Samuel Peter Negotiating to Fight Andrew Gołota!
Last week at jabandgrapple.com we told you about the proposed Vitali Klitschko - Samuel Peter fight and how Peter will fight some walkover in the interim. Well, a name for that walkover has been bandied about and it’s none other than Andrzej Gołota a/k/a Andrew Golota a/k/a the guy who was perilously close to winning the world heavyweight title in 1996 but couldn’t stop hitting Riddick Bowe in the unmentionables.
“He’s still fighting?” we wondered. It seems. He’s now 40-years-old and in the midst of a modestly successful three-fight comeback. The last time I even thought about Gołota was way back in 1998.
I was living in Wrocław, Poland for the summer spending a great deal of time in the city’s beautiful rynek, its lively old town center and marketplace. One afternoon a boxing ring appeared alongside a dais, both draped with signs for the local beer Piast, an undrinkable sweet swill if there ever was one.
I wondered what was going on and someone said Gołota was coming to promote the beer and his next fight. This person continued calling him various unkind things - “stupid bum”, “loser”, “idiot” - and a few others as unmentionable as where he hit Bowe. She wasn’t alone in her opinions. Nearly everyone who passed by the ring gave it a derisive look and an angry snort. Here was someone who let the country down with his bonehead moves and made both himself and his people a sporting laughingstock.
Sure I felt bad for the guy but that doesn’t mean I stayed to see his arrival. Part of me was worried a riot would ensue the other part wanted to sit down, enjoy the beautiful day and enjoy a drinkable beer. Which I did.
Gołota is now living in Chicago and still has the ability to give Peter a run. Both are exquisitely egregious foulers and their fight will at least be interesting. Nevertheless, we wonder what would have happened had he not fouled Bowe in both of those matches. He didn’t have to do it; he had the second fight won. Gołota would have been a hero, he would have been adored by his countrymen, and his confidence wouldn’t have immediately been shot.
This time Andrzej I’m in your corner and hope you can stop the Nigerian’s run through eastern Europe’s top heavyweights at Poland. Peter need not ever make it to the Ukraine.
The accompanying Piast promo shot is a poster that was sold in March on a Polish auction site. for 8 zł or $3.65 US. Why couldn’t I have found this web page earlier!?!?
Anyone else have any Gołota memories? I’d love to hear them, especially if mine is off base.
Tags: Andrew Golota, Andrzej Gołota, heavyweight, Riddick Bowe, Samuel Peter, Vitali KlitschkoRelated Stories
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