Tomasz Adamek

Tomasz Adamek
Data
Birth Name	Tomasz Adamek
Fight name	Góral
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	Polish
birthday	1st December 1976
place of birth	Gilowice near Żywiec
style	Left delivery
size	1.87 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	59
Victories	53
Knockout victories	31
Defeats	6th

Tomasz Adamek (born December 1, 1976 in Gilowice , Powiat Żywiecki , Poland ) is a Polish professional boxer and former WBC light heavyweight world champion and former IBF cruiserweight world champion. He has been boxing in the heavyweight division since 2009.

amateur

Adamek started boxing training at the Polish boxing club Góral Żywiec at the age of twelve . He then changed clubs several times. In 1994 he was Polish junior middleweight champion, in 1995 Polish champion (adults; elite class) in middleweight, and again in 1996 Polish middleweight champion and Polish U20 champion. In 1997 he won the runner-up title after losing to Józef Gilewski in the final.

At the 9th World Championships in Budapest in 1997, he was eliminated in the round of 16 against Russian Dmitri Strelchinin. For this he won a bronze medal at the 32nd European Championships in Minsk in 1998 , after only being eliminated in the semifinals against Alexander Lebsjak .

As an amateur, Adamek competed in 120 boxing matches, of which he won 108.

Selection of international tournament results

• August 1996: 3rd place at the Patras Tournament in Greece
• November 1996: 3rd place at the 17th Copenhagen Cup in Denmark
• June 1997: 3rd place at the Multi Nations Tournament in England
• September 1997: 3rd place at the 14th Feliks Stamm Tournament in Poland
• March 1998: 2nd place at the 29th Ústí Grand Prix in the Czech Republic
• September 1998: 1st place at the 15th Feliks Stamm Tournament in Poland

Professional career

In 1999 Adamek switched to the professional camp and won 28 fights in a row, 20 of them prematurely. He fought for some regional titles, such as the Polish championship and the intercontinental championship of the world associations IBF and WBO .

On May 21, 2005, he boxed in Chicago for the vacant world light heavyweight title of the WBC , which had been stripped of the title holder Antonio Tarver . Adamek won against the native New Zealander Paul "Hurricane" Briggs (balance: 23-1), who was able to beat talents like Jorge Castro and Stipe Drviš . In the action-packed fight, neither of the two boxers went down, and Adamek was declared the winner by majority decision in the end.

His first title defense he played on October 15, 2005 in Düsseldorf against Thomas Ulrich (28-1) and won by knockout in the sixth round. He made his second title defense on October 7, 2006 in Rosemont in a rematch against Paul Briggs (25-2). Adamek went down in the first round due to a counterattack by Briggs and received a point deduction in the ninth round because of a low hit, but was again able to secure the victory by majority decision. On February 3, 2007, he lost his world title in Kissimmee by a unanimous decision to the US southpaw Chad Dawson (22-0), with both boxers on the ground during the fight. After this defeat, Adamek changed the weight class and rose to the cruiserweight division.

In his next fight on June 9, 2007 in Katowice , he won the IBO title by an early win against Luis Pineda (21-5). This success was followed by three more wins, including an early win in April 2008 over O'Neil Bell (26-2). On December 11, 2008 he was with a points win by split decision against Steve Cunningham (21-1), the new IBF world cruiserweight champion. Adamek had the harder hits and sent the American down several times at the Prudential Center in Newark , and was named the best boxer in the weight class by Ring Magazine .

In February and July 2009 he defended the world title safely in Newark against Johnathon Banks (20-0) and Robert "Bobby" Gunn (21-3). Then Adamek changed again the weight class and rose to heavyweight, for which he resigned his IBF title. He won his first fight in the top class on October 24, 2009 in Łódź against his compatriot Andrzej Gołota (41-7), who was already in the ring with world champions like Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis . Gołota had no chance against Adamek and lost to the referee dropping out in the fifth round. Adamek also received the international IBF title through his victory.

In February 2010, he defeated Jason Estrada (16-2) unanimously on points and in April 2010 he faced Chris Arreola (28-1), whom he was able to beat by majority decision and achieved the NABO title. Against the physically superior Michael Grant (46-3), Adamek was in trouble in August 2010, but thanks to his activity he won the fight by unanimous decision. In December 2010 he beat Vinny Maddalone (33-6) and in April 2011 Kevin McBride (35-8).

On September 10, 2011, Adamek was the challenger for the WBC world heavyweight title against Vitali Klitschko (42-2). Against the experienced and physically superior Ukrainian he suffered a defeat in Wroclaw when he lost after many heavy hits by dropping out of the referee in the tenth round.

In 2012 and 2013, Adamek won each of his five fights against Nagy Aguilera (17-6), Eddie Chambers (36-2), Travis Walker (39-7), Steve Cunningham (25-4) and Dominick Guinn (34-9), where he also won the North American title of the IBF.

On March 15, 2014 Adamek lost by unanimous valuation against Vyacheslav Hlaskow (16-0) and also lost a subsequent fight on November 8, 2014 unanimously against Artur Szpilka (16-1). In September 2015 he won early against Przemysław Saleta (44-7). In April 2016 he lost to Eric Molina (24-3) by knockout in the tenth round, whereupon he announced the end of his career.

In June 2017 he made his comeback with a win against Solomon Haumono (24-3). In November 2017 he defeated Fred Kassi (18-6) in the fight for the international Polish heavyweight championship and defended the title prematurely against Joey Abell (34-9) in April 2018.

On October 6, 2018, he lost to Jarrell Miller (21-0) by knockout in the second round .

Further awards

• Box discovery 2005 by the WBC association
• Second place in the 2005 election of the Polish Sportsman of the Year by the Przegląd Sportowy newspaper ( Sportrundschau )

Private

On October 12, 1996, Adamek married. He has two daughters with his wife Dorota.

Web links

Commons : Tomasz Adamek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Tomasz Adamek in the BoxRec database

predecessor	Office	successor
Antonio Tarver	Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) May 21, 2005 - February 3, 2007	Chad Dawson
Steve Cunningham	Cruiserweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) December 11, 2008 - October 18, 2009	Steve Cunningham