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Andrew Golota returns to try to get back in to Heavyweight title contention taking on Jesse Ferguson on HBO Boxing After Dark. Plus interviews with Oscar De La Hoya and Ike Quartey previewing their upcoming TVKO PPV fight
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00:02:11Tonight on HBO's Boxing After Dark,
00:02:40you'll see comebacking Andrew Gulotta,
00:02:42hoping to again become a part of the heavyweight title picture,
00:02:45facing journeyman last-second throw-in Jesse Ferguson.
00:02:49Then, undefeated 26-year-old Michael Grant
00:02:51attempts to continue his rise up the heavyweight rank,
00:02:55taking on Syrian-born former sparring partner Ahmad Abdin.
00:02:59We're back in Atlantic City for a wintry night of boxing.
00:03:02The convention center ballroom filling with fans
00:03:04looking for possible contenders for the heavyweight throw.
00:03:07The king, of course, will be crowned next month
00:03:10when there's a winner in the unification bout
00:03:12between Holyfield and Lewis.
00:03:14A winner.
00:03:15And how is that to take place?
00:03:17Via a punch, we hope.
00:03:19Future contenders for the title, well,
00:03:21why not the winners in tonight's two bouts
00:03:24on Boxing After Dark?
00:03:26Hello again, everybody.
00:03:27I'm Jim Lampley.
00:03:28We welcome you to this all-heavyweight edition
00:03:30of the traditionally explosive Boxing After Dark series.
00:03:34Later tonight, in the second of our two main events,
00:03:36you'll see Michael Grant unanimously crowned
00:03:38as the next big thing in the heavyweight division
00:03:40as he takes on former sparring partner Ahmad Abdin.
00:03:44Grant coming off a layoff of several months
00:03:46occasioned by a bout with a hepatitis A infection.
00:03:50But before that, Andrew Gulotta,
00:03:52the mystery man of the heavyweight division,
00:03:54will be fighting against Jesse Ferguson,
00:03:56who was named as the opponent to replace
00:03:58the now-injured Jimmy Thunder just two days ago.
00:04:02working with me, as always, on Boxing After Dark,
00:04:05light heavyweight champion of the world,
00:04:07many people's choice as the best fighter in the sport,
00:04:09Roy Jones Jr. and Roy.
00:04:11Michael Grant is so unanimously regarded
00:04:15by boxing media, magazines, reporters, etc.,
00:04:18as the eventual successor to the heavyweight title,
00:04:22the man who follows the winner
00:04:23of the Lewis vs. Holyfield bout,
00:04:25that he's almost been pre-crowned in that regard.
00:04:28Is he, in effect, all that?
00:04:30Yes, I think he is, Jim.
00:04:31I think he's all that and some.
00:04:33I think Michael Grant has a perfect physique.
00:04:35He has the heart.
00:04:36And the biggest thing is that his experience
00:04:38came from fighting professionally,
00:04:41not from the amateur ranks,
00:04:43not doing something that's semi-professional,
00:04:45but came from actual fights in the ring
00:04:47as a professional fighter.
00:04:48That's the best place to learn to fight,
00:04:50and I think he's a well-rounded guy
00:04:52to be in the position that he's in.
00:04:54He's also been remarkably composed and collected
00:04:56in his career up to this point.
00:04:58Quite a contrast to the other man
00:05:00you'll be seeing tonight.
00:05:02The twilight zone of heavyweight contenders,
00:05:04Andrew Gulotta.
00:05:05It started in July of 1996
00:05:08when Gulotta burst on the scene
00:05:10in his first bout
00:05:11against heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe.
00:05:13Gulotta was ahead on points,
00:05:17dominating the bout on all three judges' scorecards,
00:05:19despite two deductions already for low blows
00:05:21when he was disqualified in the seventh round.
00:05:24The ensuing riot gave the sport a black eye,
00:05:28and there were more black eyes five months later
00:05:31when they met again in Atlantic City.
00:05:32A wild, roughhouse brawl.
00:05:34Again, Gulotta was leading on all three scorecards,
00:05:37despite point deductions for low blows.
00:05:39Again, he couldn't stop himself
00:05:40and was disqualified in the ninth round.
00:05:43Got a chance for redemption ten months later
00:05:45against Lennox Lewis here in Atlantic City,
00:05:47but it was bizarre.
00:05:49He showed up an hour and a half late
00:05:51to the arena before the fight
00:05:52and then froze in the first round
00:05:54and was pounded into oblivion by Lewis.
00:05:59So the first loss of his career
00:06:01by some process other than disqualification
00:06:04took place here in Atlantic City.
00:06:05Since that time, he has been winning
00:06:08as he tries them out a comeback to contender status.
00:06:11Here to talk more about Andrew Gulotta,
00:06:13HBO Boxing Analyst Larry Merchant.
00:06:15And Larry, there's never been any doubt
00:06:17since July of 96 when he had his first fight
00:06:20against Bo about Gulotta's ability
00:06:22and his possible impact on the division.
00:06:24What we wonder about is,
00:06:26will he ever escape his cocoon of self-destruction?
00:06:29Jim, it's something we all wonder
00:06:31whether or not he's going to stop
00:06:33throwing those banana cream pies
00:06:35into his own face.
00:06:38It is a puzzlement.
00:06:39To give him credit, in his most recent fights,
00:06:42none of them big, high-pressure fights,
00:06:45he has shown a more measured, controlled style.
00:06:49However, two days ago, Thursday,
00:06:52when he learned that Jesse Ferguson
00:06:54would substitute for the injured Jimmy Thunder,
00:06:57he went to his room, locked the door, and wept.
00:07:02His wife, who is a lawyer in Chicago,
00:07:04explained that he felt that it was a sign of disrespect
00:07:08that they would bring in a replacement
00:07:10that late in the going.
00:07:12She also had to finally convince him
00:07:15that it would be a terrible career move
00:07:18for him not to come out of the room and fight.
00:07:21Freaking out for Jesse Ferguson,
00:07:24maybe that's why he's called the boogeyman.
00:07:27Well, Jesse ought to be awfully flattered.
00:07:29They say Gulotta was locked in that room
00:07:31for more than an hour, right?
00:07:32And the cynic would say he's the first man
00:07:35ever to take as much as an hour
00:07:37to decide whether to fight Jesse the boogeyman Ferguson.
00:07:40But we'll see.
00:07:41Maybe Gulotta knows more than the rest of us
00:07:43as we get ready for this heavyweight bout,
00:07:45which could have a critical effect
00:07:47on Gulotta's eventual chances
00:07:49of rising back to contender status.
00:07:51And Andrew's Polish-American following
00:07:55is hugely in evidence here in the arena tonight.
00:07:58Once again, as has always been the case,
00:08:00when we cover him, there are red and white flags,
00:08:04red and white costumes all over the arena
00:08:07in tribute to his Polish,
00:08:10now Polish-American heritage.
00:08:13You know, another explanation,
00:08:15reading between the lines,
00:08:17for his inability to take a late substitute
00:08:21in a professional way the other night
00:08:23was that he really came here
00:08:26expecting to put on a show
00:08:29to look great against a fighter
00:08:32who seemed designed to help him look great,
00:08:35Thunder,
00:08:35and that he was distraught
00:08:37that he would fight somebody
00:08:39he hadn't prepared for
00:08:40and who might be hard to look good against.
00:08:43Well, and there are no shortage of critics,
00:08:45Roy Jones,
00:08:45who believe that Ferguson
00:08:47is a likely tougher opponent
00:08:49than Thunder would have been.
00:08:50Yeah, because Ferguson has been known
00:08:51as being an upset king in the sport of boxing.
00:08:54You know that's his self.
00:08:57So here's a look at Galata
00:08:58and a closer look at his background.
00:09:00You see that 10 years ago,
00:09:03he was a bronze medalist in the Olympics.
00:09:06He's lost only to champions,
00:09:084-0 in his comeback.
00:09:10And across the ring,
00:09:13the boogeyman who's had 17 losses,
00:09:16seven of them by knockout.
00:09:17Jesse has been knocked out
00:09:19by some of the biggest punchers
00:09:20in the heavyweight division,
00:09:21including Riddick Bowe
00:09:23and Mike Tyson years ago.
00:09:26He's fought a total of 10 heavyweights
00:09:27who held titles.
