Andrzej Jan Gołota (Polish:[ˈandʐɛjɡɔˈwɔta]; born 5 January 1968),[1] best known as Andrew Golota, is a Polish former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2013. He challenged four times for a heavyweight world title (by all four major sanctioning bodies), and as an amateur won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1988 Olympics. Despite his accomplishments and more than 40 professional wins, Golota is perhaps best known for twice being disqualified against Riddick Bowe for repeated low blows in fights that Golota was winning. On October 4, 1997, he became the first Pole to challenge for a heavyweight boxing crown when he fought WBC champion Lennox Lewis at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. In November 2016, Golota was inducted into the Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame.[2]
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^Fitzgerald, Mike; Morley, Patrick (2014-06-19). Third Man in the Ring: 33 of Boxing's Best Referees and Their Stories. Potomac Books, Inc. ISBN 9781612342429.
Andrzej Jan Gołota (Polish: [ˈandʐɛj ɡɔˈwɔta]; born 5 January 1968), best known as AndrewGolota, is a Polish former professional boxer who competed from...
knockout loss. The second loss was against AndrewGolota, a sixth-round technical knockout loss after Golota skilfully worked a cut he had opened up over...
entertaining draw with AndrewGolota and a decision win over friend Jameel McCline in 2004, and DaVarryl Williamson in 2005. Byrd's fight with Golota did 75,000 buys...
trilogy, Bowe was matched against undefeated heavyweight contender AndrewGolota at the Madison Square Garden in an HBO Boxing event. Bowe's weight problem...
Polish-American AndrewGolota – among other things he suffered two knockdowns and a one-point deduction by referee Randy Neumann. Ruiz vs Golota was the Main...
Holyfield, Chris Byrd, John Ruiz, Julio César Chávez, Ricardo Mayorga, AndrewGolota, Bernard Hopkins, Félix Trinidad, Roy Jones Jr., Azumah Nelson, Gerald...
Gatti among others. On the night of the infamous riot after the first AndrewGolota-Riddick Bowe bout, Duva was lifted out of the ring on a stretcher after...
October, Tyson fought the similarly controversial AndrewGolota, winning in round three after Gołota was unable to continue due to a broken cheekbone,...
Michael Grant, AndrewGolota, DaVarryl Williamson and Timo Hoffmann. Sanders is perhaps best remembered for his wild brawl with Golota, which saw both...
1996 during the Riddick Bowe vs. AndrewGolota fight at Madison Square Garden, in which a confrontation between Golota and Bowe's entourage after Golata's...
Hearns Entertainment, has promoted many cards, including the Mike Tyson–AndrewGolota bout in 2000. His son Ronald Hearns is also a boxer, and he fought on...
was an aging fighter by the time he came back in 2000, outscored by AndrewGolota, and in 2001 making little effort and collapsing in sixty seconds against...
Zealander Jimmy Thunder before travelling to Poland to be outpointed by AndrewGolota.[citation needed] The 43-year-old Witherspoon resurfaced in 2001, knocking...
Thunder, citing an injury, dropped out of a fight with Polish contender AndrewGolota. Ferguson was tapped as Thunder's replacement and accepted the bout...
after five rounds for excessive clinching. Lewis then met Poland's AndrewGolota, whom he knocked out in the first round. Lewis retained the WBC world...
known for his bouts with Polish fighters Art Binkowski, Artur Szpilka, AndrewGolota, and Krzysztof Zimnoch. He was managed by Darnell Nicholson. Born into...
heavyweight division. On 24 October 2009 in Łódź, Poland, Adamek defeated AndrewGolota by TKO in the fifth round to win the IBF "International" Heavyweight...
fourth round KO to win the WBC light welterweight title. July 11 – AndrewGolota gets disqualified during the seventh round of a fight against Riddick...
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