Sounds like this was not a cake walk for Adamek.
http://www.northjersey.com/sports/83743857...tough_test.htmlTomasz Adamek withstands tough test in unanimous decision win over Jason Estrada
Sunday, February 7, 2010
BY KEITH IDEC
The Record
STAFF WRITER
0 Comments NEWARK — Jason Estrada tested Tomasz Adamek in the popular Polish contender's second heavyweight fight Saturday night.
He gave Adamek everything fellow Pole Andrew Golota could not during Adamek's impressive heavyweight debut, a fifth-round technical knockout win Oct. 24 in Lodz, Poland. Adamek withstood Estrada's challenge, though, to win a unanimous decision and retain the International Boxing Federation's International title before an Adamek-crazed crowd of 10,123 at Prudential Center.
Judge Steve Weisfeld, a Fair Lawn native and a River Vale resident, scored Adamek a 115-113 winner in what was a competitive fight. Judge Joseph Pasquale credited Adamek with a wider win, 116-112.
The third judge, Lawrence Layton, had Adamek ahead by a much larger margin than the back-and-forth action in the ring indicated (118-110).
Adamek was the busier boxer throughout the bout, but Estrada stalked him for much of the 12 rounds. Estrada often landed left hooks and overhand rights that at times seemed more damaging than Adamek's flurries and body punches.
Neither fighter ever appeared on the verge of going down, however, as both boxers displayed good chins after absorbing numerous power punches.
The 33-year-old Adamek, a Kearny resident raised in Gilowice, Poland, improved to 40-1. Estrada, a 2004 Olympian from Providence, R.I., fell to 16-3.
The victory likely will lead Adamek into an HBO bout against heavyweight contender Cristobal Arreola (28-1, 25 KOs) on April 24. Little Falls' Kathy Duva, whose Totowa-based Main Events co-promotes Adamek, wants to bring the Arreola-Adamek match to Prudential Center, but it could end up in Ontario, Calif., near Arreola's hometown.
The 6-foot-4, 250-pound Arreola, of Riverside, Calif., is slower and worse defensively than Estrada. He also is a much bigger puncher than Estrada, which could lead to trouble if Adamek cannot affect Arreola with any of his punches.
In the co-featured fight Saturday night, New York's Peter Quillin (21-0, 15 KOs) easily out-pointed Ecuador's Fernando Zuniga (28-10, 20 KOs) in a 10-round super middleweight match.
DOUGLIN, FARRELL WIN: Denis Douglin, a middleweight prospect from Morganville, remained unbeaten on the undercard by out-pointing Seattle's Eddie Hunter in a six-round fight.
Douglin, who improved to 7-0, won 59-55, 60-54, 60-54 on the scorecards.
Earlier Saturday night, Patrick Farrell, a cruiserweight prospect from Jersey City, defeated New York's Jon Schneider by unanimous decision in a four-rounder.
Farrell, who trains at the Passaic PAL boxing gym, improved to 5-0.
RODRIGUEZ TAKES TITLE: Julian Rodriguez, a freshman at Westwood High School, won the 125-pound championship for fighters ages 14 and 15 at the National Silver Gloves tournament Saturday in Independence, Mo.
NEWARK — Jason Estrada tested Tomasz Adamek in the popular Polish contender's second heavyweight fight Saturday night.
He gave Adamek everything fellow Pole Andrew Golota could not during Adamek's impressive heavyweight debut, a fifth-round technical knockout win Oct. 24 in Lodz, Poland. Adamek withstood Estrada's challenge, though, to win a unanimous decision and retain the International Boxing Federation's International title before an Adamek-crazed crowd of 10,123 at Prudential Center.
Judge Steve Weisfeld, a Fair Lawn native and a River Vale resident, scored Adamek a 115-113 winner in what was a competitive fight. Judge Joseph Pasquale credited Adamek with a wider win, 116-112.
The third judge, Lawrence Layton, had Adamek ahead by a much larger margin than the back-and-forth action in the ring indicated (118-110).
Adamek was the busier boxer throughout the bout, but Estrada stalked him for much of the 12 rounds. Estrada often landed left hooks and overhand rights that at times seemed more damaging than Adamek's flurries and body punches.
Neither fighter ever appeared on the verge of going down, however, as both boxers displayed good chins after absorbing numerous power punches.
The 33-year-old Adamek, a Kearny resident raised in Gilowice, Poland, improved to 40-1. Estrada, a 2004 Olympian from Providence, R.I., fell to 16-3.
The victory likely will lead Adamek into an HBO bout against heavyweight contender Cristobal Arreola (28-1, 25 KOs) on April 24. Little Falls' Kathy Duva, whose Totowa-based Main Events co-promotes Adamek, wants to bring the Arreola-Adamek match to Prudential Center, but it could end up in Ontario, Calif., near Arreola's hometown.
The 6-foot-4, 250-pound Arreola, of Riverside, Calif., is slower and worse defensively than Estrada. He also is a much bigger puncher than Estrada, which could lead to trouble if Adamek cannot affect Arreola with any of his punches.
In the co-featured fight Saturday night, New York's Peter Quillin (21-0, 15 KOs) easily out-pointed Ecuador's Fernando Zuniga (28-10, 20 KOs) in a 10-round super middleweight match.