00:09:28Well, he was stopped by Bowe
00:09:30in his only title fight,
00:09:32fought 10 other heavyweights
00:09:34who had held titles
00:09:35once or one time or another,
00:09:37beat Buster Douglas 13 years ago,
00:09:39also beat Ray Mercer in a famous upset.
00:09:43And for a couple of years,
00:09:44he took off from competitive boxing
00:09:46to spar with Mike Tyson,
00:09:48and that proved profitable for him.
00:09:50He says he got the call
00:09:52a couple of days ago for this fight.
00:09:54He was in gym shape.
00:09:55That doesn't necessarily mean
00:09:57that he's in fighting shape.
00:09:59Tale of the tape
00:09:59between Galata and Ferguson
00:10:01and Jesse weighed in at 238,
00:10:04just, well, 239,
00:10:06a pound over Galata.
00:10:07Were he in fighting shape,
00:10:08he might have been just a few pounds
00:10:10south of there.
00:10:11You see the 10-year age advantage
00:10:12for Galata
00:10:13and the 6-inch reach advantage.
00:10:15Rules of the bout
00:10:15with our unofficial ringside scorer,
00:10:17Harold Ledema.
00:10:18Andrew Galata and Jesse Ferguson
00:10:20will fight tonight
00:10:20under the rules
00:10:21of the New Jersey Athletic Control Board.
00:10:23And it is the case, you know,
00:10:25and it is the case
00:10:27with any Andrew Galata fight.
00:10:28We must quickly point out
00:10:29that there is no rule
00:10:31concerning how many warnings
00:10:32referee Joe Cortez must give
00:10:33before he deducts a point.
00:10:34But if you get hit
00:10:36by a low blow
00:10:36and you get hurt,
00:10:37you have to continue
00:10:38after a reasonable amount of time
00:10:39up to five minutes
00:10:41or you lose.
00:10:42Jim, let's go up
00:10:42to ring announcer
00:10:43Michael Buffer
00:10:44for the pre-fight introductions.
00:10:49Ladies and gentlemen,
00:10:50by way of Bally's Park Place
00:10:52here in Atlantic City, New Jersey,
00:10:55welcome to heavyweight boxing
00:10:57brought to you by main events
00:10:58in association with
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00:11:07This first bout is presented
00:11:08in association
00:11:09with Ziggy Promotions.
00:11:11It is sanctioned
00:11:12by the New Jersey
00:11:12State Athletic Control Board
00:11:14Boxing Commissioner
00:11:15Larry Hazard Sr.
00:11:17Timekeeper at the bell
00:11:18for this contest
00:11:19is Roosevelt Gilbert.
00:11:20The three judges
00:11:21scoring this bout
00:11:22at ringside
00:11:24on a 10-point must system
00:11:26will be
00:11:26John Pottery,
00:11:28Hilton Whitaker,
00:11:30and Gene Williams.
00:11:32And when the bell rings,
00:11:33your referee in charge
00:11:35of the action,
00:11:36Joe Cortez.
00:11:38And now, ladies and gentlemen,
00:11:4010 rounds of boxing
00:11:42in the heavyweight division.
00:11:47Introducing first,
00:11:49coming out of the blue corner,
00:11:51wearing black,
00:11:52hidden with white.
00:11:53He weighs 239 pounds.
00:11:56His professional record,
00:11:5743 bouts,
00:11:5956 victories,
00:12:0116 by knockout,
00:12:02with 17 losses.
00:12:04From Philadelphia,
00:12:05Pennsylvania,
00:12:07here is the veteran heavyweight,
00:12:09Jesse
00:12:10Cooking Man Ferguson.
00:12:13And his opponent across the ring,
00:12:21fighting out of the red corner,
00:12:23wearing white,
00:12:24trimmed with red.
00:12:25He weighs 238 pounds.
00:12:28His professional record,
00:12:2932 victories,
00:12:31with 27 knockouts to his credit,
00:12:33only three defeats.
00:12:35Presenting the seventh-ranked heavyweight
00:12:38in the world,
00:12:38from Warsaw, Poland,
00:12:41Andrew Golaha.
00:12:45All right, gentlemen.
00:13:03Andrew,
00:13:04we're going to lose in the dressing room.
00:13:06I expect a good, clean fight.
00:13:10I expect good sportsman-like conduct
00:13:12from both of you.
00:13:13You understood?
00:13:16Coffee is a little high.
00:13:18Here's good.
00:13:20It's a little high.
00:13:21Here's that.
00:13:22We got it.
00:13:23All right?
00:13:25Take your hands.
00:13:26Give me good sportsman-like conduct.
00:13:27Touch him up.
00:13:27Okay.
00:13:30If you can fight
00:13:31and you're ready to fight,
00:13:33Jesse Ferguson is a good opponent.
00:13:36If you can't fight
00:13:37or you're not ready to fight,
00:13:39he's the wrong opponent.
00:13:45Interesting harbinger
00:13:47of something later to come tonight.
00:13:49You saw Joe Cortez
00:13:50talking to Jesse the Boogeyman
00:13:52about the height
00:13:53of his protective cup.
00:13:56And that's a subject
00:13:58for Grant's opponent,
00:13:59Ahmad Abdin,
00:14:00who believes that Michael Grant
00:14:01gets an unfair advantage
00:14:02in wearing that up around
00:14:04his chest in most fights.
00:14:07I guess he's coming out right now
00:14:09to let Golada know
00:14:11that he's in a fight.
00:14:12Maybe try to hurt him.
00:14:15Maybe his only chance.
00:14:18He may not be in shape
00:14:19to go a full 10-round tonight
00:14:21being that he took the fight
00:14:23on such a short notice.
00:14:25Ferguson says he had
00:14:26an inkling weeks ago
00:14:28that something might happen
00:14:29to Thunder
00:14:30and that as he trained
00:14:31in the gym
00:14:32for the past couple of weeks,
00:14:33he was keeping in the back
00:14:35of his mind
00:14:36the possibility
00:14:37of stepping up
00:14:38into this opportunity.
00:14:39I'm sure he's had
00:14:40these opportunities
00:14:41to come at him
00:14:42several times before that,
00:14:43so he knows that
00:14:44if he stays in shape,
00:14:46that he may get an opportunity.
00:14:47And if he does,
00:14:48he wants to be there
00:14:49to answer.
00:14:49And he's respected
00:14:52by matchmakers
00:14:53despite his 17 losses
00:14:55as a professional
00:14:56who will give you
00:14:57an effort.
00:14:58This despite the fact
00:14:59that many believe
00:15:00he did not make an effort
00:15:01in his two-round knockout loss
00:15:03to Riddick Bowe
00:15:04when he had a big chance
00:15:06to fight for the heavyweight title.
00:15:07Well, there were
00:15:08different circumstances.
00:15:09It's like the boogeyman
00:15:09likes to come out at night,
00:15:11but a bright light
00:15:12got shined on him
00:15:13all of a sudden
00:15:14when he came out
00:15:14to fight Riddick Bowe.
00:15:15So it kind of
00:15:16put him in shock.
00:15:17Yeah, and Riddick Bowe
00:15:18was a hell of a fighter
00:15:19at that time.
00:15:24It was the second
00:15:25of Bowe's title defenses
00:15:26after he first took
00:15:27the title from
00:15:28Evander Holyfield
00:15:29in November of 92.
00:15:30First he fought
00:15:31against Michael Dokes
00:15:32in Madison Square Garden
00:15:33and in Ferguson
00:15:35in Washington, D.C.
00:15:36Now, Golada
00:15:37throwing right hands
00:15:39over the top.
00:15:40In his victory
00:15:40over Tim Witherspoon
00:15:42a few months ago,
00:15:43Golada fought
00:15:44remarkably controlled
00:15:45boxer-like performance.
00:15:50And when Golada
00:15:51gets his jab going,
00:15:53there aren't too many
00:15:54heavyweights
00:15:55who could do anything
00:15:55about it.
00:15:57When he gets the rhythm
00:15:57on his jab,
00:15:58he's very tough
00:15:59to contend with.
00:16:00Yeah, he is.
00:16:01Mainly because he has
00:16:02such a big frame.
00:16:03He's a big heavyweight.
00:16:04He's not a little guy.
00:16:05Once he gets those
00:16:06long arms to him,
00:16:07it's hard for the shorter guys
00:16:08to get up with them.
00:16:09He's hurting,
00:16:09Jesse, right here.
00:16:10He's throwing
00:16:11some heavy shots,
00:16:13complete control,
00:16:14good short,
00:16:15hard shots
00:16:16from Golada.
