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00 wsdw basils Pole trains for Tyson at his worst AL CERTO, the trainertailor who is trying to fashion Andrew Golota into a menacing heavyweight for an Oct. 20 showdown with Mike Tyson, has been advising Golota's sparring partners to dig into their bag of dirty tricks during ring sessions with the fighter who is known as "The Foul Pole." Step on his toes, Certo whispers. Give him the forearm under the chin, Certo suggests. Go ahead, throw a few below the border, Certo nods. Michael Tucker wasn't buying it.

"I was sore for two days the last time I tried that," Tucker said yesterday in Jersey City. "I read the book. He wrote it." If Tyson is looking for a war, Golota is it A 3 ftmi lieve he will win," Lane said. "He has the desire to win. He's strong and this is the best time to fight Mike Tyson.

He's not the same monster that people saw before. You rough him up, push him around, you got him." Lane doesn't believe Tyson is nuts. "It's all coming from a fear he has inside," Lane said. "The invincible Mike Tyson is gone. He has to do something to build that image back up.

So he acts crazy. I don't doubt the fact that he takes the medication. But that plays into it. People are afraid of the mentally ill, because they don't know how they'll react and they think they're stronger than normal." Still, Golota said he wouldn't leave his children alone in a room with Tyson. "I wouldn't leave my wife alone with him, either," Golota said.

Round 'n round: Garing Lane has been mentioned as an opponent for David Izon on the Tyson-Golota undercard. Lane is concerned that he might get squeezed out of the payday because of politics. It would be a shame if he is. James (The Harlem Hammer) Butler (16-1, 11 KOs), IBF No. 2 ranked super middleweight contender, meets Jose Spearman (12-1-2, 4 KOs) in Kansas City on Friday night on ESPN2.

Butler wants to fight Roy Jones Jr. once he settles at 168 pounds. Jones has hired Endeavor Talent Agency, a showbiz company, to help his lawyer, Fred Levin, negotiate his new television deal with HBO or Showtime. They met with HBO Sports prez Ross Greenburg yesterday. Maybe Jones wants a starring role on "Oz" or "Resurrection Blvd." Olympic heavyweights Michael Bennett and Calvin Brock look like they've found their pro calling a spot on Cedric Kushner's Heavyweight Explosion.

The WBA has stripped James Page of his welterweight title. He ducked out on a mandatory vs. Six Heads Lewis on Aug. 12 and then waited for the ax to fall. Lewis now awaits an opponent for the vacant title.

I need a scorecard to figure out the players in the Oscar De La Hoya saga. But whose phone call does Kushner take when someone calls about the Sugar Shane Mosley-De La Hoya rematch? BOXING TIM SMITH I I Andrew Golota, who knows a bit about underhanded tactics, says he will give as good as he gets if Mike Tyson gets nasty. training for it. In seven rounds yesterday, with Tyson lookalikes boring in on him, Golota gave better than he got. If Tyson plays it straight, Golota said he will too.

If not "Whatever he starts, I'll finish," Golota said. Certo likes the sound of that. "This guy ain't gonna take no stuff," Certo said. "For three rounds it will be a hell of a fight. We'll see what kind of guts Tyson has after that." The promoters and Showtime Entertainment Television, the pay-per-view carrier, are billing this as "Anything Goes." Of course anything won't go if the referee takes control.

But there is a sense of the unknown swirling around this fight. No one knows what's going on inside either man's head and the one who snaps first will probably lose. Golota said he doesn't believe Tyson is crazy, an image that Iron Bite fueled by talking about eating Lennox Lewis' non-existent children and heightened with his profane antics at an L.A. press conference two weeks ago. "Everybody in boxing is crazy," Golota said.

"I don't know if he is. He sounds like he didn't get enough education." Golota laughed about Tyson's press conference doings. He was upset about being made to wait for two hours, but he left before Tyson arrived and didn't sweat it. If Tyson was trying to get inside his head, it didn't work. Golota has been foul-prone in the past.

He bit Samson Po'uha on the shoulder during a bout and was disqualified in two fights he was winning against Riddick Bowe for low blows. He said that's in his past. "I'm smarter than before," Golota said. "I don't have much time left. I'm not that young anymore." Garing Lane, one of Golota's sparring partners, has worked with Tyson and Lewis in the past.

He likes Golota in the fight. "At first I had my doubts, but now I be- Johnnies right at home at Garden IF YOU LIKE BASEBALL, YOU'LL LOVE US! WE'RE VIC ZIEGEL A HIT, EVERY .7 Bill MADDEN DAY! New Yortt's Most Valuable Paper When that occurs, Fisher said, the number of games St. John's is required to play at the Garden will decrease. The Red Storm is expected to continue playing at the Garden, though, even after the renovation. St.

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