Sunday, 22 May 2005
Golota knocked out in 53 seconds!
Now if boxing is one of the easiest sports to fix then Lamon Brewster did not get the message. Clearly this was a very one-sided contest but I'd have imagined that Don King may have wanted the first heavyweight title fight in Chicago to last a bit longer than 53 seconds.
In that time local lad Andrew Golota went down three times. "I understand why the ref had to stop the fight, but I wanted to continue. I cannot believe this happens to me every decade (referring to when Lennox Lewis stopped him previously), maybe its time for me to think about leaving boxing." Er, so do I Andrew.
The audience just stood in silence and in fact many people only arrived in time to see the big fight and at $100 a ticket would have been very pissed off. We however saw the two fights before (there were 8 altogether) including an excellent WBC light heavyweight contest between Poland's Tomasz Adamek and Australian Paul Briggs. Many thousands in the 20,000 crowd were 2nd generation Poles from Chicago, the city has more Polish people in it than anywhere else in the world other than Poland and they roared their man onto a points victory.
We were lucky to be in a box and I had an excellent night and even won a few dollars, it just ended a bit suddenly, but not as sudden as it was for Golota. ¶ 18:35
Now if boxing is one of the easiest sports to fix then Lamon Brewster did not get the message. Clearly this was a very one-sided contest but I'd have imagined that Don King may have wanted the first heavyweight title fight in Chicago to last a bit longer than 53 seconds.
In that time local lad Andrew Golota went down three times. "I understand why the ref had to stop the fight, but I wanted to continue. I cannot believe this happens to me every decade (referring to when Lennox Lewis stopped him previously), maybe its time for me to think about leaving boxing." Er, so do I Andrew.
The audience just stood in silence and in fact many people only arrived in time to see the big fight and at $100 a ticket would have been very pissed off. We however saw the two fights before (there were 8 altogether) including an excellent WBC light heavyweight contest between Poland's Tomasz Adamek and Australian Paul Briggs. Many thousands in the 20,000 crowd were 2nd generation Poles from Chicago, the city has more Polish people in it than anywhere else in the world other than Poland and they roared their man onto a points victory.
We were lucky to be in a box and I had an excellent night and even won a few dollars, it just ended a bit suddenly, but not as sudden as it was for Golota. ¶ 18:35
