By Dan Ambrose: No matter how you look at the fight between WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 KO’s) and Polish challenger Tomasz Adamek (44-1, 28 KO’s), it’s hard to spot any area where Adamek has any advantage in this fight. He’s slow, short, small-framed, weak and not experienced against quality heavyweights.

The last area is one where Adamek could have helped himself, but made the mistake of taking on mainly old and mediocre heavyweights after moving up to the division in 2009. Adamek has shortchanged himself in that area. As far as the other areas go, Adamek just wasn’t cut out to be a heavyweight. He may be fighting at heavywieght now, but he’s matched against guys that he can beat and never faced any quality guys that likely beat him like David Haye, Alexander Povetkin, Alexander Dimitrenko, Denis Boytsov and Ruslan Chagaev.

Adamek is got to have to find a way to make up for his lack of size, speed and power on September 10th against Vitali at the Stadion Miejski, Wroclaw, Poland. It seems like a hopeless case for Adamek, because he’s deficient in too many areas for him to overcome them all. Adamek was okay while he was fighting guys like Kevin McBride, Andrew Golota and Michael Grant, but now that’s stepping up from the 2nd and 3rd tier, he’s going to be out of his league against Vitali and in a no win situation. He says he’s going to use his speed and foot movement to hit and not be hit in return.

In other words, Adamek is going to play hit and run, but that’s no winning situation. You can’t beat a fighter with long arms, a good jab and a powerful left hook like Vitali by hitting and then running. He’s too good at tagging his opponents with jabs and left hooks when they try to get in range to land their shots. And Adamek seems like he’s just in this fight to try and survive the full 12 rounds without getting knocked out.