Bill Emes was front and center for Main Events' press conference to announce the rematch between heavyweights Tomasz Adamek and Steve Cunningham, set for December 22 at Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem and broadcast live in the afternoon on NBC. The highly anticipated fight is a defense of Adamek's IBF North American Heavyweight Championship belt. The fight took on added significance when the IBF informed the promoters that the fight would be for the #2 position in the IBF ratings and that the winner would be ordered to fight #1 contender Kubrat Pulev of Germany for the right to be Wladimir Klitschko's next IBF mandatory opponent.