Author: MAIN EVENTS
ELLEN HALEY
Date: 2/7/2010
Tomas Adamek Scores Unanimous Decision over
Jason Estrada
In front of an exuberant crowd of 10,123
predominantly Adamek Fans, Tomasz Adamek defeated Jason Estrada in a 12 Round
decision, to retain the IBF Heavyweight International Heavyweight title. The
official scores were 115-113, 116-112 and 118-110, all in favor of Adamek.
POST FIGHT QUOTES FROM JASON
ESTRADA:
“If
everyone in this room were completely honest with themselves you would all admit
that I got robbed. I mean I got played. I might as well have had a gun pointed
to my head”
“At best I give Adamek three of the twelve
rounds. I seriously think the last judge doesn’t need to judge
anymore”
“Yeah I’m angry. I fought my a_ _ off. I trained harder than I ever have. I was
in the best shape I’ve ever been in. People talked about me possibly running out
of gas, but I never did. All he (Adamek) did was
run”.
“If I learned one thing tonight it was that
I can’t go into anyone’s hometown to fight. What do I have to do bring a
gun?”.
QUOTES FROM TOMASZ
ADAMEK:
“It
was the best Jason Estrada I’ve ever seen in my life. He was 50 percent better today, than he
when he fought a top three heavyweight like Aleksander Powietkin. Quick, with a
good defense and a very hard head. It was extremely difficult to locate precise
punches, because of his defense. Maybe, I should have use more than three
punches combination, maybe risk a little more? I wanted to do it, but my trainer
Andrzej Gmitruk was telling me all the time in the corner to be more boxer than
puncher, avoid his punches first, then use different temp to throw him of his
strategy. It was another test in heavyweight division, versus very difficult to
fight boxer”.
“I was hit couple of times hard, sure – but
this is a part of boxing. But none of his punches made me change my tactics or
get sacred, not at all. I knew he didn’t have a knockout
punch”.
“I
weighed 220 pounds for this fight, probably an ideal weight for me, I was
prepared for 12 rounds, and pretty early in the fight I realized this is what
would happen. So I had to conserve more energy, maybe be less aggressive than in
my previous fights”.
“I don’t even want to get into these Jason
assumptions that he was robbed. I think I won by four, maybe five points. My trainer Andrzej Gmitruk wanted me to
be more boxer than puncher, was screaming at me in the corner. But how can I
fight differently when I have a 10,000 of my red and white fans screaming for me
to do just that? They pay good money to see entertaining fight, not some boring,
slow guys throwing 10 punches a round”.
“I have couple of words for those who are
saying that I cannot fight Arreola because he is a much better puncher than
Estrada. First of all every fight is different, and anyone who knows about
boxing can say “Estrada hit him, but Arreola will do the same, and harder”. We
don’t know that. Maybe it will be easier for me to avoid punches from Arreola,
and maybe it will be easier for me to hit him! We just don’t know, but won’t it
be interesting to see”. (Photos: ED MULHOLLAND - MAIN
EVENTS)
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