By Sean McDaniel: Heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28 KO’s) has yet another light tune-up coming up in his next fight on April 9th at the Prudential Center, in Newark, New Jersey. The 34-year-old Adamek will be fighting the 37-year-old 6’6″ Kevin McBride (35-8-1, 29 KO’s), a fighter who has lost five out of his last six fights. This is an usually weak opponent for someone ranked as high as Adamak is, as contenders with the experience and the ranking that Adamek has usually opt to take on opponent that are at least marginally decent fighters. But by taking on McBride, it shows that Adamek is very cautious about possibly losing and ruining his mega fight against one of the Klitschko brothers in September.

Adamek had this to say about fighting one of the Klitschko brothers: “It doesn’t matter. I’ve got a contract that says 90 days before our September fight I will known which brother I am fighting. I think it will be Vitali Klitschko, but I don’t know now. It doesn’t matter when you fight with this kind of confidence wanting to be champion and wanting to make it happen.”

Adamek is right; It might not matter which Klitschko brother he ends up fighting because Adamek basically has almost no chance against either of the Klitschkos. There’s nothing there from Adamek’s past fights at heavyweight that would suggest that he will even be competitive against them. He’s just too small, too slow and too weak to beat them. He runs around the ring against heavyweights, sometimes jumping in to throw a punch and then running away. When he gets hit, he doesn’t look good and sometimes gets staggered. Adamek hasn’t been hit a lot against the mostly mediocre heavyweights that he’s fought but it doesn’t look to see him getting staggered by the likes of Chris Arreola and Michael Grant.

The good news is that Adamek will have no problems beating McBride on April 9th. The bad news is that Adamek is going to be destroyed in September against one of the Klitschkos. Hopefully, we won’t be seeing a rematch between them after Adamek gets blasted out because it would be boring to watch him get knocked out again or get trounced by both Klitschko brothers.