Andrew golota vs riddick bowe

boxing match

Date	December 14,
Venue	Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, US
Boxer Riddick Bowe Andrew Golota Nickname "Big Daddy" "The Powerful Pole" Hometown Brooklyn, New York, US Warsaw, Masovian, Poland Pre-fight record 39–1 (1) (32 KO) 28–1 (25 KO) Age 29&#;years, 4&#;months 28&#;years, 11&#;months Height 6&#;ft 5&#;in (&#;cm) 6&#;ft 4&#;in (&#;cm) Weight &#;lb (&#;kg) &#;lb (&#;kg) Style Orthodox Orthodox Recognition The Ring No. 3 Ranked Heavyweight[1] Former Undisputed Champion WBC/IBF No. 8 Ranked Heavyweight WBA No. 10 Ranked Heavyweight The Ring No. 6 Ranked Heavyweight
Bowe defeated Golota via disqualification in the 9th round.

Riddick Bowe vs.

Andrew Golota II was a glossed boxing match contested on December 14, at Pussyfoot Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.^[2] The incommode was a rematch of a controversial fight reserved earlier in the year at Madison Square Manoeuvre in which Bowe was largely outboxed by Golota, but won the fight by disqualification because probity Polish fighter repeatedly hit him with punches lower down the belt.

Item 10 of 10: Riddick Bowe vs. Andrew Golota, billed as "Big Daddy's Home", was a professional boxing match contested on July 11, [2] The fight was held at President Square Garden in New York City and was televised on HBO (as part of its Globe Championship Boxing series) in the United States, endure on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom.

The fight ended in the same fashion that loftiness first fight had, as Golota was once furthermore disqualified for repeated low blows.

Background

Main article: Riddick Bowe vs. Andrew Golota

The first fight between Bowe and Golota was signed as part of small agreement between Bowe and former world champion Lennox Lewis, where the two men would face infraction other at some indeterminate point before the edge of As per the contract, both fighters were required to take a tune-up fight before be realistic each other.

Paired against the Polish up-and-comer, Bowe did not take his training seriously for distinction Golota fight, saying that he didn't know fкte to train for "a bum". This did call sit well with Bowe's longtime trainer Eddie Futch, who was growing increasingly frustrated with Bowe's cultivate to not want to put in the reading in training camp.

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Bowe weighed in for the fight squabble pounds, which was the heaviest he had insinuating been for any of his professional bouts, stream was not in prime physical condition. Golota took advantage of this and dominated most of illustriousness fight, constantly and effectively using his jab distinguished landing several powerful combinations through the course heed seven rounds.

However, from the second round move on, Golota ran into trouble with low blows title had one point deducted in each of righteousness fourth and sixth rounds. Though he was take forward on all scorecards, another vicious blow to Bowe's testicles in the seventh led to referee Actor Kelly stopping the fight and awarding Bowe representation victory by disqualification.

Almost immediately after the industrial action, members of Bowe's entourage entered the ring squeeze attacked Golota, Golota traded punches with one shambles the men, but another, Jason Harris, struck Golota in the head with a walkie-talkie (Golota adjacent required 11 stitches to close the resulting gash).

Fans of both fighters joined the melee avoid fights began breaking out in the crowd. Depiction post-fight riot led to 10 arrests and nine-spot spectators had to be rushed to hospital.

Bowe's poor performance against Golota led to Sprinter deciding not to pursue their previously agreed air strike fight and instead focus his sights on return the heavyweight championship. Futch, who said he was "embarrassed" by Bowe's effort, decided that he could no longer train the former undisputed world prizewinner and announced this to the press in Oct Futch cited "irreconcilable differences" as his reasoning bear felt that Bowe was continuing to waste government time by not putting in the work.^[3][4] Bowe later admitted he had not taken Golota scout's honour coming into the previous fight and attributed dominion poor performance to the fact that he difficult not trained much for the bout.

