Editing Andrew Golota (section)

==Amateur career==
The [[Warsaw]]-born, Golota had 111 wins and 10 losses in an [[amateur boxing|amateur]] career that culminated in his winning a bronze medal at the [[1988 Summer Olympics]]. Golota won other international amateur tournaments as well.

In 1990, he got into a fight with a [[machinist]] "about half a foot and 50 pounds smaller" in a bar in Poland. Facing charges of assault and battery, he fled rather than risk five years in prison. <!-- returned for ''Dancing with the Stars'' as shown below --><ref>[https://www.si.com/vault/1996/08/19/216215/down-and-dirty-andrew-golota-has-been-accused-of-a-lot-more-than-the-low-blows-that-incited-a-madison-square-garden-riot"Down and Dirty"], sportsillustrated.cnn.com; retrieved 8 March 2015.</ref> Later that year, he married an American citizen of Polish descent and settled in [[Chicago]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://articles.philly.com/1997-09-21/sports/25550733_1_andrew-golota-bowe-last-year-england-s-lennox-lewis |title=The Philadelphia Inquirer |access-date=2016-04-27 |archive-date=2016-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512174642/http://articles.philly.com/1997-09-21/sports/25550733_1_andrew-golota-bowe-last-year-england-s-lennox-lewis |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Gołota's Olympic results were as follows:
*1st round [[Bye (sports)|bye]]
*Defeated [[Svilen Rusinov]] (Bulgaria) 5-0
*Defeated [[Harold Obunga]] (Kenya) 5-0
*Lost to [[Baik Hyun-Man]] (South Korea) RSC 2