five rounds, Vitali’s face may be cut to bits or he could end up knocked cold by Briggs’ big shots.

The Klitschko-Adamek fight might be a pipe dream on both Vitali and Adamek’s part. Those guys shouldn’t really be looking ahead at this point, because they’re not looking good enough to do that. Vitali has looked very average in his last two fights against Kevin Johnson and Alberto Sosnowski. And Adamek was staggered in his fight with Chris Arreola and most recently with Grant.