Career Recap Series: Andrew Golota

[NoSavingByTheBell]

A nice career recap of a very talented but self-destructive boxer:

[Memphis]

I know that's a few years old now but I really enjoyed that. A nice piece well done. Given the amount of utter utter shite boxing coverage on youtube these days it was a very nice welcome break.

I can't help but like Golota. Total basket case but seriously entertaining and for a while a seriously good fighter who really ought to have gotten more out of the sport. I guess if you use the twin elevator method of evaluating a fighters peek, you'd have to say it was the end of his career because the only time there was ever any sign of the mental elevator getting off the ground, was right at the death when he was physically done.

[ykdadamaja]

A nice career recap of a very talented but self-destructive boxer:

Rummy's corner is one of the better boxing channels. Him and OfficeHancho.

[Spicoli]

That was top notch first time seeing it. Love the flashback to USA Tuesday Night fights and Hbo original content. Golota proved to be ahead of his time a bit and put some stereotypes to rest about 'stand up Euro etc style' that were easily thrown at every non American or Mexican fighter at the time. Golota was a bull that could power box but the asterisk on his record will be as a panicky troubled headcase. But have no doubt, he beat Byrd. On aside I never knew Manny Stewart came around and said that in the Mollo fight. That was pure class.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Golota was on his way to knocking out Bowe in the first fight, I think had he kept his punches up he would have sparked him by the 11th or so. Would there have been a rematch? Yes. And had he beaten Bowe again, and remember that wouldve been about December 1996, he would have been flying high, but still was headed for that Lennox Lewis showdown..... would he have done better if he'd kept his head straight? We'll never know. But Lewis wanted no part of a long dog fight with Andrew, he made sure to get him the hell out of there ASAP.

[X]

He was a really good fighter, wasn’t he? Went toe to toe with just about everyone of his era. Maybe the Jerry Quarry of his day, as I reckon he would have been a champ in most other eras.

Good puncher, great chin, excellent engine and good technique. The complete fighter, apart from his obvious tendency to lose his focus (and the plot) when he got tired.

Incidentally, I don’t think there is such a thing as a ‘European stand up style’. Polish fighters in particular, are well noted brawlers!