Long awaited rematch almost upon us

Cunningham-Adamek II this weekend

On Saturday 22nd December, at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, USA, Steve Cunningham and Tomasz Adamek will meet in a long awaited rematch.

To prove how big a rematch this is, on the night of the fight, legendary boxing announcer Michael Buffer will introduce both boxers.

Cunningham, now 36, has a record of 25-4 (12 KO's), and is a former IBF cruiserweight champion. His opponent, Adamek, is also 36, with a record of 47-2 (29 KO's). He is a former two-division World champion having captured the WBC light-heayweight and IBF cruiserweight titles.

Going in to their original meeting back on the 11th December 2008, Cunningham was the IBF cruiserweight title holder. Adamek earned himself a shot at the title having won an IBF eliminator bout in the same year.

The bout as a whole was incredible. It was packed with action in every round. Adamek had downed Cunningham a total of three times in rounds 2, 4 and 8. Despite this, Cunningham was able to land many jabs, right hands and combinations. It was a thrilling tussle to say the last between the two best regarded cruiserweights at the time.

Two judges were in favour of Adamek with scores of 116-110 and 115-112 whilst the other scored it in favour of Cunningham with a score of 114-112. It was a split decision victory for Adamek.
Leading up to this rematch, Cunningham has lost two of his past three bouts. The two losses he suffered were for the IBF cruiserweight titles which he had won in February last year. Meanwhile, Adamek has won three of his last four bouts since he was stopped by Vitali Klitschko in September last year.

Adamek is the current IBF North American heavyweight champion and this is the title the two are fighting for. In all honesty though and i'm sure many of you will agree with me here, the two do not need a title for this one. This just seems personal.

Here's what the two boxers had to say on the long awaited rematch.

"I wanted this rematch for a long time, especially right after the first fight, but it didn't happen," said Cunningham. "My career went on, his career went on, and now our paths cross again. I'm excited. I'm looking at this like it's the first time we're fighting," he added.

"After 2008 i'm sure Steve was hungry because I took his belt. He's waiting four years for rematch," said Adamek. "I will give him a chance to fight again with me. Should be interesting fight for my fans. Everybody knows me and sees how i'm a big warrior. I'm older by four years but i'm still a warrior."


Their first fight was immense, so let's hope the rematch is equally as good or even better!

 

Anyone care?

 

Not really. Cunningham has slipped since that time whereas Adamek has improved. It might be fun while it lasts though, since these midget-heavies tend to have better bouts.

Now Kessler-Froch, there is a long awaited rematch that I actually want to see

 

Not at all, but I'll watch because it's boxing and it's on TV.

 

Adamek 223
Cunningham 203.5

 

I don't like it when two fighters face each other in weight classes that neither one belong in.

 

Yet, that is precisely where boxings most "Intriguing" and most "Important" bouts have taken place as of recent.

 

So true. I realized just after I wrote that response that that's exactly what Pacquiao/Marquez IV had been. What do you make of of it?

 

Significant fight or not you mother fuckers should be excited because the first meeting was a strong candidate for fight of the year.

 

Ya, their 2008 fight was a top fight. Cunningham's wanted this rematch for ages now (4 years to be precise) and it has the makings to be a great one.

 

Boring. When is Aurelius Ponce De Vazquez fighting Pooncharaiwan Sangeslonngaga for the 102lb title???

 

Next Saturday.

 

EPIC. You better go and pre-heat the forum to gas-mark 9 {450 degrees F} and serve that fight up with some enchiladas and chilli.

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Tonights fight is a good fight and people should be looking out for it.

 

This Hamer fellow shouldn't get paid.

 

Roach shouldn't be part of a broadcast team imo. Sure he's knowledgeable, but the delivery is too slow and the speech hard to decipher.

 

That's a bit racialist.

 

a lot of problems with the broadcast, it's king of annoying

 

Glazkov won the bum fight easily

 

The guy doing interviews (Mannix) is AWFUL. So is the anchor.

 

for soemone who barely put up a fight in his only significant fight, Flores sure like to critisize a figher's heart

 

Still, he was spot on with Hamer. Commission should hold his cheque.

 

Maybe he had an injurie, but from the look of it, yeah, the quit job was ridiculous. Sure he wasn't gonna win, but at least try a little bit when things starts not going your way

 

didn't they just said that Richardson wasn't in Cunigham corner for this fight ?

 

Wasn't in the corner for the first fight.

 

Stinker so far. I always laugh when USS is described as 'skilled'

 

Adamek simply not letting his hands go enoug

 

He's always been club level... but he might be shot now. He takes tons of punishment in every fight.

 

damn, it seems that Cunningham wants to be robbed as he usually wins most of the round but runs ins some part wich really don't play well in judges eyes

 

at Flores saying he got the fight 6-4 ( after the 10th ) when he scored one of earlier round even

 

Close one, I only saw the last rounds properly. Cunningham has developed Popeye/Overeem like arms