00:16:18Ferguson may not
00:16:19get the kinds
00:16:19of opportunities
00:16:20he hoped for
00:16:21sneaking in here
00:16:22at the last minute.
00:16:23Golada off to a good start
00:16:25in round one
00:16:26with the jab,
00:16:27the right over the top,
00:16:28and the occasional
00:16:29left hook.
00:16:31The one punch
00:16:31he's never really learned
00:16:33to throw well
00:16:33is an uppercut.
00:16:35The young person
00:16:36can hurt Golada
00:16:36every time he throws.
00:16:37I mean, hurt the boogies
00:16:39every time he gets hit.
00:16:40It's the second time
00:16:41he staggered Ferguson
00:16:43in the round.
00:16:44This is a big, big round
00:16:45for Golada.
00:16:47A two-point round.
00:16:49And Golada keeping the pressure
00:16:51on down the stretch
00:16:52of the round.
00:16:53Ferguson seemed to expect
00:16:55him to back off
00:16:56at some point,
00:16:56but Andrew never did.
00:16:59But Andrew never did.
00:17:06Come here, ladies.
00:17:06You're hugging in the box.
00:17:07Real good, all right?
00:17:09Jab, start looking for that
00:17:10jab to hook the spot.
00:17:12Right hand,
00:17:13hook the body,
00:17:13hook the hand.
00:17:14That's that?
00:17:19You're doing good.
00:17:20And the other thing is,
00:17:21keep your left hand up.
00:17:23He's always throwing
00:17:23it to the overhand right.
00:17:25I don't want you
00:17:25on the ropes.
00:17:26Stay off of the ropes.
00:17:28All right?
00:17:29Don't wait on this guy.
00:17:31You're letting him
00:17:32get brave.
00:17:34Don't let him get brave.
00:17:35Andrew Golada seems
00:17:37to have emerged
00:17:38from his crying jag
00:17:40and the fetal position
00:17:41very, very well.
00:17:44A very strong first round.
00:17:48He's ready to fight.
00:17:50Target practice.
00:17:52Golada throwing 97 punches
00:17:54in round one.
00:17:55Heavyweight average
00:17:56is about 50 to 55.
00:17:58Golada has been active
00:18:00when he's on the beam
00:18:01in the past,
00:18:02but never at that level.
00:18:0397 punches in round one.
00:18:0551 connected
00:18:06by Andrew Golada.
00:18:07I also think he might be
00:18:12a little bit quicker
00:18:14at this weight
00:18:15down around 238
00:18:17than he was
00:18:18up in the mid-240s.
00:18:23Oh, that was a good move.
00:18:24Roy was talking about
00:18:25Golada's big frame
00:18:27and just to emphasize
00:18:29the point, Roy,
00:18:30it's not just that he's big.
00:18:31He's an athlete.
00:18:32He's quick.
00:18:32He has good foot movement.
00:18:34He's probably as gifted
00:18:36an athlete as any of the
00:18:37top big heavyweights,
00:18:39including Grant.
00:18:39Yes, he is.
00:18:41You don't see much
00:18:41fat on his body.
00:18:43He's got a bloody nose,
00:18:44incidentally,
00:18:44so Jesse did hit him.
00:18:46Yep.
00:18:46But one thing I notice here,
00:18:49he hasn't thrown a body punch
00:18:50that I can recall.
00:18:52Well, maybe that's their
00:18:53insurance against the low blows.
00:18:56You'll recall in the middle
00:18:58rounds of Bo Golada, too,
00:18:59Lou Duva yelling at him,
00:19:01don't throw a single punch
00:19:02to the body.
00:19:03But they couldn't stop him
00:19:04from delivering the low blows.
00:19:07Pressure and fatigue
00:19:08will make you do things
00:19:10you don't want to do.
00:19:12Almost launched an uppercut there.
00:19:14Pulled it back.
00:19:16Pulled it back.
00:19:27Ferguson a considerably
00:19:28sneakier and more flexible
00:19:32fighter than Jimmy Thunder.
00:19:33Thunder's essentially
00:19:34a one-note tune who comes
00:19:35in, goes straight forward,
00:19:36and hopes that his power
00:19:38will deliver something
00:19:39big for him.
00:19:40Jesse has many more
00:19:41tricks than that.
00:19:43And perhaps that's one
00:19:44of the reasons that
00:19:45Golada felt disrespect
00:19:46by the last-minute change.
00:19:48It was Golada's
00:19:50second low blow
00:19:54according to the referee.
00:19:56There was one a little
00:19:58earlier in the round.
00:20:00And look for Ferguson
00:20:01to maximize the drama
00:20:03in every one of them.
00:20:06Andrew! Andrew!
00:20:07Come on, Paul!
00:20:07Certainly one of the things
00:20:08that Jesse would have thought
00:20:09of coming in tonight
00:20:10is can he get under
00:20:11Golada's skin somehow?
00:20:12You can't win a fight on a low blow.
00:20:15I'm not trying to!
00:20:17Okay.
00:20:17You walk around.
00:20:19Walk around.
00:20:20Walk around.
00:20:20You have a little rest.
00:20:21I'm going to hit him left.
00:20:23Don't hit him back,
00:20:23but then I don't want to
00:20:24make a punch for you.
00:20:25Don't be starting to retaliate.
00:20:27Harold Letterman,
00:20:28quickly the rule.
00:20:29Jim, he's got up to five minutes,
00:20:31Jesse Ferguson.
00:20:32He can't win.
00:20:32If he doesn't continue,
00:20:33he loses by a bandit.
00:20:34He has to continue.
00:20:35I don't know.
00:20:39If I was Jesse,
00:20:40I might try one
00:20:41along the border someplace
00:20:42just to see if I can
00:20:44get him upset.
00:20:45He just told him
00:20:45I'm going to hit him back.
00:20:48The referee said,
00:20:48don't you do that.
00:20:49I'll take a point from you.
00:20:50So what?
00:20:52I would have never said
00:20:53anything to the referee about him.
00:20:54Harold Letterman lands again.
00:20:56That was a terrific
00:20:57left hook inside by Golada.
00:20:59Ferguson reeled backward,
00:21:00but now Jesse keeps
00:21:01coming forward again.
00:21:05My guess is we're not
00:21:11going to see too many
00:21:12more body punches
00:21:13from Golada.
00:21:14He doesn't need them
00:21:14in this fight.
00:21:30A low blow by Ferguson
00:21:32there,
00:21:32but it didn't really connect.
00:21:35Take a look at the
00:21:57more obvious of the
00:21:59two low blows
00:22:01that Golada landed
00:22:03in that fight.
00:22:03One thing I noticed there,
00:22:05Roy,
00:22:05was he did dip his shoulder
00:22:07and try to throw
00:22:08that punch correctly.
00:22:10No more body shots.
00:22:11No more body shots.
00:22:13That's not the way
00:22:13it wound up.
00:22:14Hit him right there.
00:22:16And you see the
00:22:17lock-sided punch
00:22:18at numbers
00:22:19through round number two.
00:22:21Keep hitting him
00:22:21with the jab.
00:22:22Golada has a scar
00:22:23on the back of his head
00:22:25that I believe
00:22:26is from the cell phone
00:22:27with which he was
00:22:28attacked in the riot
00:22:29back on July 11, 1996.
00:22:32Round three of the
00:22:48scheduled ten.
00:22:51Second fight tonight
00:22:52is scheduled for 12 rounds.
00:22:54Grant against Abdeen.
00:22:55I can't say that I've seen
00:23:09Golada show this much
00:23:10poise in a long time.
00:23:13He seems to be well under
00:23:14control of everything he's doing.
00:23:15similar to the control
00:23:21he showed in his
00:23:22route-going performance
00:23:23against Witherspoon
00:23:25in Warsaw,
00:23:27October 2.
00:23:30Hard right hand
00:23:31lands for Golada.
00:23:32Harrison backing up.
00:23:35Andrew trying here
00:23:36to join Carl Williams,
00:23:38Mike Tyson,
00:23:39Bruce Seldon,
00:23:39Riddick Bowe,
00:23:40Frank Bruno,
00:23:41Jeremy Williams,
00:23:42and Danell Nicholson
00:23:44among heavyweights
00:23:45to have knocked
00:23:45Jesse Ferguson out.
00:23:48Almost all of them
00:23:49pretty good bunches.
