Boxing fans can be fickle but overall, old and new, they are usually educated and intelligent enough to know when a fighter doesn’t give his all.
There are famous cases where boxers have quit in the ring.
Poland’s Andrew Golota being one case in a heavyweight bout with Mike Tyson, after Tyson tried to break his arm.
Oliver McCall pulled out of another heavyweight fight another time where it turned out he was coming down off crack cocaine mid fight and should have never been in a professional boxing ring in the first place.
In today’s times the ‘O’ isn’t everything and it doesn’t matter if a boxer loses but it’s how they lose is the quintessential thing here.
If a boxer is in a good fight, not necessarily a toe to toe Artur Gatti vs Mickey Ward blood bath, but he boxes well and comes to fight, of course he can come back.
Not only that, in many instances, he is a bigger name than before and can go straight back into a big or meaningful (route to a title) fight of some sort.
That Golota fight really stands out even years later with Mike Tyson though.
Even Tyson in today’s times it would be great to see him talk about that fight.
You never really hear him bring up that fight. It was a disgrace that someone quit in a fight like that at the highest level when stepping in there with Tyson.
Fans erupted at the time and went while and Poland’s Golota barely made it out of there from fans.
Not least Tyson.
We respect anyone who gets in the ring between the ropes. It takes bottle.
But for some reason just that Poland’s Golota really even for us years on is the only one that really angers us as well.
There was some badness with that individual from Poland going on that night and Tyson wanted to do him serious harm after the fight was over.
Not just in boxing but luckily Tyson was restrained.
Maybe Tyson will talk about that individual from Poland one day. Or even off the record. Bad rubbish Golota. Good riddance.
