Tomasz Adamek’s warrior mentality was somewhat intact, but he also realized the dangers of fighting a hard hitting 250 lb opponent. In essence, his willingness to trade from bell to bell compared to the days at light heavy and cruiserweight were not completely there; albeit to his benefit.
Adamek retained his IBF International Heavyweight championship against top ten heavyweight Cris Arreola of Riverside, CA last night at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, CA after twelve rounds.
Both men had their moments, with the local favorite tagging and hurting Adamek with a number of flush right hands, while the latter boxed effectively in spurts. The contest was competitive throughout the bout, but Adamek’s one-two combos ultimately overruled Arreola’s heavy punches.
Adamek managed to stick to his heavyweight game plan (which includes jabs, right hands and semi-effective head movement, as opposed to his prior M.O. of exchanging punches) enough to eek out a majority decision over a late fading opponent that just wasn’t busy enough in the championship rounds.
The score of 114-114 was overruled by a surprisingly wide 117-111 and a more sensible 115-113 card for Adamek.
GSFS also scored the contest 115-113 for the Secaucus based Pole, who improves to 41-1 (27 KO’s) with the victory. This will likely land him a shot at one of the Klitschko brothers or spring him into the long proposed bout with David Haye.
Arreola slips to 28-2 (25 KO’s) with the defeat.
POLAND!:)
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