By Jason Kim: The November 10th fight between IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (58-3, 51 KO’s) and Poland’s Mariusz Wach (27-0, 15 KO’s) is now a done deal and official for the O2 World Arena, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. The 6’7 1/2″ Wach will be trying to accomplish what his fellow countryman Tomasz Adamek could not and that’s to beat one of the Klitschkos.

Adamek tried his luck last September in a fight against Wladimir’s brother WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, but failed miserably in getting stopped in the 10th round. Like Wach, Adamek worked his way up to a title shot by facing a lot of C level opposition that had little chance of beating him.

The 6’6″ Wladimir has been making a big deal about Wach being a little bit taller than him but the slight size advantage that Wach has going for him is negated by the fact that he’s incredibly slow of hand and foot, easy to hit and terribly inexperienced to be getting a title shot. Wladimir is likely going to keep pumping Wach up because boxing fans as a whole see this as yet another mismatch for Wladimir.

Wach’s handlers could have done him a good service by putting him in with at least a couple of fringe world level contenders before matching him against Wladimir, because this is going to be a shocking step up for him that he’ll likely not be prepared for. Going from fighting guys like Tye Field and Jason Gavern to a fight against Wladimir is a pretty big step up. It’s not really fair to Wach, because he won’t be ready for the fight and will very likely end up looking silly in getting blown out. You can’t blame Wach’s handlers for agreeing to take the fight, because you never know if he’ll ever get another shot at a world title. If he were to fight an actual contenders instead of the 3rd tier guys he’s been fighting, Wach would likely get blown out, so it’s understandable why they might want to make the fight despite the probability that he’s not even close to being ready.

Wach told ESPN “My fellow countryman Adamek and [Albert] Sosnowski did not have what it takes to beat a Klitschko. I am not a former cruiserweight, but a real heavyweight. Klitschko will take a lot of hard punches before I knock him out. I will be the first Polish world heavyweight champion.”

Wach believes in himself and that’s a good thing. However, he’s not going to land many shots because Wladimir will be controlling the fight from the outside with his far superior jab and he’ll be using a lot of clinching to shut down whatever Wach might be thinking of starting up with his offense.