Golota's Jab vs Lennox's Jab

Yeah!:hi: You sent me a message on Facebook saying you heard Golota is going to fight a rematch with Donnell Nicholson??? Where did you hear this? Very hard to believe!!!

 

Golota definitely had a first class jab but it doesn't and can't compare to Lewis'. Lewis used his jab to its full effect successfully against all of his opponents. Golota hasn't been able to do that and is rarely consistent with it due to his psychological issues.

 

Lewis threw six or seven different types of jab. Golota jabbed one way and only one way. It was a good jab but....

And this fight was about the overhand right. Golota always seemed to have trouble with those.

 

Discussing Golota's jab? Now i've seen it all....

 

Bingo.

Using Bowe as a measuring stick. Every Bowe opponent hit him. You could make a case for Pierre Coetzer punches based on his Bowe fight.

But that doesn't mean it is true.

The other big fatal flaw Golata made was bringing that hand back slow after jabbing. Didn't they watch the Ruddock fight? He leaves a window. Bowe threw wide looping right hands so it wasn't easy for him to exploit that opening, but that's Riddick. That's a big opening for a guy like Lewis.

Wrong guy to jab with. Golata maybe should have used that left hand for parrying ? or kept it up a few inches higher. But he really didn't do that and I sure don't think Bloodworth is/was going to ingrain that into him during pre-fight preperations. He was in a very difficult position and the things that worked on Bowe did not automatically translate to working on this guy.

Plus, he was fighting a guy that knew how to exploit and knew how to finish. Tough tough assignment and I thought anyway, the worst guy for Golata to fight.

 

Lewis was a killer.

 

Lewis had the more effective, versatile jab which he could use to control distance, measure his right hand or to push fighters back.

Golota's was good and pretty fast but I couldn't compare it to Lewis'.

Regarding Bowe; he was the very definition of a shot fighter in the second Golota fight. That term is thrown around far too much these days - whenever a fighter has a bad performance, looks less convincing than usual or, god forbid, loses. If you want to see what a shot fighter really is, look at Bowe in that rematch.

Bowe had no balance whatsoever - he couldn't throw a punch without looking like he was going to fall over. No coordination, no timing - nothing. All he had was heart.

Golota's jab may have looked good in that fight but you can't use it as any sort of barometer.

 

Golota was at the peak of his hype after the two Bowe beatdowns. Against a man with porous defense like Bowe, Golota's hard jab looked like a million bucks compared to Lennox who until that point threw mostly just a pawing rangefinder jab to set up right hands.

Also at that point Lewis' image was still in the process of being rebuilt after McCall knocked him out so he wasn't viewed as the dominant force he would be after the fight.

HBO did however mess up the reach stat. Lennox should have been 84 inches and Golota 82 inches.