By Michael Lieberman: #1 ranked WBO heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28 KO’s) has revealed on his website that he plans on signing a contract to fight IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s by next week for a fight that will be taking place in September. That fight is going to be a huge one and will likely be shown on HBO in the United States.

HBO hasn’t had much interest in televising Wladimir’s fights due to the lack of fan interest in many of these mismatches, but they’ll likely make an exception to the Adamek fight because this is actually might be a competitive fight unlike Wladimir’s recent bouts against fighters like Samuel Peter and Eddie Chambers.

Speaking on his website tomaszadamek.pl, Adamek said this about a fight against Wladimir Klitschko: “On New Year’s Eve a week ago, writing a blog, I mentioned that I hope to fight for the championship belt by the end of 2011. Today, all indications are that in the coming week I will be signing a contract to fight Wladimir.”

This is good news for boxing fans, for there has not been anything good to hear about Wladimir recently. He was looking to fight WBA heavyweight champion David Haye in July, but shortly after Wladimir decided to sign on for a tune-up bout against Dereck Chisora for April, Haye chose not to agree to the July bout because he thinks it will be disrupted by Wladimir’s fight with Chisora.

Haye now will be fighting his mandatory challenger former WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev next in May. If not Chagaev, then Haye will likely take on the next available option. Haye will take a lot of heat if he doesn’t fight Chagaev and ends up fighting another Audley Harrison caliber fighter.

Adamek moves well, has good power and excellent boxing skills. In the past, he won titles in both the light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions where he was something of a power puncher. At heavyweight, however, Adamek much less of a knockout threat, as his power didn’t travel up with him. He can still punch a little and if Wladimir doesn’t cover up like he failed to do in his 2nd round knockout loss to Corrie Sanders in 2003, Adamek has the power to take him out.