00:24:04Jesse with a swelling mark
00:24:07around the right eye
00:24:09where some of the left hooks
00:24:12have done damage.
00:24:17Ferguson's last fight
00:24:19was an upset
00:24:19of Obed Sullivan,
00:24:21once a top ten fighter.
00:24:24So he's
00:24:25come into this fight
00:24:27saying,
00:24:27I'm just maturing
00:24:28as a fighter.
00:24:29But right now,
00:24:33Golada's knocking
00:24:34the maturity
00:24:35right out of him
00:24:36to say nothing
00:24:38of other things.
00:24:39You know,
00:24:39sometimes,
00:24:39the guys that come
00:24:40to the fights,
00:24:41the older guys,
00:24:42you never know
00:24:43when they're gonna come there
00:24:44and start to really
00:24:44look their age.
00:24:46And tonight,
00:24:46Jesse is sort of
00:24:47looking his age.
00:24:4841,
00:24:49although he thinks
00:24:50that at 41,
00:24:52he's a better fighter
00:24:53than he was
00:24:5415 years ago.
00:24:55We're gonna do it.
00:24:56We're gonna do it.
00:24:57He could be
00:25:01a better thinking fighter
00:25:02than he was
00:25:0215 years ago.
00:25:04Got a relatively late start
00:25:05in his professional career.
00:25:07Had a pitched battle
00:25:09with Carl the Truth Williams
00:25:10and Williams
00:25:10knocked him out late.
00:25:12Off his performance there,
00:25:13Jesse got a chance
00:25:15to be the opponent
00:25:16in February 1986
00:25:17against a very young
00:25:19heavyweight prospect
00:25:20named Mike Tyson.
00:25:22And a lot of people
00:25:22will remember
00:25:23that Tyson fight.
00:25:24It was his network
00:25:25television debut
00:25:26on ABC
00:25:26and it was the fight
00:25:28after which he said
00:25:29I was trying to drive
00:25:30his nose bone
00:25:31into his brain
00:25:32describing the intention
00:25:33of his uppercut punch.
00:25:36Still to come tonight,
00:25:37Michael Grant
00:25:38will try to drive
00:25:39Ahmad Abdin's nose bone
00:25:42into his brain
00:25:42or something similar
00:25:44as he takes on
00:25:46his former sparring partner.
00:25:48Grant's return to the ring
00:25:49after several months
00:25:51of layoff
00:25:51and a hepatitis A infection.
00:25:53And a hepatitis A infection.
00:25:54Right?
00:25:54Huh?
00:25:55We want your neck?
00:25:56Yes.
00:25:57Yes.
00:25:57Keep your feet right.
00:25:59Ready?
00:25:59Get set.
00:26:00Do you understand me?
00:26:01Let's get off
00:26:01of them combinations now.
00:26:03Find your range!
00:26:04Okay.
00:26:04Huh?
00:26:05Feet grip.
00:26:06Pop the jab.
00:26:06Pop the jab.
00:26:07Find your range.
00:26:08Keep your feet right.
00:26:09All right.
00:26:09Isn't that jab,
00:26:10when he drops the head down,
00:26:12uppercut up under the chin?
00:26:14Okay?
00:26:15Forget about the body.
00:26:15What's going on?
00:26:16Left uppercut.
00:26:17Double jab.
00:26:18Left uppercut under the chin.
00:26:19Let's go.
00:26:25Let's go lose.
00:26:26Let's clean our corner.
00:26:27Let's go lose.
00:26:36Jesse, the boogeyman, Ferguson,
00:26:38heaving just a little bit
00:26:39as he comes out for round four
00:26:41against Andrew Gallata.
00:26:46Gallata set the pace
00:26:47with a sizzling round one
00:26:50throwing 97 punches
00:26:51and hasn't much let up
00:26:52since then.
00:26:53Harold Lederman,
00:26:54how do you have it
00:26:54through three?
00:26:55You know, Jim,
00:26:55I don't know what he was
00:26:56crying about.
00:26:57I think he looks like
00:26:57a million dollars.
00:26:58Three to nothing.
00:26:5930 to 27, Andrew Gallata.
00:27:01I tell you, Jim,
00:27:02if you told me
00:27:03that any of these judges
00:27:04had all 10-8 rounds,
00:27:05I'd agree with him.
00:27:06I mean, Andrew Gallata
00:27:07is very, very close
00:27:08to a 10-8 round
00:27:09at all three rounds.
00:27:09He's probably dominating
00:27:10your fight.
00:27:11Looks like a million dollars.
00:27:12Give him a look, Jesse.
00:27:13Give him a look.
00:27:14Give him a look.
00:27:16Give him a look.
00:27:16A lot of contingents
00:27:29in the upper deck.
00:27:32Just craving the moment
00:27:34when they can break out
00:27:35the flags
00:27:35and start chanting again.
00:27:37It's a little dull
00:27:38for that right now.
00:27:43Most of them
00:27:43still on their feet
00:27:44as they watch their man.
00:27:56A lot of people
00:27:57just wrote Gallata off
00:27:58after the Lewis experience,
00:28:00figuring that if he had not
00:28:02been psychologically broken
00:28:03by all of his
00:28:05self-destructiveness
00:28:05before that,
00:28:06surely this would be
00:28:08the straw that breaks
00:28:09the Campbell's back.
00:28:10As Larry has pointed out,
00:28:12the Galeidocane shot
00:28:13just hours before
00:28:15coming to the arena
00:28:16to fight against Lewis,
00:28:17arrived an hour and a half late,
00:28:19didn't adequately warm up.
00:28:20He says that he felt
00:28:21as though he was in a daze
00:28:23walking into the ring
00:28:24that night.
00:28:25It wasn't just an alibi,
00:28:27the normal price fight
00:28:29alibi either, Jim,
00:28:31because if you recall,
00:28:33after the fight,
00:28:33he suffered a seizure.
00:28:34He was taken out
00:28:36on a stretcher
00:28:37and that's when
00:28:38they found the connection
00:28:39between the drug
00:28:40he had taken
00:28:41and the knockout.
00:28:45He took so many
00:28:47big, good punches
00:28:48from Riddick Bowe,
00:28:49I'm a little hesitant
00:28:50to say that this is
00:28:52a guy with a bad jaw.
00:28:54I wouldn't say
00:28:55he was a guy
00:28:55with a bad jaw,
00:28:57but then this is a guy
00:28:58with a good punch.
00:28:59Big punch.
00:29:00Yeah.
00:29:00And to the degree
00:29:02that a fighter freezes
00:29:04in a situation like that,
00:29:05Galata froze.
00:29:07Well, he was unprofessional
00:29:09in taking that shot.
00:29:11Neither Lou Duva
00:29:12nor anyone else
00:29:13in the corner
00:29:13or his handlers
00:29:15knew about it.
00:29:16It was something
00:29:17he had arranged privately,
00:29:19resulting in a
00:29:21$23 million lawsuit,
00:29:23I understand,
00:29:23against the doctor
00:29:24who administered it.
00:29:27Round four coming
00:29:28to a close.
00:29:28Jesse Ferguson
00:29:29taking a solid beating
00:29:31from Anthony Rolano
00:29:33but standing his ground.
00:29:37All right, good round.
00:29:38Good round.
00:29:43That was good.
00:29:45You changed speeds on him.
00:29:46I want you to change speeds
00:29:47on him a little bit
00:29:47in this round.
00:29:49No, no, no, no.
00:29:52Calm down.
00:29:54Let's see what I'm saying.
00:29:55That was a good round.
00:29:56You changed speeds up.
00:29:57When you change speeds on him,
00:29:58you're hurting.
00:29:59But I don't want you
00:30:00standing right directly
00:30:01in front of him
00:30:02trying to create a powerpoint.
00:30:03I want you stepping around him.
00:30:05This room.
00:30:05This room of what?
00:30:06You behind, man.
00:30:07Come on.
00:30:08We got to...
00:30:08Come on.
00:30:10Get a rinse.
00:30:12Hurry up.
00:30:13Come on.
00:30:14Come on.
00:30:15We can get this guy now, man.
00:30:16You're waiting too long, man.
00:30:18Come on, man.
00:30:18All right.
00:30:19Come on.
00:30:19Hey.
00:30:19Come on.
00:30:20Let's do it, man.
00:30:20You're blowing it.
00:30:22Come on, man.
