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

Injury or not, when a guy like Austin beats you from pillar to post, you have to know its time to hang em up. The injury, after all, was caused by Austin during the fight so there is no excuse here. Its really the same old first round woes and its something Andrew will not be able to fix. It's part of his make up. We saw this against McBride and to a lesser extent against Mollo. Lennox drew the blueprint of how to beat Golota and every heavy with some power has been following this ever since. Let's face it: In terms of his opponents' skill level and accomplishments, this is Golota's worst defeat ever. He needs one more closing fight against a Jeremy Bates type of fighter and he needs to say goodbye to the sweet science. It's over!

 

Golota shouldnt feel so bad, he's ****in' 41 years old man! But of course that's easy for me to say. This is a man who spent his whole life chasing his dream and always came just a buck short. He had yet another title chance in his palm and lost it all over a damned injury. Very sad, I feel terrible for him. But he'll move on as always. He's been in much worse positions than this before (Tyson, Lewis, Brewster).

Golota will always be a people's champion. :bbb

 

Yes it was definitely just a flash knockdown. He got up and seemed perfectly fine. Almost as if he needed to get knocked to the canvas once just to get warmed up. If not for the injury he could have surely recovered and beatin' Austin, just as he did McBride. I guess Golota gets so damn nervous before a fight, he becomes damn near chinless until the first round is over. Then suddenly he's ready for battle and his chin is strong again.

 

Remember when Sam said in camp a few weeks ago that Golota will have a 50/50 chance against Austin? ****, the guy knew what he was talking about!

 

C'mon that's crap. You're making it seem like it was a lucky punch or something. We're talking about two knockdowns from a guy who doesn't have devastating knockout power. Golota got beat from pillar to post in that round. The knockdowns, the injury all happened because Austin was the better fighter today.

 

Yes and I remember thinking that was not the most confidence I had ever heard from a trainer speaking of his fighter. :verysad But I tried to ignore this fore warning and stay posstive. After all he had just performed well in his last 3 previous fights and Austin wasn't even a top twenty guy. I still think Golota would have probably beatin' Austin once he got past the first round, and would have had it not been for the injury. Austin would have gassed himself out much like McBride did and Golota would of started to dominate.

 

Golota was not even hurt after the knock down. He got up quickly and started fighting, it was a flash knock down. The second knock down wasnt even a knock down, it was a slip, as ruled by the ref. Golota got "beatin pillar to post" because he was fighting with one arm. Not exactly easy to box and defend yourself with one arm. Golota was hurt by McBride early, banged around for an entire first round and he recovered. This is typical Golota, nothing new.

 

We need to give Austin his props for all of this and realize that even if Golota decides to regain some credibility in hopes of fighting for a belt, it will take at least another year or 2-3 fights before any belt holder/organization deems him worthy of a shot. Guys...............Golota is no Hopkins and this is totally unrealistic. I predict that Golota has just fought his second last fight.

 

Reading that interview posted earlier it seems Golota is really down about this and cannot come to terms with it.

When asked if he should be asked if this is it for him, he replied "You can ask, but I won't answer, since I don't know myself. This isnt a good question at the moment".

I get the feeling Golota can't let it go just yet. Seems the poor guy just can't come to terms with what happened today. If it wasnt from the arm injury, he may have been able to pull through. Shame we will never know. Golota beat up Bowe, Grant, Byrd, Ruiz. Two of those were Belt holders, in which Golota got robbed by the scumbag judges. The other 2 fights Golota threw out on his own, but no doubt beat up both guys convincingly, making him the better, more skilled fighter. To our Champ Golota.

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Austin indeed deserves props. I'm sure his corner explained Golota's early weakness, Austin took advantage and ended up dropping Golota. But again, Golota didn't appear hurt AT ALL. Austin hit Golota with much bigger shots thru out the rest of the entire round and Golota took them well. Golota suffered an elbow injury, couldnt defend himself and it just wasn't his night.

But yeah I agree, he needs to retire immediately. He is too old, slow and has no defense. WHen you start gettin knocked down 2 seconds of the first round and dislocated elbows, your body is trying to tell you something.

 

What hurts the most about all of this is though, that he deserved to go out much better then this. He gained a tremendous amount of heart, but it looks as though he traded his other skills in for it. If only this happened a few years earlier.

 

If he could have only avoided trying to land body shots on Bowe, he would have made history. He was amazing in that first fight, except for the low blows.

 

Golota made history as one of the most exciting, craziest, highly skilled heavyweights never to win a title. (officially)

:thumbsup

 

I think Golota will never strop chasing his dream of being heavyweight champion of the world. I can see him in few years walking into the ring with a walker How much does that damned WBC belt cost??? I am willing to chip in. C mon Andrew you have to know when it's time to hang them up. You are people's champion no matter what.

 

Andrew will be back until he officially retires. Period.