Boxer Golota prepares for farewell fight
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
23.10.2014 11:15
Veteran heavyweight boxer Andrzej Golota will take on American Danell Nicholson on Saturday in what's being billed as the last fight of the Pole's career.
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Saturday's clash in Czestochowa, southern Poland, will be a show-fight, but Golota has been training hard, knocking off the pounds in preparation for the punch-up.
“I've already lost 12kg,” Golota revealed in an interview with Polish Radio.
Asked if his left jab is as strong as it used to be, he admitted that he's got some ground still to cover.
“No it's certainly isn't – it's still not as good as it once was, but it's getting there.”
Both Golota and Nicholson are now 46, and the Pole has only boxed once in the last four years, losing to fellow countryman Przemyslaw Saleta at Gdansk's Ergo Arena in February 2013.
However, it's over a decade since Nicholson stepped into the ring in 2003.
The two last faced each other in March 1996, when the Pole emerged as the victor, with the referee stopping the fight in the eighth round.
Golota won 41 of his career fights, including 33 knock-outs.
He won a bronze medal in the Seoul Olympics (1988), but he never managed to take the coveted World Champion's belt. (nh)