Steve Cunningham to fight Tomasz Adamek on Versus
Philly’s lone world boxing champion Steve “USS” Cunningham (22-1, 11ko’s) will defend his IBF Cruiserweight title against Poland’s Tomasz Adamek (35-1, 24ko’s), the IBF’s #1 contender, in Newark, NJ on Thursday December 11th. The card will be a dual promotion put together by Main Events and Don King Productions and will be televised around the world on the Versus network. For those who don’t know, Cunningham puts the W in world champion. Fearless of foreign lands, he has traveled the globe to win and successfully defend the strap. Despite his on going success, his talents have been all but ignored by the major networks until now. In Cunningham’s last outing, he traveled to Germany and knocked out hometown #1 contender Marco Huck in the 12th round with a vicious uppercut, leaving no chance of getting shafted on the scorecards.
Adamek, a former champion in the 175lb division has been campaigning as a Cruiserweight for a year now. After a few warm-up bouts, he went on to make former Cruiserweight champ O’Neill Bell look like a shot fighter when Bell quit on the stool after 8 rounds in their title elimination match. His big splash in the States came a few years back after two classics with Australian Paul Briggs. His lone loss comes against Light Heavyweight champ Chad Dawson.
Though Newark is close enough to Cunningham’s home of Philadelphia, he plays the role of outsider again as the Polish fight fans come in flocks and have no problem making he trip from North Jersey and NYC to support their guy.
The winner of this fight will certainly be recognized as “the man” in the Cruiserweight division. Adamek has been in a few classics in his day and USS is one of the hardest working fighters in the business. Newark isn’t too far away, buy a ticket and support our local fighter by calling 201-507-8900
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