Adamek to return on September 8th in daytime PPV

Former Light Heavyweight & Cruiserweight champion turned Heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek will jump right back in the ring on September 8th at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey as he will headline an afternoon Pay Per View to accomadate Polish television according to Dan Rafael of espn.com

No opponent has been announced but it will not a rematch with Eddie Chambers. Chambers lost a close unanimous decision to Adamek on June 16th. Chambers is due to have surgery on his left bicep which hurt in the first round of the June 16th bout.

“At the end of the first round, I felt something rip,” Chambers said Thursday. “I remember thinking, ‘Hey, that didn’t feel right.’ It turns out that I tore a tendon that connects my bicep to the bone. I am having surgery on Monday to repair that.

“Once I have the surgery, I will do physical therapy for about two months. I will keep in shape physically, you know, running, and anything that doesn’t require the upper body, etc., just to stay in shape and to stay ready so that once I get back it’s not going to take as long to get ready for fighting. I want to get back into a fight as soon as I possibly can after that.”

“Tomasz wanted to stay active and we wanted to try out the pay-per-view in Poland again,” said promoter Kathy Duva. “We discussed with Ziggy and Tomasz about trying to do it for the June 16 fight, but that fight was on NBC (Sports Net) in the United States (at night), which is like 4 or 5 in the morning in Poland, so that didn’t work for a pay-per-view over there.

“So we decided it might be worth trying to do one of these shows with Tomasz in Newark in the afternoon. He wants to fight in the U.S. and work at rebuilding his audience here.”