I'm kind of on the fence as far as what he could've done... I think ppl do tend to get too carried away looking at the Bowe fights, he was just the right guy in the right time to beat him in a large sense imo. I doubt he wouldv'e looked nearly as good against the Bowe who fought Holyfeild the first time. But, he was a very big HW with solid fundamentals, he is very strong, had respectable speed and combination punching for sure at his best. However, I recently watched him fight Mike Tyson for the first time in ages.. And I thought he probably was going to get beat down there no matter what his mindstate had been like. Imo that was one of Tysons only decent showings in a long time since he got out of prison.. He appeared to have mustered up a shred of his old movement and was affectively slipping Golota's shots and getting off some good short hooks on him. Of course Golota could have continued, and maybe if he hung in there he would've turned things around.. But, that wasn't the kind of fighter he was then. It is indeed very strange that in his fight on saturday at this advanced age he was finally able to keep his cool and overcome some adversity.. Perhaps if he had fought with that mindset in every fight things would have gone differently. However, I still think that Lewis, Tyson, and Brewster showed that it had a lot more to do with then his mindset. He could be jumped on early to much success.
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