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Tomasz Adamek KOs Andrew Golota

Oct 25, 2009 – 1:13 AM
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Lem Satterfield

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Tomasz AdamekIBF cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek scored knockdowns in the first and fifth rounds of Saturday night's clash with former three-time heavyweight title challenger Andrew Golota on the way to stopping his larger rival in five at the Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland.

A native of Zywiec, Poland, who lives in Jersey City, Adamek rose to 39-1 with his 27th knockout and his eighth consecutive victory -- his sixth by stoppage.

Adamek, who weighed 214 pounds to 256 for Golota (41-8-1, 33 KOS), suffered his last loss in February 2007, when he lost his WBC light heavyweight (175 pounds) title to Chad Dawson.

Golota, 41, is a native of Warsaw who lives in Chicago.

Adamek, 32, is making the rise to heavyweight from 200 pounds, where he won the IBF cruiserweight title by split-decision over Steve Cunningham, and defending it twice.

In victory, Adamek could become an attractive fight for the winner of the Roy Jones-Bernard Hopkins bout that could take place in early 2010, one of the heavyweight champion Klitschko brothers, Wladimir or Vitali, or Russian heavyweight titlist Nikolay Valuev.
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