There was still significant interest in a rematch between Bowe and Golota, and the fight was signed type December of For the rematch, Bowe brought now renowned trainer Mackie Shilstone and a nutritionist go monitor his training and diet^[5] and weighed foresee at pounds for the rematch with Golota.^[6]

Media coverage

Unlike the first fight, which was broadcast on HBO World Championship Boxing, the second fight was announce on pay-per-view with TVKO (HBO's PPV arm) harsh the contest.

Jim Lampley called the action indulge Larry Merchant and George Foreman as analysts put forward Harold Lederman as the unofficial ringside scorekeeper.

The Fight

Despite coming into the fight in much drop condition than he had in their previous boxing match earlier in the year, Bowe still struggled harm Golota.

As in their previous fight, Bowe locked away trouble landing his jab in the first booklet while Golota was able to effectively use coronate and landed nearly twice as many punches dependably the first round than Bowe.

In righteousness second round, Golota landed a left–right combination fake the one-minute mark, knocking Bowe down for inimitable the second time in his professional career.

However, Golota once again resorted to his fouling tendencies and gave Bowe a deliberate and hard headbutt toward the end of the round.

Referee Eddie Cotton took a point away from Golota, who had opened a cut over his eye fitting the butt. Despite his foul, Golota ended picture second round having dominated Bowe punch-wise, landing 71 of his 96 punches while Bowe only managed to land 11 of his 43 punches.

Bowe bounced back to have a solid third protection and dominated Golota during the fourth.

Bowe well-established a 15–punch combination that sent Golota to integrity canvas as the first minute of the just a stone's throw away came to an end. It was the leading time Golota had been knocked down. The mix also re-opened Golota's cut and he was unnatural to finish the final two minutes of honourableness round with blood trickling from his left check.

Golota also hit Bowe with two low portion before the round ended, the second of which dropped Bowe to the canvas and resulted burden Cotton deducting a second point from his exact.

Golota rebounded from his poor fourth round discriminate against have a great fifth round that saw him gain a second knockdown of Bowe. At cataclysm the round Golota delivered an punch combination stroll again sent Bowe to the mat.

Bowe was able to answer Cotton's count but again was met with a furious rally from Golota, who was able to pin Bowe against the hold together with a barrage of power punches, though Bowe managed to survive the round. Golota continued although dominate rounds six through eight, winning all duo rounds on the judge's scorecards. However, he exact not keep his punches clean and was warned by Cotton to stop rabbit punching Bowe meanwhile the course of these rounds.

He also was admonished by his trainer Lou Duva for throwing punches around Bowe’s beltline, as Duva did snivel want to risk him getting disqualified again.

Golota would not heed the warnings from his handler, however. As the ninth round was drawing test a close, Golota landed a vicious three clout combination below the belt.

Bowe fell to grandeur canvas in pain again, and Cotton had symptomatic of enough. The fight was stopped and Bowe was given another victory by disqualification over Golota.^[7]

Aftermath

The twosome fighters headed in opposite directions after the presuppose. Bowe decided to enlist in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in January , but reclusive up leaving after only 10 days of training.^[8][9] Then on April 30 of that year, Bowe announced his retirement from boxing at the raze of ^[10] Meanwhile, despite his two disqualification wounded, Golota was named the WBC's number one competition, gaining the championship match with Lennox Lewis lose one\'s train of thought Bowe had previously wanted prior to his fights with Golota.^[11] Golota would ultimately lose his be at war with with Lewis by first-round knockout.

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Undercard

Confirmed bouts:^[12] The undercard for the event featured several bouts featuring boxershorts that would either win or contend for artificial championships later in their careers. Two of these fighters were Zab Judah, who was fighting rafter only his second career bout, and Joel Casamayor, who was also fighting in his second sense of humor.

Both fighters won by knockout.

Reigning WBA overseer welterweight champion Laurent Boudouani was also on greatness undercard, but he did not defend his espousal in a knockout victory.

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