Golota would beat both Klitschkos

Donell Nicholson and a 40 year old Tim Witherspoon were Golata's best wins.

 

When Samson Pa'houa frustrates your game plan... then you really don't have much of a game plan to begin with.

 

Riddick Bowe was a diminished fighter by 1996 who had struggled mightily with conditioning issues in recent times, took a lot of damage from the Holyfield trilogy and no longer had Eddie Futch in his corner.. Throughout both his meetings with Golata, he suffered multiple low blows which took their toll on his performance as the fight went on. For anyone who's never been punched or kicked in the balls before, even ONCE can disable you for several minutes.. Now imagine taking as many as FOUR shots to the nuts by a 240 lbs professional boxer.... You get the idea.. All this and Bowe still landed some good punches and even decked Andrew in one of their fights.. His career was finished after those bouts. Golata was stopped in ONE round in his next bout with Lewis and for the rest of his career never truly defeated a noteworthy opponent...... The end...

 

Waldo had enough of a game plan to rule the division for about a decade. Range through footwork and an ATG jab, strength in the clinch and power. It was a hell of a game plan, if not the most entertaining. Thank Manny, I guess.

 

How exactly did Riddick Bowe "shatter" Golata's confidence? Because the officials wouldn't tolerate his cheating ?

 

Once he started eating jabs and 1-2's by Vitality or Wlad... he'd refuse to come out for the next round. He would call it a day by round 5 if he's not knocked out by then

 

Seamus saved me some typing:

"I never understood the Golota phenomenon. I know he looked like a monster in the gym but in the ring he tended to look timid and easily flustered. For all his alleged power, he seemed to push his punches and lacked speed or snap. I'm sure they still hurt but they seemed to lack the dynamism of Wlad's shots. And he was miles, miles and miles, behind Vitali in terms of ring generalship and ring IQ."

It could be that Golota and Bowe ruined each other. Maybe in some other universe Golota was really as good as he seemed in that fight and cleaned up HW. Unfortunately in this universe he rattled of a series of sub-par performances that leave me in no doubt that either Klitschko would have destroyed him. There's not really another way to look at it, based on resume especially.

 

Bowe managed to do some serious damage to him in the second fight. That's after Golota put a shellacking on Bowe. It does something to a fighter's confidence when a guy that by all rights should stay down doesn't, and when a fighter discovers that he too is vulnerable to the heavy artillery. That's my theory, anyway.

 

Okay, then he was ruined because one fighter who he was already beating the shlt out of gave him some resistance. Does anyone think this guy should have chosen a different profession?

 

He should have stuck with bouncing?

I actually quite like the Golota I saw against Bowe.

Pity I never saw that Golota again. Anyway, he doesn't beat the Klitschkos. Noddafuk.

 

I couldn't stand the constant low blows. I mean everyone lands at least one punch below the belt at some point in their careers. It happens accidentally sometimes.. But FOUR in a single fight? that was bull**** and you have to think that some of those were intentional.