It’s by no means a certainty that the boxing weight scale implies that a fighter is or isn’t in form, however the excellent news for Polish-American heavyweight Adam Kownacki on the Friday weigh-in for this Saturday bout at Barclays Heart in Brooklyn, NY is that he’s lightest he’s been for any of his fights in 5 years.
Kownack and opponent Ali Eren Demirezen stepped on the scales mid-day previous to their co-feature fight on the Showtime Boxing/Premier Boxing Champions card in New York,
Heavyweight showdown units the stage 😈@AKbabyface | #KownackiDemirezen #GarciaBenavidez Weigh-In 👉 https://t.co/0gTlke2zcT pic.twitter.com/5DhVbTc8bj
— SHOWTIME Boxing (@ShowtimeBoxing) July 29, 2022
Kownacki checked in at 251 lb., significantly lighter than has two losses to Robert Helenius. The second of which in Las Vegas final October, he was 258 lb. for his second straight TKO loss to Helenius. Nonetheless, of their first struggle in March of 2020 (additionally a TKO defeat), he was 265 lb. And, actually, it’s important to return to July 2017 KO win over Artur Spilka, when Kownacki weighed lower than Friday, as he was 242 lb. that evening.
Regardless of the excellent news on the burden, Saturday is a vital second for the 33 yr outdated Kownacki. That is because of the defeats to the veteran Helenius that clearly halted Kownacki’s “push” Premier Boxing Champions to a doable title shot. The primary got here in gorgeous vogue on a 4th spherical TKO in entrance of Kownacki’s 1000’s of followers on the identical Barclays Heart in March 2020. That bout noticed him down a number of occasions and out on his ft from Helenius’ punching energy.
Publish-Covid 19 pandemic and the shutdown of the game in 2020, the fighters and PBC put collectively the rematch on the undercard of the third Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder bout in Vegas. And, that was a lot of the identical as Helenius battered Kownacki, knocking him down again and stopping him, again, in the 6th spherical this time.
Hear us preview Kownacki’s newest bout on the “Huge Battle Weekend Preview” by clicking play under,
So, that brings us to Saturday evening and Eren Demirezen, 16-1, 12 KOs, who weighed 262 lb. on Friday. That weight is consistent with what he’s weighted for every of his final 5 bouts.
Will the Turk, who lives and trains in Germany, do what Helenius was capable of do and easily out-slug and overwhelm Kownacki? And regardless of Kownacki having lived within the New York/New Jersey space since his teenage years and there being a big Polish inhabitants in these areas, will Eren Demirezen spoil all of it at Barclays Heart?
The speaking and weight checks are over.