00:30:22Right now, the only question appears to be
00:30:30whether Gulotta can finish Ferguson in style.
00:30:36Oh, hold on.
00:30:37Hold on.
00:30:38Come on, guys.
00:30:40All right.
00:30:40Time in.
00:30:41Let's go.
00:30:41Momentary delay while Cortez waited
00:30:45for Lou Duvland and Ronnie Shields
00:30:48to exit the ring in Gulotta's corner.
00:30:55You always have to wonder in a fight like this,
00:30:56will Gulotta get bored and get caught
00:30:58with a big punch, too, though?
00:31:01Well, or will he get disqualified?
00:31:04You have to regard it as at least a possibility
00:31:07in every one of his fights.
00:31:08Even prior to his self-destruction
00:31:12against Bowe in July of 96
00:31:14when he was winning the fight easily
00:31:16and was disqualified on low blows the first time,
00:31:19even prior to that,
00:31:20he had purposely head-butted Donnell Nicholson
00:31:23in a fight that he was winning easily.
00:31:25He had purposely bitten Samson Pauha on the shoulder
00:31:28in a fight that he was winning easily.
00:31:30So this guy can go off at any moment,
00:31:32and it doesn't matter whether he's winning or losing.
00:31:34Yeah, but he seems to be showing a lot more control tonight
00:31:37than he did in those fights in the early rounds.
00:31:42I think and I hope he learned his lesson.
00:31:45And I don't think we'll be seeing
00:31:47any more of that from Andrew.
00:31:48Gulotta's wife is a Polish-born,
00:31:51American-practicing attorney,
00:31:54and she is clearly the common-sense conduit
00:31:58through which his handlers
00:31:59and the people around him try to communicate
00:32:01and hope to establish some solid ground.
00:32:06In our meetings with Gulotta,
00:32:09the norm is that he begins the answer to each question,
00:32:12and then either Lou Duva or his wife
00:32:14finishes the answer for him.
00:32:16Ferguson appears intent on just hanging around
00:32:29and seeing what strange things are going to happen.
00:32:32Yeah, he doesn't even seem to have much steam
00:32:34on his punches now.
00:32:35Jesse trying to step around
00:32:47to land the left hook to the body,
00:32:49but doing so almost in slow motion.
00:32:51That was a pretty good hook by the boogie man.
00:33:07And there's some life
00:33:08doubling up on the left hook.
00:33:17He just can't seem to get out of the way
00:33:20of Andrew's straight-right lead.
00:33:22When Andrew steps up
00:33:24and begins pumping his jab
00:33:26and working behind it,
00:33:27Ferguson can't throw.
00:33:30So it's jab, jab, right hand.
00:33:33And the right hand lands every time.
00:33:42Gulotta landed a punch just after the bell.
00:33:46Ferguson reached around the referee
00:33:48to retaliate.
00:33:50The referee is taking a point away from him.
00:33:52So Ferguson is the first
00:33:54to be penalized in the fight.
00:33:57There have been warnings to Gulotta
00:33:59for low lows,
00:34:01but it's Jesse who takes
00:34:02the first point penalty.
00:34:03Make this fight easy.
00:34:05Make it easy.
00:34:06Step around him now.
00:34:07Use your legs as right.
00:34:08He's tired.
00:34:09Make him come to you.
00:34:11That wasn't that late of a punch.
00:34:21Obviously, it was thrown just at
00:34:23or a millisecond before the bell rang.
00:34:29Yes, and it could be that
00:34:31Ferguson is anxious to capitalize
00:34:33on any opportunity to create havoc
00:34:35in the ring
00:34:36and get the lot outside of his envelope.
00:34:41Well, he's probably a little frustrated right now.
00:34:43Nothing seems to be going his way.
00:34:45And sometimes when a guy gets
00:34:47to this point in a fight,
00:34:48it's easy for anything
00:34:49to make him go off.
00:34:51Ferguson landed 19 punches
00:34:53in round number five.
00:34:54That's by far
00:34:55his best round in the bout,
00:34:57but Gulotta landed 31 of 68.
00:34:59So Andrew continues to dominate
00:35:02both in terms of CompuVox numbers
00:35:04and the subjective impression
00:35:06of what we're seeing in the ring.
00:35:08And Ferguson continues to hang in,
00:35:10hoping to be the beneficiary
00:35:11of something strange.
00:35:15His punches, his power punches
00:35:17don't seem to hurt Andrew at all.
00:35:24Jesse trying to duck the right hand.
00:35:27And Gulotta still landing.
00:35:29With constant accuracy there.
00:35:34As in that right hand.
00:35:41Is Jesse looking to set him up
00:35:42for something, Roy?
00:35:44Jesse's looking for one punch
00:35:45to try to hurt Gulotta,
00:35:46but I don't really think
00:35:47his punching power
00:35:48is the same as it usually is.
00:35:51I don't think he can hurt Gulotta
00:35:53with a power punch right there.
00:35:56I think there's a cut
00:35:58over Ferguson's left eye.
00:35:59That'll mean that cut man
00:36:02Willie Folk
00:36:03will have to go to work
00:36:04to help keep him in the fight.
00:36:08And I think it came
00:36:09from the overhand right.
00:36:11That would make sense, yeah?
00:36:15I think that cut
00:36:16is below the eyebrow.
00:36:19Makes it a tough place
00:36:20for cut man Willie Folk
00:36:22to do his job.
00:36:31Ferguson has taken a real beating here.
00:36:33Chocking right hand by Gulotta.
00:36:36Now, one of the things
00:36:37I was curious about
00:36:38was whether Gulotta,
00:36:40in his eagerness
00:36:42to be more controlled than measured,
00:36:44would lose his aggression.
00:36:46but he's showing
00:36:47here at least
00:36:48against Jesse Ferguson
00:36:50that he has a good balance
00:36:52between boxing him
00:36:54and aggressing him.
00:36:57And he's still
00:37:03defending himself very well.
00:37:04So if he worried
00:37:05that he wasn't
00:37:06going to be able
00:37:07to look good
00:37:07against Ferguson,
00:37:09so far that concern
00:37:10appears unfounded.
00:37:13Both of our experts
00:37:14impressed with what
00:37:16they see of Gulotta here.
00:37:17And last, Jesse Ferguson
00:37:31fought on this network
00:37:32against Samson Pouha.
00:37:35I mistakenly identified
00:37:36his cut man as Leon Tabb
00:37:38because that was the information
00:37:39I'd been given.
00:37:40Leon wasn't there that night.
00:37:41Willie Folk was.
00:37:42And Willie Folk is here again tonight.
00:37:44Didn't he fight again?
00:37:45This month,
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00:37:47we'll investigate
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00:37:49which take in hundreds
00:37:50of millions of dollars
00:37:51in illegal sports bets.
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00:37:54and often frustrating life
00:37:55of an NFL assistant coach.
00:37:57If you missed the premiere
00:37:58this week,
00:37:59you can catch it January 31
00:38:00and then again
00:38:02on February 4,
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00:38:05I'll see you next time.
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00:38:10I'll see you next time.
00:38:11You okay?
00:38:11Jesse?
00:38:12Oh yeah.
00:38:12I'm here to protect you
00:38:14from taking out
00:38:14serious punishment.
00:38:15That's my job in here.
00:38:16Close your mouth.
00:38:17Yes.
00:38:18What about this one?
00:38:19Jesse,
00:38:19you're not working hard enough,
00:38:21Jesse,
00:38:21and you're not keeping
00:38:22your feet right.
00:38:23That's what's making
00:38:23you look bad.
00:38:25You understand?
00:38:25Keep your feet right
00:38:26and work off the jab.
00:38:27And shake it.
00:38:29Come on, Jesse.
00:38:30You're about to do it.
00:38:30My recollection, Jim,
00:38:33is that Jesse also
00:38:35wins against Hasim Rahman,
00:38:38if you recall.
00:38:40Yeah.
00:38:41A difficult, grueling fight.
00:38:46Won by Rahman.
00:38:47Won easily by Rahman.
00:38:50You know, this fight,
00:38:53you know,
00:38:53as far as anything we can tell,
00:38:56barring the unforeseen,
00:38:58which you never can fully bar
00:38:59with Gulotta,
00:39:00is really over.
00:39:05I mean,
00:39:05it has been for several rounds,
00:39:07almost from the start.
00:39:09Gulotta is simply
00:39:10outclassing him.
00:39:13The only question here
00:39:14is whether he can
00:39:15go out in style.
