In 2000, at the Palace in Detroit, the former heavyweight king Mike Tyson scored a quick TKO over notoriously unstable Andrew Golota, but the victory that occurred when Golota refused to start the third round, was later changed to the lack of because Tyson touched the drug test.

1. The fight, which was called “Showdown in Motown”, was promoted by Lois Hearns, mother of the legendary “Hitman” Thomas Hearnswhich leads in entertainment Hearns.

2. As part of the fight, boxing writers had a day in the field, asking if it is actually possible for Tyson and Golota-Okór with the most controversial bad boys from boxing-to an sincere and flawless competition.

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4. Getting to knock down thanks to his powerful right hand a few seconds before the end of the opening session, Tyson looked on the road to the next explosive victory of KO. But Golota, after injury at the beginning of the second round, held his fire for landing. An unforgettable fight was damaged.

5. However, Golot, who raised the cut above the left eye, and then livid both Tyson and fans, refusing to go to the third round. “I threw,” told Judge Frank Garz. Golota also claimed that Tyson deliberately hit him on the first round, and the violation causes the cut in his eye. The Golota corner, Al Certo, begged his warrior to continue the fight, trying to force the rubber cover to the mouth of Golota in the third round. “I should have pushed his ass,” noted the Certo later.

Or Golota was thrown with beer cups and other things by an annoyed crowd when he went to the wardrobe.

7. Golota, later happened, beat. The trip to the hospital revealed how he suffered, along with cutting above the eye, brain shock, broken cheekbone and a hernia plate around the neck.

8. After the fight and sudden ending, people tried to find out what happened. The then corner of Tyson, Tommy Brooks, said that in his opinion Golota suffered an attack and was not a coward. Certo also revealed how his warrior really wanted to give up after the first round.

9. Advisor Tyson Shelly Finkel told the press that the fight in Golota would be the last fight of Tyson. Instead, the former champion boxed (during the break) for the next five years, winning two more trips and stopped in the other three. Golota returned in 2003, boxing irregularly until 2009, only to return at the beginning of 2013 – with a possible fight this year.

10. The Tyson-Golota fight is in record books as NC 3, because Tyson has obtained a positive marijuana test.

Evander Holyfield in Ko 3 James “Burster” Douglas
October 25, 1990; Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Do not watch this and expect one of the biggest fights in heavyweight history. Nevertheless, it’s worth visiting. Finishing with Holyfield, when he swayed from the Upper Upper Bulban, before he punished Douglas with his right hand, is very impressive, even if the master’s efforts of the uprising attracted understandable criticism at the time. There is also flashes – Buster’s stab and a wise right hand in the third round – about how great the fight it could be if Douglas regained his determination that fuel his victory over Mike Tyson, eight months earlier. Although the hangover has been destroying Douglas for years for years, Holyfield took a long time to generate the respect he deserved.

Do you know? The huge $ 200,000 was accepted by bookmakers for the Holyfield betting to win Douglas (at 246 pounds he was 15 pounds more than when he defeated Tyson) was revealed on the eve of the fight.

Watch out for: Things before the fight are captivating, just like the forecast of the legendary writer Bert Sugar, that Douglas will win. He is so satisfied and authoritative that you were forgiven twice checking the result.

Great massive ones risk their health and legacy in unsuccessful returning fights, they may seem like a contemporary phenomenon, but in 1966 a word when Rocky Marciano was to risk his excellent 49-0 record back to the ring at the age of 43. Although Rocky would be 15 years younger than Holdfield, he was at his non -payment exhibition last month.

“Talk about Rocky Marciano planning a return is comical,” Bn Joseph Simon on our Letters website. “Does Marciano, at the age of 43, seriously believe that he can defeat any best pretender, let alone clay? He should have three private fights and forced all three to retire. If this is true, then it still does not mean anything, because I do not believe that two boxers as Wayne Bethea and Bob Foster. Both of the second rample.

While Mr. Simon’s assessment by Mr. Simon was very wrong (despite the fact that he failed to assess heavyweight, Bob would become a great lithe in history), and its operate of clay (instead of Ali) two years obsolete, it is arduous to argue with his views on his views on the return of Marciano 11 years 11 years elderly. Fortunately, the return never happened, although the virtual return occurred when Marciano and Ali met in the gym in 1969 to make moves to fight fantasy, the result of which would be determined by the computer. The result remained a harsh secret until the film was released. The so -called “Super Fight” was shown in 1970, when we and Canadian audience saw Marciano Ko Ali in the 13th round. The way he resolved this result is unclear, but tragically rocky did not live to see it. He died in an air disaster last year, at the age of 45.

On the national front, this week in 1966, there were several known in action. In the London Anglo -American Sports Club October 17 Ayr’s Evan ArmstrongThe prevailing Scottish weight champion, showed his potential as a threat to the British letter of Walter McGowan, how he dealt with Orizu Obilaso from Nigeria, who retired in three. “If [Armstrong] He can keep his strength on the Bantam limit and tighten the defense, he could bother most of the leading men in Europe, “wrote BN reporter Evan to unsuccessfully challenged the British crown of Alan Rudkin in June 1969, and then won the title of feather in the 12th round of Jimmy Reva in July 1971.

That evening, fighting in London, the growing lithe Ken Buchanan caused that there were 14 plain wins as a professional, ahead of Brazil Antonio Paiva within 10 rounds in NSC. Noticing the development of Buchanan, BN noticed: “From a versatile versatile warrior with a useful offensive right, Scot was turned into a copy of his stable coal of his stable, Howard Winstone.” The glory of the British, European and world champion entered Ken, but was not the only future letter on the account.

Between Willie Turkington from Belfast and the Sterling bunny from ST Pancrras there was also a six -sinner. Turkington said a bunny to convey Jamaaan from London with his second defeat in two professionals. Sterling would also lose his third fight, and then helped an unusual career. In 1968 he was crowned the southern medium weight, and in 1970 he became the first immigrant British title letter since the BBBOFC formation. He would win the Lonsdale belt as well as the European crown.