By John F. McKenna (McJack): Former light heavyweight and cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek (44-1, 28 KO’s) will realize his long time dream on Saturday night when he steps into the ring against World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 KO’s).

“Goral” as his fans call him has won all six of his fights since moving up to heavyweight in 2009. No one questions that Tomasz is a very good fighter. He was a former champion at light heavyweight and cruiserweight before he decided to test the waters at heavyweight in October 2009. Adamek’s objective when he stepped up in class to heavyweight was to land a heavyweight title fight.

In his first fight at heavyweight against an over the hill Andrew Golota, Adamek scored a 5th round TKO. The fight was the largest live broadcast in the history of Polish television.
The Golota fight made Tomasz an instant celebrity in Poland.

Adamek followed up the Golota victory with a twelve round unanimous decision over Jason Estrada in February of 2010. The fight took place in Tomasz’s adopted home of Newark, NJ at the Newark Prudential Center. Next Tomasz took on Chris Arreola in April 2010 in Ontario, California. This time Adamek won a majority decision over the 250 ½ pound Arreola. Tomasz weighed in at 217 pounds for the fight.

In August of 2010 Tomasz won a unanimous decision over veteran Michael Grant at Newark’s Prudential Center. In an effort to keep busy Adamek next won by a 5th round TKO over Vincent Maddalone also at Newark’s Prudential Center in December 2010.

In Adamek’s last fight before his showdown with Vitali Klitschko he won a twelve round unanimous decision at the Prudential Center over Kevin McBride in April.

It is clear that Tomas Adamek’s strategy of landing a heavyweight title shot was successful. It is also clear that just as in David Haye’s case Tomasz did not face top opposition prior to his title shot. That is not in any way to compare Adamek to Haye. He is an altogether different animal and I suspect that he would rather go out on his shield than disgrace himself before the fans in his homeland.

David Haye suffered the consequences in July of not having faced any real opposition to prepare himself for a fight with Vladimir Klitschko. In addition Haye had been relatively inactive in the lead up to the fight. For that reason it appeared that the “Hayemaker” and his brain trust were forced to come up with an artificial means to win the fight. Hence the constant fall downs in an apparent attempt to have points deducted from Vladimir.

To his credit Adamek did stay active prior to landing the fight with Vitali. His problem is, who do you fight or spar with to prepare yourself for Vitali Klitschko?