00:39:18Chopping right hand again
00:39:19lands for Gulotta
00:39:20up behind Ferguson's left ear.
00:39:24It was fascinating
00:39:25between rounds
00:39:26to hear trainer Roman Fuller
00:39:28asking Jesse
00:39:29to just set his feet
00:39:30in the right position
00:39:31and work behind the jab.
00:39:32I don't think I've seen him
00:39:33make a legitimate effort
00:39:34to land the jab
00:39:35against Gulotta
00:39:36yet in the fight.
00:39:39No, but Gulotta's making him
00:39:41keep that left hand
00:39:42at home to defend himself.
00:39:45Ferguson has fired
00:39:46some left hooks,
00:39:47generally in retaliation
00:39:49after Gulotta
00:39:49and Gulotta has landed
00:39:50a combination.
00:39:52Gulotta flirting
00:39:52with body punches
00:39:53again there.
00:39:54And Ferguson comes upstairs
00:39:56and lands a right hand.
00:40:02Certainly,
00:40:03Gulotta unruffled
00:40:04when Ferguson lands a punch.
00:40:07And remember that
00:40:08Jesse got the notice
00:40:09two days ago
00:40:11and accepted the opportunity
00:40:12to fight
00:40:12despite the fact
00:40:13he was in gym shape,
00:40:15not really fighting shape.
00:40:25As this fight goes on,
00:40:28it looks more and more like
00:40:29Gulotta's a big
00:40:31four-wheel drive
00:40:34sport vehicle
00:40:36and Jesse a very used car.
00:40:42Cortez again
00:40:43warning Gulotta
00:40:43for blows to Ferguson's hip
00:40:45but no point deduction.
00:40:47Again,
00:40:47the only point deduction
00:40:48in the bout so far
00:40:49against Ferguson
00:40:50for attempting to hit
00:40:51after the bell.
00:40:52Bring it, bring it, bring it, bring it.
00:40:53Bring it, bring it, bring it.
00:40:54Bring it, bring it, bring it.
00:40:55Bring it, bring it.
00:40:55The cup is up too high.
00:40:57Let's go.
00:40:57Come on, let's go.
00:41:02Come on, let's go.
00:41:04Look down, let's go.
00:41:20On the basis of what
00:41:21we have seen so far,
00:41:22Gulotta has earned
00:41:23another look
00:41:25against a higher quality opponent.
00:41:28I agree with that.
00:41:34A lot of distance across the top of the right hand.
00:41:39Joe Cortez, well aware that Ferguson wants to create havoc in there,
00:41:43just flings Jesse out of the way.
00:41:49Larry, here's a look at Galada against Tim Witherspoon back in October.
00:41:53Yeah, and he fought a very similar fight against a more dangerous,
00:41:59higher-level opponent who was also at the end of his career.
00:42:04Dominated Witherspoon, Witherspoon looking to land a big right hand in the fight,
00:42:09never did anything such a different.
00:42:10Let's make it a little bit easier, all right?
00:42:11Let's see a little more movement to the left.
00:42:13The overhand right has killed me.
00:42:15Sometimes come back.
00:42:16Nobody shot.
00:42:17Forget about it.
00:42:18You don't need it.
00:42:19Uppercut.
00:42:20Jab right, uppercut.
00:42:22Overhand right, left uppercut.
00:42:24Jab, overhand right, left uppercut.
00:42:26Anything.
00:42:27All right, so he's up.
00:42:29Yeah, he's picking up now, Judgey.
00:42:30You're only throwing one if you touch.
00:42:32Through seven rounds so far by CompuBox numbers,
00:42:37Galada has doubled Ferguson in punch output, 533 to 266,
00:42:42and more than tripled him in connections.
00:42:44Galada landing 264 punches, only 83 for Ferguson.
00:42:48Jabs, forget it.
00:42:49Galada, 106 out of 226.
00:42:51So it's a CompuBox wipeout with Andrew Galada easily beating Jesse Ferguson,
00:42:57going into the eighth.
00:42:58Harold Letterman, how do you have it through seven?
00:43:00I got it a shout-out, Jim.
00:43:0170 to 62.
00:43:03Andrew Galada, seven rounds to nothing.
00:43:04Jim, two things I want to point out to you.
00:43:06Number one, even though the punch came after the bell, ending the fifth round,
00:43:10that the fifth round was over, the point comes off of Jesse Ferguson's score for the fifth round,
00:43:16not the sixth.
00:43:17So Joe Cortez took that point at the end of the fifth.
00:43:19It comes off Ferguson's score for the fifth round.
00:43:21And the second thing is I always talk about ring generalship.
00:43:24Watch the way Andrew Galada steps to his right hand to stay away from Jesse Ferguson's big right hand.
00:43:31That's good ring generalship.
00:43:32You've got to give Galada credit for that.
00:43:50Well, Larry, Galada's been mentioned by some people as a possible opponent for Mike Tyson
00:43:56as Tyson tries to make his way back toward prominence in the division.
00:43:59Off what you see tonight, do you think Tyson's people would consider putting Mike in with Galada?
00:44:05It's a good question.
00:44:08What the Wags were saying was that if Galada looked too good, he would never get the fight
00:44:12because Tyson's handlers are not that interested in putting him in with a good fighter yet
00:44:19or a dangerous fighter or a highly skilled one.
00:44:23I'm not sure what they think.
00:44:25He certainly is more dangerous than a lot of the other opponents I've heard as possibles for Tyson.
00:44:35Does he look as good to you, Roy, as he looked in 1996 when he was dominating Riddick Bowe at close range?
00:44:42He looks even better to me because he has to do two things.
00:44:45He has to remain in control of what he's doing.
00:44:48But he also has to move around the boogeyman to make sure that the boogeyman does not catch him
00:44:52with a big shot to upset him or to make him lose his cool.
00:44:56So he's showing more points here than he ever showed before.
00:44:59And he's looking good because he's not walking straight in on the boogeyman.
00:45:02He's going to the left, he's going to the right, and he's challenging his attack.
00:45:05And three more effective combinations for Galada as Roy was making the point.
00:45:10So you see a man under control using his multiplicity of formidable skills, closing in on a possible
00:45:19wear-em-down knockout of Jesse Ferguson.
00:45:23And you wonder, where does Galada go from here, and who will take the risk of giving him a chance?
00:45:29You think he could show this kind of poise against a better quality fighter who puts some real heat on him?
00:45:37That's why we have fights, so we can see.
00:45:40It's a fascinating question.
00:45:41It always has been with this man.
00:45:46Still to come tonight, Ahmad Abdin came to this country at 15 years old.
00:45:51His family owns a tow truck service in Houston.
00:45:54And as the result of his purse tonight, their 40-truck fleet will become 42 sometime next week.
00:46:02And they hope they don't have to take him away behind one of those tow trucks tonight.
00:46:09Though the possibility certainly exists.
00:46:12Keep boxing.
00:46:13I did the same beat to him over there, too.
00:46:15Connect percentages impressive throughout the fight for Galada, and the eighth round was his best round.
00:46:20He's trying to make him mad.
00:46:21He's trying to even blow the belt.
00:46:22Snap that jab.
00:46:23Snap that jab, baby.
00:46:24Snap that jab in front of him.
00:46:25You can hit this guy with right hand.
00:46:27You can leave with right hand and come right back on left door.
00:46:29He's dropping everything over there.
00:46:30You got it?
00:46:33Mind your range.
00:46:33You understand the range?
00:46:36Come on, move.
00:46:41Oh, nine.
00:46:43Nine.
00:46:45Okay, time in.
00:46:48Sweat being wiped up in both corners, even as the action begins in center ring.
00:46:53Ferguson's face, a mask of pain now, as Galada has drawn blood and puffed up Jesse around both eyes.
00:47:02Well, Jesse's an old Marine.
00:47:04Spent four years in the Marines.
00:47:06Hasn't landed a lot here.
00:47:08But he is, uh, he's a warrior.
00:47:11And I'm pretty sure he'll do all that he can to make sure he's here at the end.
00:47:20Jesse Ferguson from the eastern North Carolina tobacco town of Nightdale against Andrew Galada of Warsaw.
00:47:38And Chicago.
00:47:42That's correct.
00:47:46Ferguson with a double left.
00:47:49And Galada shakes his head as if to say, you didn't hurt me.
00:47:52But it was one of Jesse's better moments in the whole fight.
