Okay, Golata is winning the fight going into the 6th. Joyce rallies in the 7th and hurts him in the 8th. Having lost the 7th and 8th Golata panics and hits Joe in the Chicken McNuggets in the 9th. Game over.
I can see Golota getting frustrated. Joyce has a decent wallop and I suspect a very good/excellent chin. We all know them attributes would get you some very good paydays, and the chance of a win, in any Heavyweight era.
It's pretty obvious that Golota would have some sort of meltdown. Joyce brings 260 pounds of calm, unstoppable pressure.
Golota could out box him if he doesn't implode like he so often did. But chances are he hits Joyce with everything in his arsenal gets frustrated Joyce takes it all and keeps coming and forcing him to fight at a pace he isn't uncomfortable with. Golota the in frustration goes for the Juggernauts family jewels and gets disqualified.
Golota outboxes the **** out of the big palooka. This Joyce guys the second coming of Michel Grant...how can I be the only one to see this? BTW Golota was only DQ'd a couple of times...its not like he was a pathological DQ-er.
I know...it doesn't matter...Golota was years past it by then. You can tell that Golota was completely shot by that fight because he was picked as a 'tailor-made' opponent by Grant's manager Bill Cayton using the same recipe that built up Tyson's, Morrison's and then Grant's undefeated records. Put in a fit, healthy Golota, such as when he was sparring with Tua on a daily basis and he'd give Joyce a boxing lesson.
LOL...God I hope your joking. Haha Anyway, I'd put his peak roughly around 95-96....I just checked his record and Grant was almost 5 year later. I've seen one bout between those times (95/96 and 99/00) and that was a bloodbath against Corrie Sanders (the black one)...he must have slipped as Sanders wasn't too talented from memory and it was a) a bloodbath and b) went the distance and given Golota's pedigree, it shouldn't have. Anyway, you picked Joyce...stoppage, points or DQ?