Andrew Golota: A Tribute To The Powerful Pole-The Dirty Meat Tenderizer Of Warszawa.

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  1. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Yeah, I was asking more along the lines of your 2nd paragraph there. I agree. Golota (if at his best and committed/disciplined - BIG if) could topple a good few HW champs from throughout history, whereas Adamek is a little too basic to hang with anyone in 175's top 15-20.
     
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  2. Rumsfeld

    Rumsfeld Moderator Staff Member

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    In fairness to Adamek, 175 pounds is still basically 175.

    Although I suppose with same day weigh-ins, they both would have been heavyweights in many previous eras.
     
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  3. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    I don't know how much the generational size gradation @ HW gives an unfair advantage to Golota in rating them against the ATG's in their respective divisions, honestly. Golota is smaller than, say, Carnera, and only marginally bigger than Max Baer (has 1½ of height on him but 2" less reach, and weighed in on average roughly just 10lb more in his prime)
     
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  4. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    LHW is just freaking stacked. Good luck to anyone matching up with the fifteen or twenty best there. Hell, prime Bad Chad himself might not pick up a W in the bunch.

    You have to go pretty deep, around 25, or so before you reach someone Dawson or Adamek could reasonably be expected to handle. And even then, I'm not entirely sure...talking like Virgil Hill, for instance.
     
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  5. MVC!

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    I would have loved to see a prime Charles fight the guys now (Ward [soon], Kovalev, Shumenov, Hopkins, Stevenson, Beterbiev, etc)
     
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  6. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Light heavyweight might be the most fun division in boxing history to make fantasy h2h match-ups.

    Jones vs. everybody, Moore vs. everybody, Conn vs. everybody, Spinks vs. everybody, Lewis vs. everybody, Johnson vs. everybody...

    Foster, Gibbons, Saad, Bivins, Conteh, Moorer, Qawi, Torres, Maxim, Tiger, Galindez, Mills...

    JESUS. :jjj
     
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  7. Rumsfeld

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    I'm totally with you.

    Golota, on the other hand, could be reasonably expected to be competitive and perform decently against most of the ATG who weren't one punch KO artists. He'd lose his fair share, but he'd also match up well against some of those guys and snag at least a few victories I'd think.

    But as you said regarding Adamek and Dawson, you look at a Virgil Hill, and he's question mark.
     
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  8. Rumsfeld

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    I'll take Golota in that one without thinking twice. The chance is there for Wilder to blast Golota out early, but the reverse is true, too. While Golota wasn't a KO artist he had good pop in his punches, especially in 1996 when he had good upper body movement and deceptively fast hands.

    Wilder would have a shot early as you stated, but based on what I've seen of Wilder I honestly think this is one Golota would almost certainly win. His big pitfall would be eating a flush right hand before he got his jab going.
     
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  9. Rumsfeld

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    At some point I'd love to do a Golota episode, but right now I have no idea when I'll even have time to do a quick one.

    :-(
     
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  10. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    :nod

    Unlike a lot of Wilder opponents, Golota has the size and speed to hustle in past the danger zone and land, with a 50-50 chance of eating that right hand on the way in.
     
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  11. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    I feel bad that I short changed Golota, I started writing this at about 5 in the morning as the time I posted it can attest to, and I realized I'd bit off far more than I could chew because I was getting sleepy and I'd already done the first paragraph and as you can probably tell the second one is rushed. I'll expound more and fix it up a later date and bump it like I've done with a few other threads in the past.
     
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  12. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    How about Golota vs. Botha?

    Frans is a vastly inferior talent but considerably more persistent. :think
     
    IntentionalButt, Jul 21, 2015
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  13. Rumsfeld

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    No lie, I was thinking about that possibility about an hour ago. :lol:

    Had Golota signed with Don King in 1996 instead of 2004, he would have almost certainly grabbed a belt along the way, and DK may have given us a Golota-Botha trilogy.

    :smoke
     
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  14. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    That might not have been the worst thing Don ever did to us.

    Golota vs. Botha, as it plays out in my head, is a pretty fun ride.
     
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  15. CST80

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    For some reason I got the image of Schwarzenegger fighting with Buzzsaw in Running Man pop into my head.:lol: Although he wasn't a platinum blond/white back then.
     
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