Andrew Golota (born Andrzej Gołota; 5 January 1968) is a Polish former professional boxer. As an amateur he won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1988 Olympics, and as a professional is a four-time world title challenger. Despite his accomplishments and more than 40 professional wins, Golota is best known for twice being disqualified against Riddick Bowe for low blows, for quitting on his stool twice (once against Mike Tyson), and for being knocked out by Lennox Lewis in the first round.
The Warsaw-born Golota had 111 wins in an amateur career that culminated in his winning a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Golota won other international amateur tournaments as well.
In 1990, he got into a fight with Piotr Białostocki in a bar in Poland. Facing charges of assault and battery, he fled rather than risk five years in prison. He was unable to return until matters were cleared up many years later. Later that year, he married an American citizen of Polish descent and settled in Chicago.
There's a game life plays
makes you think you're everything they ever said you were
Like to take some time
Clear away everything I planned
Was it life I betrayed
for the shape that I'm in
It's not hard to fail
it's not easy to win
did I drink too much
could I disappear
and there's nothing that's left but wasted years
There's nothing left but wasted years
If I could change my life
Be a simple kind of man try to do the best I can
if I could see the signs
I'd derail every path I could
now I'm about to die
won't you clear away from me
give me strength to fly away