***The Official Golota Express! Bowe-Golota II - 19 years ago today***

The decision is pretty much made for him.

It's clear he can't pull the trigger anymore,Mariola doesn't want him fighting anymore.

He himself acknowledged he prolly will retire.

 

3rd?

Now your being generous...

Golota has more comebacks than a Yo Momma joke..

 

Trained twice as hard for 3-4 wks? He needed a good full 2 months to get in shape & Adamek still would have blitzed him.

 

Well..I haven't posted in here since the fight but......its been a wild and crazy ride but I think its safe to say its over for Golota (although I have said this MANNNNY times in the past) but this time I 100% beleive it. In the past I was ok with him coming back because I thought he had a chance but now...no way. I don't want to see him again just for the fact that I don't want to see him get hurt. He has had a great career, made a crap load of money (which I think and hope he hasn't blown), and his legacy as one of the craziest, exciting, unpredictable fighters to ever lace them up is certainly in tact. Nothing left to prove Andy..hang em up!


Golota will always have a place in my heart....I got into this great sport because of HIM (and Gatti....RIP)! I'll never forget the mid-late 90's, then the early part of this decade where he certainly redeemed himself. Wish he retired after the Mollo fight but...if he had to go out against anyone....I think its fitting that he passed the torch to the next best Polish fighter in Adamek. I just wish Golota could realize this...which I know he doesn't!

 

Right on AG11

 

Let's hope this is just a rumour, because that "sucker" has already outstripped him in every boxing attribute imaginable.

 

I don't mind believing that statement about training. We all thought Andrew would train his balls off because of the importantce of this fight and his underdog status. We had doubts when we learned about his weight, but this could just be due to his advanced age and he probably failed to take his cardio workouts seriously. Couple that with good Polish eating and you're guaranteed to put on a few. But as far as sparring and weight training, Golota probably gave it all he got. The sad reality is that his skills have deteriorated so profoundly and permanently that he could train as hard as Rocky Balboa and still look like crap in the ring. This deterioration began most visibly in the Bates fight. We just thought he was temporarily rusty against a tomato can opponent, but did not realize that this fight was a sign of his irreversible decline.

 

Just wait when Gol doesn't retire and proves this all wrong. artya

 

Ha ha jokes. I agree with what Sam Colona says though:


"I personally believe that this should have been his last fight. He's almost 42 years old. Andrew is like family to me and I don't want to see someone hurt him."


Yes, we revere Andrew and its sad to see these words. But who would know Golota better, his current limitations and remaining prospects at HW, than his trainer of many, many years. I always viewed Colona as a realist and appreciate his sometimes brutal honesty. If this was Steve Smogger or someone like him reffing the last fight, Golota could have been injured.

 

Was Adamek's behavior after the fight at all discussed? Because there are many threads about it on Polish portals.

Thats really reaching. Adamek has been nothing but class all along, you need to cut him some slack. This is the Adamek Era, sadly Golota era has ended awhile ago.

Adamek after the fight went to the four corners of the ring to thank the fans. When he went to Golota's corner he ignored him completely and shoved him aside to get into that corner. He showed Golota no respect whatsoever. His post fight interview was also terrible.

This is not the way I saw it. After the fight Adamek came over, attempted a hug but Andrew did not turnaround, so he passed him and waved to the fans.

 

So that's probably the same as blaming who was more responsible
for not fighting each-other: Jones or DM?

It was obvious long time before the fight that Golota is pissed off on
Adamek's public comments about him hanging out with unidentified nice
looking ladies. SO the fight was personal for Golota and Adamek knew
about that the whole time. So why people are expecting that they will
suddenly become friends again and will hug each other right after the fight?

The bad blood is between them for a long time and Adamk is the one who
is responsible for initiate this, and he never tried to get things better.
This is somehow strange knowing how much Golota did for him when he
start his fights in US.

I personally think Adamek is now all over the big money and he will sell anybody around him
(.... friends, trainer, wife, mother) if that will bring him more bucks.
Its hard to blame him but there is plenty of room to dislike his personality and behavior.

 

:huh

And I think you're totally blowing this out of proporion and interpreting Adamek's behaviour in this way only because he fought and beat Golota. Adamek really did not do anything bad or dumb. Maybe, just maybe we have slight evidence of impoliteness on his part, thats all. If anything, the only person who made dumb, explicit comments was Golota, by calling Adamek a sucker after the fight.

fyi: It was Rozalski who helped Adamek, not Golota.

 

Nah man, he wasn't even looking at Andrew, he just shoved him aside to jump on the ropes. He was class all along except for the ending and that's when showing class is most important.




You know guys, it's true that the whole situation was probably noticed only by the oversensitive Golota fans. But the fact of the matter is most of the fans in the arena were there for Golota and with that fight Adamek intended to take the torch from Andrew and become the no.1 in the hearts of the fans.

Now, I'm not saying Adamek is a classless *******; Golota acted like a dick too, but in the end even that could be played to Adamek's advantage. Imagine if Adamek tried to talk to Golota and Golota would just refuse to talk to him, push him away or something. That would really help Adamek popularity-wise as then not only would he have easily beaten Golota but also shown he's the more classy guy. He blew that chance.

 

I agree. Adamek should go to Golota and shake his hand. I think that because Adamek is very religious person, so he should be the first to forgive faults. I still like Adamek and respect him a lot, but he should have done it just after the fight. But this is only a detail and its not worth to talk about this anymore :good

 

I don't know about that. Things have changed pretty rapidly in the last 5 years,in terms of their popularity, even in Poland. I don't know what the average person thinks or what a poll's outcome would be in terms of their popularity, but Adamek has been receiving a lot more media coverage than Golota recently.

Yeah, I agree with that. Which makes me think none of this was planned. Both men probably assumed that the other would come to shake hands and when that didn't happen they were mutually insulted.