IBF 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.
