NEW YORK -- Andrew Golota, hurting and humiliated, but now out of the hospital, was worried about what his 9-year-old daughter Alexandra would think about his fight against Mike Tyson.

	Andrew Golota refused to allow trainer Al Certo to put in his mouthpiece before the third round Friday night.

"What will Ola (Alexandra's pet name) think? I told her I would win the fight," Mariola Golota said her husband wondered.

Golota quit after the second round Friday night and left the ring in Palace of Auburn Hills near Detroit to a chorus of boos, a shower of soda and beer and severe criticism from the media.

"Everybody just assumed, well, here we have a winner and a quitter," said Golota's wife, a lawyer whose office in northwest Chicago was pelted with eggs and had garbage dumped in front of it. "There was more involved."

Golota's trainer, feeling guilty for berating the heavyweight for quitting after the second round, apologized Monday upon learning of the severity of the injuries suffered by his fighter.

"Following the Andrew Golota-Mike Tyson bout on Friday, Oct. 20, I made several comments criticizing my fighter, Andrew Golota, for his decision not to answer the bell for round three," trainer Al Certo said in a statement issued through promoter Main Events.

"At the time of the stoppage I was unaware of how injured my fighter was. It has now come to my attention that Andrew suffered several injuries.

"Obviously, a fighter's health takes priority over continuing a boxing match," Certo said.

Golota was admitted to Chicago's Resurrection Hospital Saturday afternoon with a concussion, a fractured left cheekbone and a herniated disk in his neck. Peggy Williams, a hospital spokeswoman, said Golota was discharged from the hospital in good condition Sunday night.

"Andrew wanted to win the fight," his wife said. "He wanted to show everybody he could fight clean and he could win.

"He got hurt, he got injured and it's probably the smartest thing he did," she said of his refusal to continue.

Dr. Wesley Yapor, a neurosurgeon treating Golota, described the fighter's injuries Sunday on a conference call with Mrs. Golota.

He said the 32-year-old Golota sustained a herniated disk between the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae, and that he had been fitted with a cervical collar.

"If the symptoms persist, he might need surgery," Yapor said.

After an MRI, it was thought that there was a little bleeding in the brain, but that doesn't appear to the case, according to Yapor.

"It's not uncommon for people who sustain serious head injuries to have a cervical injury," said Yapor, explaining that all head injuries are considered serious.

Numbness in Golota's left arm led to an MRI that disclosed the herniated disk. An EEG was normal.

Asked if Golota could fight again, Yapor said, "That's a difficult question to answer. My goal is to get him to where he would have no restrictions."

"There's no question he sustained a concussion from head blows," Yapor said.

Golota was knocked down by a right to the head late in the first round. He also complained of several head butts by Tyson, one of which apparently opened a cut over his left eye.

"If he had sustained another serious blow to the head, he could have become paralyzed," Yapor said. "There's no way I would have allowed him to enter the ring for the second round."

Golota, however, did not complain to a ringside physician about being in distress.

"There's no way I'm blaming the physician who was there," Yapor said.

Golota told trainer Al Certo after the first round he wanted to quit, but Certo told him he could win the fight. After the second round, Mrs. Golota said, "He was talking to him (Certo) in Polish."

But Golota told referee Frank Garza more than once in English, "I quit."

After the fight, Golota, who had a seizure and was hospitalized after being knocked out in one round by heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, Oct. 4, 1997, became disoriented and nauseous.

Golota, however, had held is own with Tyson in the second round. Yapor said effects of a concussion are not always immediately apparent, but had Golota continued to fight, "There's no doubt the first episode of vomiting would have occurred in the ring."

Golota appeared coherent in a couple of brief television interviews immediately after the fight, but his wife said when she got to the dressing room, "He was pretty incoherent. He was stuttering. Then after about 15 minutes Showtime came in and got a few sentences out of him."

Golota was taken to hospital near the arena to have the cut stitched. Yapor said he refused to be admitted there and he and his wife returned to Chicago.

"A friend drove us," she said. "We still have friends."

Golota suffered from headaches and nauseous and "he was very lethargic. I tried to keep him awake," she said.

When she told him he needed "to go to the hospital, he replied 'No, No, I'm all right." She finally got him to the Resurrection emergency room about 3 p.m. CT Saturday, and he was admitted.