Golota's Legacy - How good was he really?

Golota had excellent physical ability, and size. He was an athlete. Solid power. A so-so chin. And terrible medial fortitude. Golota never beat anyone good, he always folded or fouled. His stamina in the later rounds wasn't very good either.

 

Golota had more talent and ability than many guys that held the crown. He had height 6-4 with quick hands and coordination for throwing combinations. He was well schooled as you watch the film you`ll see him always finish his combos with that nice snappy left hook. He moved well enough for a man that big. He was can`t miss except in boxing no such thing exists. It is an un-natural thing to get punched in the face for a living. If it was easy everyone would it.

 

You know how people say boxing is 90 percent mental?

Golota was 100 percent mental.

 

Rummy very good; I did not know a lot of this detail.
But I was surprised to judge that I cannot tell if Golata would have won the Bowe rematch without earlier low blows, though everyone seems to think he would have.
Do you think he could have won without them?

 

bowe was running out of gas. golota was beating him badly. fight would have ended by stoppage or knock out.

 

He was a much better fighter than the likes of another 6'4 heavyweight who coincidentally fought just last night called Joseph Parker. Said fighter pretends to have a good jab and is admired by fans and the media alike for his "ability" with the punch, but I'll tell you right now I've never seen him do anything half as impressive with the jab as what I saw a supposed squandered potential head case in Andrew Golota do several times.

Heavyweight boxing seems to of changed a lot, even from the 90's until now. It's just a little bit alarming.

 

by changed do you mean the boxers are not as skilled or is it just the style of fighting. To be honest the heavyweight division bores me these days. There is some spark now with Wilder and Johsua but it is sad.

 

It's less exciting, the match ups less competitive on the whole with the top matches taking forever to occur. I don't see anyone fighting now to be a talent on the level of a fighter like Riddick Bowe, who even made Eddie Futch sit up and take notice. It wasn't long ago that we had a cruiserweight good enough to dominate his own division and then move up and dominate the heavyweight division as well. Now we merely have guys like Usyk and Gassiev, giants with tremendous size advantages at cruiserweight who merely flirt with and talk about the idea of moving up....

 

I see the same thing. It`s like the division is boxing`s version of SPAM.

 

Bowe was getting his ears boxed off. Golota mastered him except for one thing. Bowe wouldn`t quit. He kept getting up and fighting and that freaked Andrew Golota out. Golota just wasnt able to deal with that kind of pressure. The Michael Grant fight confirmed that he was`nt gonna be able to be a champion.

 

As a fan it makes you want to bang your ****in' head against a wall, it's terrible.

 

Its all relative. We thought the `80s was kind of depressing because some of those guys wouldn`t train and would lay on each other for 15 rounds. Those guys could fight though. I didn`t care for Lennox Lewis because I thought his style was a bit boring then Wlad came along. He made Lennox look like Gatti.

 

Some people aren't comfortable with success and purposefully sabotage themselves in order to avoid it.

 

Galota was seriously injured:

 

Very detailed job. Well done .. you have smooch overall insight I would have liked your thoughts as to why he did what he did vs Bowe twice and the quitting against Grant and Tyson ( the injury exactly ) and some the back story about what he got involved with on his 2002 return trouble in Poland as I'm sure there is a ton of Golata out of the ring info .. I guess you did so well I want more .. !!!