“Vitali Klitschko needed to fight Odlanier Solis to be prepared for smaller, quicker fighters – like me. Three minutes in the ring did not help WBC champ at all. Maybe this is why his manager wants to have him fight again, in June, just three months before our scheduled fight in Poland. But I wonder if this will actually happen”-said Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28 KOs), preparing for his upcoming fight against Kevin McBride (35-8, 29 KOs) in Pennsylvania and sharing his thoughts about what happened in Cologne and why upcoming months will decide which Klitschko brother he will fight in his native country.

Three time heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis suggested that even though Vitali had no problem hitting Odlanier Solis during their three minute affair in Cologne, you could tell that the WBC champion isn’t getting any younger.

Vitali didn’t spend enough time in the ring to say anything conclusive, but his reflexes when Solis tried some combinations were a little bit off. I have to wait my turn to see it first hand, in the ring.

Vitali was always a defensively minded fighter, knowing that with his size and weight he will never be a boxing ballerina.

This is his style, but in Cologne, Solis tried — somewhat successfully – work around his outstretched left hand and avoid his quick strikes from the right, although Solis’ punches never cleanly connected. I’m faster than Odlanier, I have a completely different way of moving in the ring and nothing big will change until September. In both mine and Vitali’s style of fighting.

Vitali can still hit, and this element of boxing is the last one that goes with age. But could a punch like that, (just a quick strike, glancing first the glove and then the top of Solis’ head), have such a devastating consequence?

I strongly doubt it. I agree that that punch could possibly make him stagger, but not completely take his legs like we witnessed during the telecast from Germany. It was an injury that ended this fight, not “Dr Ironfist’s” unreal power. Nothing sinister here, just an injury. This is why I always put so much attention to all-around physical fitness — every part of your body should be perfectly trained if you want to compete at this level. You just have to have a top specialist on your side working with your head trainer, like in my case Roger Bloodworth works with Tyler Woodman. There must have been something wrong with Odlanier before – such a career-threatening injury seldom happens without some warning signals. If that was the case, Solis’ team should have rescheduled the fight until Odlanier was 100 percent. Only once in 2005 against WBC light heavyweight champion Paul Briggs did I decide to hide my injury, fighting 12 rounds with a broken nose a couple of weeks earlier. No way will I do that again.

Hopefully Solis will be fine, but in the end nothing has changed, the Klitschko brothers versus you and David Haye.

I read somewhere, that after what happened in Cologne, only me or David could rescue the heavyweight division. I’m ready to do it. The second half of 2011 looks like great fun for all boxing fans around the world!

Were you surprised with how quickly Klitschko’s manager announced that Vitali will fight again, most possibly in June, before he fights you again in September in Poland?

Vitali needed Solis’s fight to be prepared for smaller, quicker fighters – like me. Three minutes in the ring did not help WBC champ at all. Maybe this is why his manager wants to have him fight again, in June, just three months before our scheduled fight in Poland. But I wonder if that will actually happen. If Klitschko and Solis had a 12-round fight, we would have never heard about June. Now – if Vitali wants to fight in June – he would have to start another training camp in couple of weeks. Then the fight, a really short break, and again back to the camp, because of our September fight? He’s a 40-year old fighter? My team is not surprised – our contract states that we have to know by July 2,which one of the brothers I will fight. What they are doing before July 2, is not my business. I still believe that Vitali will be the man I will face in Poland.

Could you fight earlier, if Vitali’s plans to fight in June do not work out?

No big deal, I could do it. My next fight against Kevin McBride is just around the corner, on April 9. This is my task on hand and the only task I can control. I will have a couple of 10-round sparring sessions, and then we will start making everything come together. Zero stress and quiet work in Poconos Mountains.

Forgetting upcoming media onslaught during open training session?

The toughest part of the fighters job is to hide what you really want to do during the actual fight when cameras are rolling (laughing)!