By Eric Raskin, The Ring
When Micky Ward compares his late friend and rival Arturo Gatti to Jason Voorhees, as he does almost every time anyone interviews him, he means it as a compliment. No matter what Ward hit him with, Gatti just wouldn’t stay down. All that “Thunder” was missing was the goalie’s mask.
Another pugilistic “A.G.” from the same era, Andrew Golota, could also conjure up images of Jason Voorhees, but in his case, there’s nothing flattering about the comparison. Golota is more like the Friday The 13th movies themselves than the lead antagonist. We enjoyed his first couple of incarnations, but before long we couldn’t believe they were still cranking out these sequels and we especially couldn’t believe the public still supported them. With the movies, the question was, “How many hundreds of horny teenagers do they have to butcher before moviegoers lose interest?” With Golota, the question was, “How many times does he have to come unglued in the ring before promoters stop trying to bring him back?” READ MORE
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