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Carlos Adames vs. Austin 'Ammo' Williams Keys to Victory: Breaking down tactics of each fighter
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Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams has won four fights over a 14-month span to get to this point.
Tonight, at Caribe Royale Orlando in Orlando, Florida, and live on DAZN, he will have a chance to become world champion in the biggest fight of his career in challenging WBC middleweight titleholder Carlos Adames.
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Williams (20-1, 13 KOs) was supposed to clash with Adames as part of the Teofimo Lopez-Shakur Stevenson card on January 31, but the champion fell ill and the bout was cancelled a day before.
Instead, ‘Ammo’ used the platform at Madison Square Garden in New York City to defeat Wendy Toussaint on points. Meanwhile, Adames (24-1-1, 18 KOs) has not fought since battling Hamzah Sheeraz to a draw in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia back in February 2025.
Will Adames be dominant in yet another title defense? Or will Williams achieve a dream of becoming a world champion in an upset? With the stakes escalating, DAZN News offers the Keys to Victory for both the champ and challenger.
Carlos Adames’ Keys to Victory
Alternate between the head and body
Carlos Adames does a pointed job of alternating between the head and body with thudding shots to get going.
Whether it’s a power jab or stab to the body, each blow lands with oomph from the WBC middleweight world champion who then begins to string together heavier-handed shots.
Piece together combinations in bursts
Arguably his greatest strength, Adames has a penchant of piecing together combinations in bursts and he does it with timing and varied shot selection, making him all the more a load to deal with in the ring.
Doing this against Williams could force the challenger on the back foot with judges scoring rounds in Adames’ favor.
Apply constant pressure early, build volume
Adames would be aided by generating constant forward-fighting pressure.
The alternating between head and body and piecing together combinations are part of that puzzle. Reaching a high volume is too.
At times, Adames does not get started early enough. His fight against Hamzah Sheeraz showed that. Against a solid challenger like Williams, the Dominican fighter must apply pressure early and steadily drive his punching volume up.
Cranking it way up will give Adames his best shot of retaining his title.
Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams’ Keys to Victory
Assert reach advantage with the jab
Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams touts a five-inch reach advantage that he should assert with the jab in this championship fight.
Doing this could keep Carlos’ Adames’ stalking at bay over sequences of the bout, allowing the challenger to score valuable points along the way.
Move head off the center line
This key might be the most crucial to Williams’ upset chances in that he must move his head off the center line.
Watch Williams enough and it is apparent that he is a bit stiff with his upper body movement, often leaving him susceptible to a right hand.
A potent puncher like Adames will feast on a stationary target, putting the onus on the challenger to slip and show head movement off the center line.
Unload the left hand
Williams is expecting action-packed fireworks and his left hand might be his most explosive weapon to bring into that fray.
If Williams can detonate and land the shot with speed in cramped quarters, he will further his chances to hear “and the new WBC middleweight world champion” accompany his name by the fight’s end.
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