Grant: Adamek Has Heart, Lacks Heavyweight Power

By Mark Vester

Heavyweight veteran Michael Grant put on a decent effort against Tomasz Adamek last Saturday night in Newark, New Jersey. Grant, 6'7 and 261-pounds, spoke with BoxingScene.com's Bill Emes following the contest and said Adamek has the heart, but he lacks any real power to be a true heavyweight force.

Adamek was a strong force at light heavyweight and cruiserweight. The power of the Pole has not traveled up to heavyweight. Besides a shot Andrew Golota, Adamek has been unable to stop or seriously hurt any of his heavyweight opponents. Adamek throws and lands a lot of punches to keep his heavyweight opponents in place, which Grant says is another flaw.

Grant advises Adamek to fight one of the Klitschko brothers in the near future because he's rolling the dice with each passing heavyweight fight.

"He has the heart, but he doesn't have the power. That can be his achilles' heel because heavyweights bring power. For him to get those punches off, it's encouraging but he wears himself out. You saw how tired he was? I wasn't really breathing [hard]. I was trying to knock him out and get him out of there but he was moving so fast," Grant said to BoxingScene.com.

"It's really going to be tough for him. He has to make a decision and fight one of the Klitschkos in the next six months. He already has 41 fights so he already has wear and tear on his body, and now he wants to fight heavyweights. Adamek basically has good feet, where he can get off with punches and is able to move out of the way. He couldn't stand in there with me power for power."

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