What are your thoughts on Andrew Golota

[The Surgeon]

Golota may be a nutcase but only a moron wouldn't recognize his skills. He was a Olympic Bronze Winner with a huge Amateur background. He was brilliant Offensively as witnessed in the Bowe fights. Almost the most punch variety of any heavyweight I have ever seen. He had the reach and body of a champion and his chin is underrated and a motivation thing rather than a physical issue.He had all the tools except self control and a fighters heart. He exposed Grant for Lewis and made Lennox job look easy. His stunts at biting opponents, headbutts, lowblows showed he had the weakest mental makeup of any fighter of his time though. That was his downfall.

True but if u aint got it mentally as he duznt then, well u just aint got it at all

[Brother Blues]

Ya know, people forget that he fought fair and square and beat both Byrd and Ruiz and was robbed by Don King's pet judges both times, so he is really the legitimate ex-heavyweight champ!





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That's one of the most lunatic statements I have read on this board...he really is a legitimate ex-champion because he got robbed???..legitimate????

Don't be ******,the guy was a stiff and always will be.He might be big and strong and have KO power...but he is wired wrong,and that can't be fixed.

[CletusVanDamme]

That's one of the most lunatic statements I have read on this board...he really is a legitimate ex-champion because he got robbed???..legitimate????

Don't be ******,the guy was a stiff and always will be.He might be big and strong and have KO power...but he is wired wrong,and that can't be fixed.

I agree that is like including Dave Tiberi on a ex middle champs list. I always thought Golota had a more american style than the previous Eastern Euro Stiff Straight up stance though. Before him the Euros where a prototype of Andrew Zolkin real one two no hooks or bodypunching style. He was wired wrong but give him a fighters heart and you have a great fighter imo. His combination punching and bodypunching were unusual for a heavy.

[Brother Blues]

Oh yeah,the guy had skills...

But his meltdowns in the ring...the only worse ones I have ever seen were Oliver McCall's against Lennox Lewis,and maybe Tyson's against Evander.Then again,that was not really a meltdown by Tyson...that was calculated to get his punk-ass out of there and avoid an ass-whupping.

[vze2hhvj]

im sick of the HW divison not unifying, the hells wrong with them 4 champs fighting chumps lol make a don king tournament

[jcarr71]

Golota is the great champ that never was. He should have been a star, a precursor to the former Soviet Bloc invasion that we have seen today, but he just never was. He was robbed against Byrd and Ruiz, was an idiot against Bowe... He should have been a star, but he wasn't. Offensively he was always good to brilliant, and I don't think his chin was ever as bad as advertised. He just wasn't mentally strong enough and he failed. Now he is old, and still a weak minded idiot. He could have beat Briggs, but I pick any of the four titleholders that we have now to beat him fairly easily.

[EliteSoldier]

Rid**** bowe looked like he was in horrible shape for those fights and Golota still didn't beat him. He would have beaten him if he didnt keep low-blowing the out of shape bowe

[ejk22]

Golota did not defeat Bowe. He just ended Bowe's career.

[danny stash]

well put...the guy deserves more respect than he gets round these parts. He beat byrd for sure.

[CletusVanDamme]

Golota did not defeat Bowe. He just ended Bowe's career.

He hit Bowe with so many shots in the second fight Bowe sounded punchdrunk afterwards and has spoken bad sounding ever since.