After a last-minute disaster scrapped their planned meeting on January 31st, WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames and hard-hitting contender Austin “Ammo” Williams are once again scheduled to meet this Saturday in Orlando.
Bad Left Hook will have LIVE coverage of the card starting at 8:00 pm ET.
Adames (24-1-1. 18 KO) hasn’t seen action since a controversial draw with Hamzah Sheeraz in February 2025, which extended his unbeaten streak to seven since a 2019 upset loss to Patrick Teixeira. Williams (20-1, 13 KO) has rebounded from his own defeat at the hands of Sheeraz with four consecutive wins, the most recent a decision over last-second replacement Wendy Toussaint on that same January show.
Can “Bronco” shake off a year of rust and re-establish himself as a top dog at 160, or will Williams finally live up to early expectations?
Who will win Adames vs Ammo?
For my money, this is what it boils down to: Williams’ style demands that he be the boss and I don’t think he can do that against “Bronco.”
What I mean by that is that there doesn’t seem to be a ton of nuance to Williams’ movement. He mixes his body and head attacks well, but tends to attack in straight lines with rapid-fire combinations. On top of that, his feet stop moving when he commits to long flurries. That’s fine when he can cow his opponent with power and output, but it also means his head and body are there for the taking if said opponent can mix it up with him.
By all accounts, Adames fits that bill. He looks like the bigger hitter of the two and can match Williams’ jab to boot. On top of that, he’s got better head movement than Williams and isn’t as static when he throws. Even if Williams does manage to set the tone early, the exchanges are going to tilt more and more in Adames’ favor as he lands clean and avoids the worst of what Williams sends his way.
That’s not to say Adames is any sort of defensive mastermind, of course. He has a noteworthy tendency to over-extend that let Terrell Gausha hold his own throughout their fight. Between Williams’ aggression and aforementioned bad footwork habits, though, he just strikes me as far less likely to properly manage distance than Gausha did.
This is all moot if Adames can’t properly juice himself down to 160, of course, but I’ll be an optimist and say that he makes it to the ring intact, wears Williams down with heavy counters and body work, and finally puts him on the canvas sometime in the second half of the fight.
Prediction: Carlos Adames by eighth-round TKO
