By Eric Thomas: Former two division world champion Tomasz Adamek (45-2, 28 KO’s) will be facing one of his tougher non-heavyweight champions in Eddie Chambers (36-2, 18 KO’s) on June 16th at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

For the 35-year-old Adamek, Chambers is a huge step up from the guys that he’s mostly been fighting since he moved up to the heavyweight division in 2009, when you exclude Chris Arreola and Vitali Klitschko.

Adamek has been facing mostly older heavyweights far removed from their prime. It remains to be seen if the 30-year-old Chambers still has anything left, because he’s been so inactive in the last two years since losing by a 12th round knockout to IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in March 2010.

Chambers has fought only once since then, defeating Derric Rossy by a 12 round decision last year in February. The fact that Chambers hasn’t been fighting is obviously the reason why he was selected by Adamek, because if he was fighting four to five times a year and beating everyone, he’d probably be considered much too dangerous for Adamek to face. After all, Adamek is trying to get another title shot after being run over by WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko last September in Poland in a one-sided loss.

Adamek said to RingTV “I will win because I have speed.”

Adamek’s hand speed isn’t that great. What he does have is good foot speed for a heavyweight, or at least he used to. He didn’t look all that fast on his feet in his last fight against Nagy Aguilera last March in a 10 round unanimous decision victory.

I thought Adamek looked decent in that fight, but he was hit a lot in that fight. He had the perfect opponent in front of him, however, with Aguilera. This is a fighter that had been beaten on a number of occasions by guys like Chris Arreola and Antonio Tarver before he got to Adamek.