I tend to think the Holyfield trilogy ruined Bowe to a large extent. The Golota fights gave him permanent brain damage.
:roll: Coming from you, Dino, that's a compliment. Nevertheless, let me be fair. Bowe gave Golota a good pair of fights. However, he was losing both hands down, despite his best efforts. He was NOT ( :rofl ) becoming "stronger" as the fight progressed. Bowe was taking an ungodly pounding, and somehow managed to dig deep to fight back. Kudos to him for that much, I guess that he had the heart that everybody said he didn't, after all. Yeah, Golota crumbled mentally when Bowe wouldn't go down; too bad about that because if he hadn't lost the plot he'd have won a wiiiide decision at worst. :hey I will also say that Golota had above-average talent, which Bowe discovered to his cost. Now you may consider yourself dismissed and you can go back to throwing darts at your Klitschko dartboard.:hi:
Bowe came back from a bad start and flattened Golota in the 4th and bust up his face. After that Golota was done. A fight is 12 rounds. Being behind after the first 4 is not losing hands down in any way. Boxing is 99% mental. A shop worn Bowe knocked the fight out of the best and unbeaten version of Golota that ever stepped in the ring before the fight even went into the 8th round. Golota wanted out. He may as well have quit out on his stool. He did not want to continue. Golota never came close to beating Bowe first time out. There is no "if he hadn't lost the plot" . You just do not understand how the game works. That is exactly the same as saying - if a guy didn't get knocked out he could have won. You're a joke of a poster.
Golota was never "out" of the fight, as if a punching bag could knock the fight out of you :nut Golota was simply frustrated, and instead of continuing to beat the living snot out of Bowe the "legal" route, resorted to playing pinball with Bowe's nuts. I guess the streetfighter in Golota couldn't deal with a punchbag that simply wouldn't stay down. He didn't "want out". :nono He wanted to annihilate Bowe, at any cost, even if that meant disqualification. Your interpretation of events is laughable In any case, I don't feel too sorry for Bowe, because he was a dirty fighter himself, who had employed similar tactics both in that fight and in the past :deal I guess Karma was called Golota. Now, consider yourself dismissed to go bet welching or sock-smoking, whatever strikes your fancy :hi:
I think it is obvious to anyone experienced in the fight game that Bowe would have lost plenty of fights had he faced all comers -- he was a very good fighter for a very short time, and the top quality opponent he faced was a favorable stylistic match-up for him. Bowe is, in my opinion, one of the most overrated heavyweights out there. He could have been an all-time great, but as is more often the case than not, his talent was not matched by his mentality.
Golota couldn't keep Bowe off him and used low blows to bail himself out. Over and over. Without low blows , Bowe would have ground him down and got him out like he was doing anyway. Did you ever get a blow to the nuts? Imagine a guy the size of Golota power shotting you to the balz. Thats what Bowe had to battle through from the beginning. He would have been far stronger without taking those low blows. Golota knew it , so tapped out. He quit- he lost. Its very simple. Saying that , what you just typed out has to be the most ret.arded drivel ive ever read. You're clearly a moron of the highest order and have no business on a boxing forum.
The only truth in that statement of yours is that Bowe looked like a sagging mattress by the later stages of the second fight, trying to take a nap on Golota's shoulder, he was so bust up and exhausted. Yeah, Golota couldn't keep him off. Wladimir had nothing on Bowe in the hugging stakes in that fight. The low blows had nothing to do with Bowe losing. Bowe got out-fought practically all fight long, because Golota was simply the superior fighter. Golota was a dumbass to go low, because he was doing FAR more damage boxing within the rules. I LOL at the notion of Golota losing the latter half of the fight, btw. He won the last five rounds in convincing fashion. Just look at the punch stats ... he landed a higher percentage of more blows thrown. Bowe got fukked up, that's the truth. :deal There is no way on earth that this guy is "maybe the best HW h2h" Now, consider yourself dismissed. You may go back to your crayon drawings of Wlad losing a fight. :hi:
First 80 percent, and now 99, boxers really don't need their bodies at all it would seem. One wonders why Stephen Hawking is not champ.
Boxing is 99% mental. The body only does what the mind tells it to. Hawking is in a wheelchair because his body is cut off from his mind. The morons are coming out of the woodwork left and right around here.
Everytime Bowe got close , Golota shat his pants and looked for a way out. Eventually bottling so bad that he QUIT. That was against a Bowe who said - why do i have to train for a bum A washed up under prepared Bowe made prime undefeated Golota quit. There isn't any other version of events than the one that happened. Get it into your useless dome and cease quoting me.
:rofl Every time Bowe got close, Golota drilled him with shots, pushed him back, and pummelled him some more. The only thing Bowe showed was heart and an ability to eat leather. That's not a recipe for victory, that's a recipe for disaster. :dead That wasn't just the first fight. That was both fights. Bowe was so exhausted he was practically drooling from the mouth. Actually the ref should have stopped it, but Bowe was showing just enough to stay in the fight and to keep taking his licks. Quitting is turning your back or saying "no mas" on the stool. Golota never quit. :nono He was on a mission to destroy Bowe. Man, it must be nice to have your peculiar vision that sees things there that ain't. Now, consider yourself dismissed; you may return to painting your toenails or curling your eyebrows, whichever you wish. :hi:
Mmmmm, there is clearly an agenda going on here. Holyfield defeated many decent fighters and the list is pretty endless. Quawi, Dokes, Stewart, Foreman, Bowe, Tyson, Mercer, Moorer, Ruiz, Rahman were all live wires when Holyfield beat them and he definitely had a strong claim for being the best of his generation. Lewis possibly beats him but it really is very close, Bowe was potentially the best but he didn't last and his prime was simply too brief so he isn't in contention.
Was Bowe really around the same weight for the second Golota fight as in his title winning first fight against Holyfield because they looked like 2 completely different fighters? Against Golota, Bowe looked so skinny with no muscle tone and possibly the thinnest legs ever seen on a heavyweight !