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

Chagaev is definitely a guy Golota has a chance at beating. If Golota is to fight any of the belt holders, Chagaev is gonna give him the best chance at winning.

GO GOLOTA


BTW JC, congradulations on your winnings:hat

 

Also. Golota would have DEFINITELY TKOed Mollo had it not been for that bad eye.

AND. Mollo's a cheating little ****. He was hanging on Golota all night to avoid kissing the mat. Had Mollo played by the rules he would have been KTFO.

 

GO GOLOTA!!!!!!!!!!!

:happy :happy :happy

 

He'll beat Chagaev!:!:

 

PLus using his head to bang Andy all night!:fire

 

Last night was probably the most satysfying experience for me as a Golota fan. He was a true underdog, faced real adversity and an injury and dominated the last round with one eye.

Perhaps he should hang'em up but after all the heart he has shown last night I think he has the right to do whatever the hell he likes, even at age 40. Against Chagaev Andrew will also be no favorite but who knows maybe that's better.

GO GOLOTA! :good

 

Golota usually performs his very best as the underdog.

 

Glad Golota got the win.
Even though his best days are behind him, if it can be set up next I'd like him to have one more crack at a HW crown.

 

I tend to believe he would beat Chagaev as well.

 

At this point I wouldnt mind if Golota fought Wlad. Sure, he'd more than likely lose but I can almost gurantee he'd make it an entertaining fight. But he'd have a real chance at Maskeav or Chagaev. Ibragimov too but he's about to cough his up.

 

Golota seems to be on a roll in regards to beating white guys for belts. :hey

 

Even if he loses, and you'd have to figure him as an underdog, he'd be going out at the top level and Golota deserves that after the career he's had.

And if he somehow was able to beat one of the belt-holders, this thread would explode.

Good luck to the square-headed lunatic, as I've said several times over the history of the Express...

 

Although he was slow thru out the whole fight, I thought he actually looked pretty good in the first few rounds. He showed flashes of the old Golota jab and landed some nice, flush straight right hands. Also he went to the body very well and threw some good combos. He only started to get real sloppy when his eye was shut. He's FAR from his prime, but still has enough skills to possibly grab himself a belt before retiring.

 

NEW YORK -- Heavyweight Andrew Golota, his eye swollen shut from the fifth round on, won a unanimous decision against Mike Mollo in a grueling action-packed brawl Saturday night on the Roy Jones-Felix Trinidad undercard at Madison Square Garden.
Mollo had called out Golota, a fellow Chicago fighter, in October, and they battled it out from the opening bell.
In the end, with both men utterly exhausted, Golota claimed the decision on scores of 118-109, 116-112 and 116-110. ESPN.com also had it for Golota, 115-113.
"I couldn't see anything after Round 8," Golota said. "I had to box more by feel than by what I could see. He was much faster than I thought he would be. He hit me too many times."
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Just when you thought you had seen the last of him, here comes Andrew Golota again.



Mollo went right at Golota, attacking him with both hands from the opening bell, clearly trying to put doubts in fragile Golota's mind.
Mollo (19-2, 12 KOs) stunned Golota (41-6-1, 33 KOs) with a right hand early in the second, but Golota rebounded to stun Mollo. Golota continued to fire away, and he had Mollo hurt and trying to hold on as the round ended.
In the fourth round, Mollo rocked Golota with a right hand and had him reeling before Golota came back at the end of the exciting round.
Golota's left eye began to swell dramatically in the fifth round after Mollo landed a flush right hand.
Golota, 40, could have used a few more seconds in the eighth because he had an exhausted Mollo in some trouble, but the bell ended the round.
The ninth was action-filled, but Mollo, 27, took some heavy leather. He was hanging on for dear life in the closing seconds of the round and walked toward the wrong corner as the round ended. But Golota's eye was in terrible shape -- it was swollen completely shut.
As the pair went to the 12th, the crowd was on its feet and both fighters were dead tired but trying to finish each other. Mollo was holding again just to keep from falling down from exhaustion but was still punching, and Golota also was doing all he could to score a knockout as the final bell sounded.
"I hope nobody will call me a quitter again," said Golota, who has quit several times in tough spots.
Said Mollo: "I couldn't believe the number of combinations he threw for an old man. I fought the best I could."
Mollo's only previous loss had been a fourth-round TKO to big puncher DaVarryl Williamson in May 2006.
Golota's career has been filled with disappointments -- two disqualification losses to Riddick Bowe, including one that ignited a riot inside the Garden in 1996, and an 0-3-1 record in title fights. But this win probably kept alive his chances for another meaningful bout.

 

I've totally ignored this thread to be honest, but this is a really good win for Golota. I have respect for Mike Mollo, he's a good fighter, but Golota is a top fighter no doubt about it. I havent seen the fight yet but it sounds good action.

Seriously, Golota got jobbed against Ruiz and Byrd. He's only recent loss was when Lamon Brewster caught him cold early on, following the Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson blueprint. Golota's always been vulnerable early, once he gets warmed up he's a dangerous fighter.

Seriously, if you take the one-round KO's out of it, and the crooked decisions he's been victim off, when was the last time Golota got really beat, over the distance? 1999, Michael Grant. Before that? Riddick Bowe. His only proper loss since his comeback in 2003 was Lamon Brewster.

He's good enough to win a title in this sorry division, just like a lot of old-timers could do. Look at what Shannon Briggs and Oleg Maskeav have done. And any of those guys old, Andrew Golota, Jameel McCline, Evander Holyfield, Oliver McCall, David Tua and Hasim Rahman would have a punchers chance against all the belt-holders, apart from Wlad. The division is WEAK.