Golota Fans

He is entertaining,he was good,should have been champion and is polish.Nuff said.

 

Being a Golota fan you were on an emotional rollercoaster along with Golota himself.

He isnt like other fighters, and doesnt have fans like other fighters. Golota fans have been there and done that, through better or worse, especially with Golota, which just makes them bigger fans.

Huge talent, one of the most talented fighters of the 90s. Good chin, great skill, speed, and techinical ability, always was in shape, great power, and always put on a hell of a show, whether he won or lost.

Two time unofficial HW champion in the Byrd and Ruiz debacles. If he only had it all right in the head..

 

It just means that there are many Polish fans around and people like controversy, Golota offered that a lot, either by getting KO'd in a round or by his lowblows and the riot from the Bowe fight.

Also, I do agree that he was robbed against Byrd and Ruiz but would assume politics had to be involved here as I don't see how they would allow someone in Golota's resume/record/history to be remembered as a former champion. Then again you have a first class tomato can and fraud in Valuev holding a belt.

 

What in my oppinion matters as well is that he've had relatively little talent, especially in the Heavyweight division. I am polish too and we never had the chance to watch any good world class polish boxer shine in the US and make us pride. I've been following Golota's career very carefully and although he has given us some moments of shame and embarassment he also fueled us with pride at times and it's a real shame he never won the HW crown which he ondoubtedly deserved. After his disappointing clash with Austin he should call it quits though.

 

Of course. Here you go.

Heavyweight division has always been the most important, exciting division where you could make the most money. Andrew Golota entered the big stage in 1996 when he faced the #1 heavyweight Riddick Big Daddy Bowe. In a televised bout Andrew Golota outboxed and had Bowe hurt multiple times in the fight. The bout ended in controversy as Andrew Golota was disqualified for low blows and the huge riot errupted, so there you go, already Andrew Golota made a huge entrance into the boxing main stream. He showed the public that he was better than the #1 Riddick Bowe, he was involved in the exiting fight full of drama at MSG and the big riot happened shown in every news in the world.

Next came the rematch with Riddick Bowe. Again Andrew Golota beat the crap out of Bowe, again the fight was exciting, again it was full of drama with multiple knockdowns both ways, again came the disqualification.

Then came the title fight with Lennox Lewis lost KO1. He showed the public for the first time that apart from great boxing skills he is mentally weak, adding the unpredictability factor to his future fights.

Then he won some fights against lesser known opponents, most notibly Tim Witherspoon and Corey Sanders in an exciting fight where blood was all over the ring and on judges scorecards.

Next he fought Micheal Grant the undefeated musclular 6'7 prospect who was supposed to be the future of the HW division. Golota dropped him in the 1st twice and outboxed him most of the fight until his mental colapse came and refised to continue. Later on Grant lost to Lennox Lewis but it was this fight that Golota exposed Micheal Grant.

Next was the Mike Tyson fight were Golota was knocked down in the 2nd round and quit.

Then he fought Chris Byrd and John Ruiz 2 controversial fights where most people though Golota deserved to win. Those were 2 title fights so Golota was arguably the unified IBF WBA uncrowned champ. Both fights were exciting taking into account that Byrd and Ruiz are boring fighters with boring styles who were involved in some of the most boring fights in boxing history, Golota made these 2 fights exciting, had Ruiz on the canvas twice and made Byrd touch the canvas with his glove multiple times.

Then came the low points in his career against Brewster and Austin.

Altogether Andrew Golota was involved in big fights, exciting fights, title fights, controversial fights, fights were he was robbed, fights were he showed excelent skills against quality opposition, fights were he mentally collapsed, fights with riots.

How could you not be a fan of Andrew Golota?

 

Andrew is the Euro version of Mike Tyson -unpredictable, goofy, eccentric, and a head case, the guy had a lot of talent back in the 90's but he pissed it away in the Bowe fight's..
The guy was a big strong talented kid, his weakness was upstairs..

 

Golota fans are great. I like Golota fans because they are realists, they don't nuthug like Calzaghe, Mayweather and Pac fans. They are true fans of their fighters.

 

They would always start trouble in the arena and brawl in the stands! Anyone remember this rowdy crowd well from bouts other than Bowe I?

 

What drew some to Golota, I would guess, is that he was human. He stuttered terribly, which may create sympathy, a kind of "I'm pulling for him" mentality. Golota was a real head case, imo. In some of his biggest fights he would start deliberately hitting fighters low, either to recover or to get DQ'd because he wanted out. In many ways, Golota was very talented but he would have been a nightmare to be in his corner.

 

Golota "fans" like total of what, 12?

They like balls punching not Boxing
Although I am not 1 of those 12 above, I like him, He is entertaining

 

Surprised no one brought up the Sampson Po’uha bite on Tuesday night Fights, right in front of the cameras for the slow motion close up replays…He seemed to miss the point of dirty tactics randomly throwing them in and often Seemingly to sabotage himself…

One of the less amusing but telling moments was the Lewis fight…If I remember correctly, the fight was delayed because he forgot his shoes, whether a cockamamie story or not, he was late getting to the arena…and he wasn’t ready to fight and it was obvious well before the bell…He always seemed to lose his mind on the biggest stage…

I know he suffered panick attacks, which would explain a lot…He always seemed to leave everyone scratching their heads when the brightest lights were on…He was a virtuoso at finding unique and spectacular ways to pull defeat from the jaws of victory, as if he was always trying to outdo his previous face palming performance…

Crazy people can be fun to watch…how often does one get to see a fighter destroying the HW champ, only having to keep his punches up for the certain victory, meeting a warning of disqualification from the ref with a six punch combo to the ding ding? Andrew Golota fans know the answer to that question…