00:47:55When a fighter says, you didn't hurt me, chances are he hurt you.
00:48:07Sometimes that's true.
00:48:08Sometimes that's not.
00:48:08You ever do that, Roy?
00:48:09You ever get your bell rung and immediately look at the other guy and shake your head like, no, no.
00:48:14No, I don't do that.
00:48:15You've never done it.
00:48:15If my bell gets rung, you can believe that you would know my bell got rung.
00:48:23Well, the knockdown against Duvall was a flash knockdown.
00:48:26Who's the last guy to really hurt you with him?
00:48:29I don't know.
00:48:30It's been so long.
00:48:31Uh-huh.
00:48:32I think I've been hurt more by punches that miss me than I have by the ones that connect.
00:48:38Well, or as director Mark Payton points out from the truck, some of those judges in Seoul hurt you pretty badly.
00:48:45Yeah, they hurt me real bad.
00:48:51Same Olympics where Andrew Galada won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division.
00:48:56Did you see him fight over there, Roy?
00:48:58No, I never got a chance to see Andrew fight.
00:49:00I probably wouldn't have known who he was anyway.
00:49:03Well, he weighed about 30 pounds, 35 pounds less at that time.
00:49:12Yes, and remember in the Olympics, the big class is super heavyweight.
00:49:16So if you're a heavyweight, you're somewhere just below that.
00:49:20I believe the heavyweight limit is 201.
00:49:22Yep.
00:49:22But Ray Mercer, I believe, won that gold medal.
00:49:25He won the heavyweight gold medal.
00:49:26And Riddick Cole won the...
00:49:28No, no, no.
00:49:28No, he's got a silver.
00:49:30I said one, the silver medal in the super heavyweight division.
00:49:33And it's who has won the gold medal.
00:49:35That's right.
00:49:39We're vamping here, folks.
00:49:40Because this fight seems to have an ordained finish.
00:49:47All right, that's what I want to see.
00:49:59That's what I want to see.
00:50:01What you were doing at the end of that round.
00:50:03Listen, it's the last round.
00:50:05I want you to start off, use the jab, walking around.
00:50:08And then I want you to work that left hand overtime.
00:50:10You understand, guys?
00:50:11It's the last round.
00:50:12If you say one thing, you're going to go out and do something else.
00:50:14That's right.
00:50:14Touching up.
00:50:15Give me a good sportsman, right?
00:50:16I don't want to take any points.
00:50:17Come on, Jesse.
00:50:18Let's go now.
00:50:19Last round, now.
00:50:19You're messing around.
00:50:23Last round.
00:50:24Give me a good sportsman, right?
00:50:26Okay?
00:50:26Don't go.
00:50:28You're beautiful.
00:50:29You're beautiful.
00:50:30Keep in track of the movie.
00:50:31Listen, he's going to be gastered when he's going over hand right.
00:50:34That's right.
00:50:35You know how to do that.
00:50:36You know, he's just walking around slapping, throwing the most bullshit.
00:50:40Let's go, man.
00:50:41Let's go.
00:50:43You need to knock him out.
00:50:43Watch your hand right.
00:50:44Your jab is working.
00:50:45Stop that jab.
00:50:5710th and final round upcoming for Jesse Ferguson and Andrew Gulotta.
00:51:02And regardless of how badly embarrassed Ferguson may be by CompuBox numbers
00:51:07and by the competitive picture of what's happened in the fight,
00:51:10by making it to the last of 10 rounds,
00:51:13having taken the fight on about 72 hours notice,
00:51:16I think you have to say he's done his job.
00:51:19Harold, how do you have it through nine?
00:51:21I tell you, I got Andrew Gulotta at least 11 points ahead.
00:51:25Nine to nothing, 90 to 79, Andrew Gulotta.
00:51:28Jim, there's two flawless performances out there tonight.
00:51:30One by Andrew Gulotta and the other by referee Joe Cortez
00:51:33who's doing a beautiful job kicking patrolling his fight.
00:51:36Gulotta really picking up the pace trying to finish him in the 10th,
00:51:39but he's so far ahead, it's amazing.
00:51:41I tell you, he just shows us everything.
00:51:42But I think also because he has fought in a more measured style,
00:51:47he has more left here at the end.
00:51:51Well, one of the things...
00:51:52And, of course, he hasn't taken much punishment,
00:51:54which always helps.
00:51:55Even when he was fighting at the pinnacle of the division against Bowe,
00:52:00his trainer, Roger Bloodworth, acknowledged
00:52:02he didn't really know how to breathe in the ring.
00:52:04They've still been trying to teach him from that day forward
00:52:06how to breathe and keep his energy level
00:52:08somewhat constant in the ring.
00:52:10And, obviously, he's doing much better in that regard.
00:52:13He's gotten a lot better in that regard.
00:52:15I'm highly impressed with the left and right movement tonight.
00:52:22He's just a big, cat-quick athlete
00:52:25for a 240-pound heavyweight.
00:52:27There aren't too many people as gifted as Andrew Gulotta.
00:52:36Somebody hands me a note from behind.
00:52:38I don't even know where the note comes from.
00:52:40But the observation of somebody here at ringside is,
00:52:43well, he's fought himself out of a chance at Tyson anytime soon.
00:52:49Likely to be a popular observation
00:52:51after this performance by Gulotta.
00:52:54What are they trying to say about Tyson?
00:52:57Well, it may take time.
00:52:59I guess they're saying it'll take time.
00:53:00Well, you know, Mike is trying to make money right now,
00:53:03and that's very understandable.
00:53:05I just don't think he would want to rush in
00:53:07and take an unnecessary chance
00:53:09until he's got his faculty back together.
00:53:11against a guy who outweighs him by 20 pounds.
00:53:16Gulotta trying one more time
00:53:18to put the hurt on Jesse, the boogeyman Ferguson,
00:53:21but the boogeyman has come in,
00:53:23taken his medicine,
00:53:25and he's going to be able to stand up for 10 rounds
00:53:27and say, oh, come on.
00:53:29He ain't nothing.
00:53:29He didn't knock me out.
00:53:30He didn't knock me out.
00:53:34Polish crowd chanting in Polish on the upper deck.
00:53:46They would have loved to have seen a knockout,
00:53:48but they've seen a totally competent,
00:53:50professional performance all the way,
00:53:52and Ferguson's going to finish this bout
00:53:55with blood flowing on both sides.
00:53:56Not easy coming back from the humiliations
00:54:15that Andrew Gulotta has visited upon himself,
00:54:23and I think we should give him credit
00:54:25for making the effort.
00:54:27Harold, would you like to show us
00:54:37what a shout-out looks like on the scorecard?
00:54:39Jim, I think there's no question.
00:54:40I've got at 100 to 88,
00:54:4210 rounds to nothing, Andrew Gulotta.
00:54:44You have to give Andrew Gulotta
00:54:46an extra point to round five
00:54:47because Joe took a point from him,
00:54:49and you have to give Andrew Gulotta
00:54:50an extra point in round eight
00:54:51because he won it so big.
00:54:52That's a 10-8 round without a knockdown.
00:54:54So it's Gulotta easy.
00:54:58You are a master of the obvious, Harold.
00:55:08It was supposed to be Gulotta
00:55:10against Jimmy Thunder.
00:55:12Thunder tore an Achilles tendon
00:55:14earlier this week,
00:55:16and when properly diagnosed
00:55:18with the Achilles tendon tear
00:55:20as of Tuesday,
00:55:21he declared himself out of the bout
00:55:22by Wednesday, late,
00:55:25Ferguson had been lined up
00:55:26as the opponent.
00:55:28Thursday, Gulotta arrived here
00:55:30and was told that he was fighting
00:55:31Jesse Ferguson instead of Jimmy Thunder.
00:55:33At that point,
00:55:33Gulotta locked himself in a room,
00:55:35and Larry Merchant tells us
00:55:37he learned that Gulotta wept
00:55:39about the unexpected circumstance
00:55:42he was facing.
00:55:43He was that freaked out
00:55:44at the notion of having to fight
00:55:45Jesse the Boogeyman Ferguson
00:55:47instead of Jimmy Thunder.
00:55:48So what does he do?
00:55:49He goes out and shuts him out.
00:55:50Let's go up to Michael Buffer
00:55:52with the official particulars.
00:55:55Ladies and gentlemen,
00:55:56from Bally's Park Place,
00:55:57Atlantic City,
00:55:58we go to the Budweiser scorecards.
