Golota wasn't mentally ready for the pressure to fight Lewis. Also he had some injuries. Main Events rushed him into the fight for the $. Golota just wasn't ready or mature enough to handle all the pressure and the pressure is what crushed him that night, remember he was so late getting to the arena, and they injected some kind of medication into his injured knee which supposedly gave him anxiety attacks. On top of that, Lewis and Golota had sparred once years earlier and Lewis learned that he could handle Golota fairly easily, that Golota "couldn't handle it when you turn up the heat on him."
He was pressured into going through with the fight with tendonitis in his knee. They had a doctor illegally inject him with Lidocaine just two hours before the fight. Golota did agree to an illegal injection and was fined for it but claims it was malpractice by the doctor for using Lidocaine. Lidocaine doesn't "supposedly" do anything, its real side effects are and can induce caridac arrest in hyper sensitive people which is what happened to Golota: <LI class=_AXc>feeling anxious, shaky, dizzy, restless, or depressed;<LI class=_AXc>drowsiness, vomiting, ringing in your ears, blurred vision;<LI class=_AXc>confusion, twitching, seizure (convulsions);<LI class=_AXc>fast heart rate, rapid breathing, feeling hot or cold; Golota stopped breathing and lost his pulse for 35 seconds and was revived through cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Golota filed a law suit against the doctor and was awarded a million bucks. I think people unfairly dig up this fight as evidence of Golota being a quitter and also maybe an over statement of Lewis's killer instinct. Golota not really a quitter in this case, just an idiot.
That's crazy ^ glad he won his lawsuit. He wasn't right in that Lewis fight everyone could see during the entrance and introduction he was off. That stuff could of killed him.
More talented than some guys who won a title i.e. Ruiz, Valuev, Rahmann. I don't think the Bowe fights ruined him. Apparently he was mentally fragile before and after those fights. He ruined Bowe though. Bowe took way more punishment in those two fights than he did.
He sucked... He just didn't have what it takes... We can talk about him having this or that but in the end he just didn't have it and it's really that simple
I'm usually sceptical of those kinds of excuses, but if Golota sued the doctor and won that suggests there's a great deal of truth in that. The doctor's lucky Lewis didn't kill Golota.
Yeah, but he quit on other occasions. If a fighter quits more than once in his career, he's a quitter, I suppose.
I gotta question the people - managers, trainers, boxing commission officials - who sent Golota into a boxing ring a couple hours after the above happened.
