Had a chat with Tim Witherspoon yesterday
Chatted to him on facebook about his new book "Terrible Times"
One of the nicest guys i ever met in boxing and he even remembered me and my mate having a beer with him in London after a fight night where he was in the corner for a few fighters.
Really looking forward to reading the book as it's a great story, there's obviously gonna be a huge section of his long running feud with Don King where he was shafted left right and centre for money to the point where he threw the Bonecrusher Smith 2 fight in round one just to get rid of King and his son and out of the contract they had him on.
He ended up suing King for those that didn't know and won an out of court settlement of $1 Million.
Witherspoon (Champion) should have got that amount alone for facing Bruno at Wembley Stadium in 1986 but took home only $100,000 and Bruno (challenger) walked away with nearly $2 Million.
That was just one of many times King Fucked him over through the years but he remains a happy man and there's not one ounce of bitterness in him.
Great In Depth Interview all about it
“Terrible” Times: A Life of Tim Witherspoon - Boxing.com
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just watched smith witherspoon 2 again and it didnt look like he threw the fight
looked legitimate to me
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I'd check out his book. Real underrated HW.
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Chatted to him on facebook about his new book "Terrible Times"
One of the nicest guys i ever met in boxing and he even remembered me and my mate having a beer with him in London after a fight night where he was in the corner for a few fighters.
Really looking forward to reading the book as it's a great story, there's obviously gonna be a huge section of his long running feud with Don King where he was shafted left right and centre for money to the point where he threw the Bonecrusher Smith 2 fight in round one just to get rid of King and his son and out of the contract they had him on.
He ended up suing King for those that didn't know and won an out of court settlement of $1 Million.
Witherspoon (Champion) should have got that amount alone for facing Bruno at Wembley Stadium in 1986 but took home only $100,000 and Bruno (challenger) walked away with nearly $2 Million.
That was just one of many times King Fucked him over through the years but he remains a happy man and there's not one ounce of bitterness in him.
Great In Depth Interview all about it
“Terrible” Times: A Life of Tim Witherspoon - Boxing.com
He mounted a serious comeback in the 90's... but never got his just due BECAUSE of King and boxing politics.
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just watched smith witherspoon 2 again and it didnt look like he threw the fight
looked legitimate to me
He openly admits it ;)
have you watched it recently, if its staged its very good acting
was smith in on it?
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just watched smith witherspoon 2 again and it didnt look like he threw the fight
looked legitimate to me
He openly admits it ;)
and would he not get a slap in the wrists
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Funker should have got an Oscar if he threw the fight. Whilst he's getting smashed from pillar to post he's winging bombs back at Bonecrusher, luckily one didn't connect (;D)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plFl_VqLVvc
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Tim sounds like a intelligent and genuinely nice guy when I have heard him during interviews. He was robbed by Don King but he does not sound bitter about it. He also implies he threw away the fight against Bonecrusher because of King.
He was one of the decent fighters that never fought a prime Tyson.
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I'm not calling Tim a fibber (liar) but a few factors that may measure that a false statement
Tim looked in shape and if he had won he would have secured a multi million $ fight with Mike Tyson
I also would have given Tim a better chance against Tyson than Bone Crusher
Job Biscuit (would of been a good fight)!!!
eh eh!!
I totally agree with this , no way would he have thrown the fight and not got his chance against Tyson.
I always believed Witherspoon would have given Tyson a better fight than people like Smith , Tubbs , Thomas , Briggs ETC.
Fighters are usually in denial when they talk about their careers .