00:56:01Hilton Whitaker and John Pottery
00:56:02both scored about 100 to 89.
00:56:06Gene Williams has it 99 to 90.
00:56:08For the winner by unanimous decision,
00:56:11Andrew...
00:56:12Go!
00:56:14Go!
00:56:14Go!
00:56:14Go!
00:56:14Go!
00:56:15Go!
00:56:15Go!
00:56:16Go!
00:56:16Go!
00:56:17Go!
00:56:17Go!
00:56:17Go!
00:56:18Go!
00:56:19Go!
00:56:20Go!
00:56:20Go!
00:56:27Go!
00:56:27Go!
00:56:29Go!
00:56:30Have a wonderful applause
00:56:30for the perfect game effort
00:56:32from Jesse Ferguson of Philadelphia.
00:56:34sein.
00:56:39Final punchRot numbers.
00:56:41As we mentioned,
00:56:42the Compu 정도로
00:56:43wipeout.
00:56:44Gulotta more than doubling
00:56:45ferguson's punch output,
00:56:47nearly quadrupling
00:56:48his Kinect output
00:56:50and virtually doubling
00:56:52Ferguson and Kinect percentage
00:56:54jabs completely dominated by Galata
00:56:56he's got one of the better jabs
00:56:58in the heavyweight division
00:57:00so off of that
00:57:03do you put Andrew Galata back in the
00:57:05Pantheon of fighters who will be looking for a chance
00:57:07to fight the winner of Holyfield
00:57:09Lewis, certainly in terms
00:57:11of the quality of his performances
00:57:13he might deserve that kind of
00:57:15consideration, whether he's yet taken that seriously
00:57:17by promoters and by
00:57:19the boxing public, that remains
00:57:21to be seen, still to come tonight
00:57:23a look at another rising
00:57:25heavyweight, this one already
00:57:27unanimously anointed as the number
00:57:29three man in the division behind Holyfield
00:57:31and Lewis, that'll be Michael Grant
00:57:33and he's fighting against a former sparring
00:57:35partner named Ahmad Abdin
00:57:37as he comes back from a long
00:57:39layoff, very quickly
00:57:41Roy Jones, I mentioned the question
00:57:43of whether Galata filters into the
00:57:45mix now of possible opponents for
00:57:47the Holyfield Lewis winner, you put him there?
00:57:49Oh yes, most definitely
00:57:50he has quick hands, he has that huge frame
00:57:53for a heavyweight that we like to see
00:57:55he has pretty good punching power
00:57:57and he throws a lot of punches
00:57:58he showed a lot of movement tonight
00:58:00he showed a lot of good things that
00:58:01makes for a good fight with
00:58:03any of the top ten heavyweights right now
00:58:05Alright, live pay-per-view
00:58:07two weeks from tonight
00:58:08in Las Vegas, Oscar De La Hoya
00:58:09on the left of the screen
00:58:11Ike Quarte on the right of the screen
00:58:12Right now, let's look ahead to some upcoming sports programs on HBO
00:58:16next month
00:58:18tune in to HBO for a huge
00:58:19welterweight title fight
00:58:20one week after De La Hoya
00:58:22and Quarte decide one title
00:58:24challenger Fernell Whitaker
00:58:25takes on champion
00:58:26Felix Trinidad for another
00:58:27in Trinidad, you'll see an undefeated
00:58:2926-year-old knockout artist
00:58:31in comebacking Fernell Whitaker
00:58:33you could see one last great stand
00:58:35or the end of an era
00:58:37on February 27, tune in for the
00:58:39half-hour countdown to Holyfield Lewis
00:58:41we'll look at the careers of both champions
00:58:43and analyze their upcoming pay-per-view fight
00:58:46afterward, live boxing
00:58:48Reggie Johnson against Will Taylor
00:58:50and Cesar Bazan versus Stevie Johnston
00:58:53in March, watch for David Reed
00:58:55against 154-pound champion Laurent Buduani
00:58:58you may remember that Reed was the only American
00:59:00to win a gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games
00:59:03now Reed attempts to win his first world title
00:59:06in just his 12th professional fight
00:59:09and we bring you back live
00:59:12and get ready now to talk to the two men
00:59:14who will be meeting each other
00:59:15in what will be the biggest fight
00:59:17in the welterweight division
00:59:18perhaps in 18 years
00:59:20since Leonard Hearns won back in 1981
00:59:23Oscar De La Hoya
00:59:25joining us live from his training camp
00:59:27in Big Bear, California
00:59:28Ike Quarte in Pensacola, Florida
00:59:30Oscar, I'm going to start with you
00:59:32because I don't know if you saw
00:59:34my live interview with Ike Quarte
00:59:36a couple of weeks ago in Pensacola, Florida
00:59:39as we were getting ready to watch Roy Jones fight
00:59:41but I couldn't believe the degree
00:59:43to which he dissed you, Oscar
00:59:45this guy, in his public pronouncements
00:59:47before this fight
00:59:48shows you very little respect
00:59:50I wonder if you're startled
00:59:51at the kinds of things he's said about you
00:59:53I actually did not have the opportunity
00:59:56to witness or listen to what he said
00:59:59but I'm pretty sure he's kind of
01:00:01trash-talking me
01:00:03or trying to say negative things about me
01:00:05but hey, it's okay
01:00:07it's all talk
01:00:07that's all it is
01:00:09well Oscar, it's an unusual moment in your career
01:00:11because in the past I think you've been able to get into that envelope
01:00:15where the next big fight is all-consuming
01:00:18but your life is more complicated outside the ring right now
01:00:21than has ever been the case before
01:00:23can you still get into that frame of mind where
01:00:26all you see and think about is Ike Quarte?
01:00:28Jim Blampley, this is the very first time
01:00:31that I have felt focused, determined, and ready to win a fight
01:00:36the first time I felt it a while back was when I fought Chavez the first time
01:00:40I was dedicated, I was motivated, I was focused
01:00:43Ike Quarte brought that out in me
01:00:46and so this time around you will see the real Oscar de la Hoya
01:00:49well, Ike Quarte, there you have it
01:00:52the man says you're going to see the real Oscar de la Hoya
01:00:54I referred to the things you've said about him in the past
01:00:57you have publicly said
01:00:59that this is going to be an easy fight for you
01:01:01isn't that a very dangerous way
01:01:03of getting ready to fight a guy who's unbeaten
01:01:06has fought a lot of very good fighters
01:01:08has a very strong background coming into the ring
01:01:11well, I think this fight is a big fight, you know
01:01:17I'm a person to win this fight
01:01:20you know, I respect Oscar a lot, you know, as a champion
01:01:23well, I think this fight is not a big
01:01:24you know, a tough fight for me, like I said
01:01:26it's a big fight, but Oscar is big
01:01:28I always say Oscar is big in America
01:01:31Ike, how big? Everybody talks about how this is the biggest challenge yet
01:01:35in Oscar's career
01:01:37I don't know that anybody's asked you the same question
01:01:39is this the toughest fight so far
01:01:42in your career?
01:01:43well, I don't think this fight is the toughest fight for me
01:01:47like I always say everyday, Oscar is not tough
01:01:49Oscar is known in the American market
01:01:52as a champion, golden boy
01:01:55that's what everyone knows
01:01:56but I think competitive in February
01:01:58there will be a different thing
01:02:00Oscar, does that make your blood flow to hear him say that?
01:02:02no, it actually doesn't, Jim
01:02:05hey, this is boxing, people want to hear
01:02:07each other trash talking to each other
01:02:09but, you know it's not me
01:02:11I'm going to show my talent up in the ring
01:02:13I'm going to show what I have, what I've been training for
01:02:15on February 13th
01:02:17Ike, I respect the guy, he's a very well determined fighter
01:02:21who will go up there and do his job
01:02:23I mean, that's the reason why Ike is going to bring the best out of me
01:02:27a very professional performance by both of you tonight
01:02:30Ike, Oscar, I can't wait to see the two of you two weeks from now
01:02:33in Las Vegas, thanks very much again for your time
01:02:35thank you very much
01:02:36thank you
01:02:37alright, February 13th, live on pay-per-view
01:02:40from the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada
01:02:43be sure to take advantage of your chance
01:02:45to see the biggest welterweight fight in 18 years
01:02:49since Leonard Hearns won De La Hoya vs. Cuartet
01:02:53and now we bring it back
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