Heavyweight FOTW #10: Terrible Tim Trio (Snipes/Mercer/Williams)

Always felt Tim did well against the taller fighters....

 

Any examples on both sides that you would care to give? I have not heard or thought that before...but that does not mean you are not right. I am just curious what makes you draw that conclusion

 

Pullen, Eklund, Gonzalez, Art Tucker, Broad... although these guys were no world beaters... I remember him losing to Bigfoot and just about crying as I knew Tim's career was not going to pan out as I had hoped.... oh I think Al Cole was another taller fighter along with the Truth

 

Tim Witherspoon vs Renaldo Smipes
Consensus of 3 cards
Majority Draw

RBR
1 Even 1-0-2 (1 for Spoon)
2 Witherspoon 2-1-0
3 Witherspoon 3-0-0
4 Witherspoon 3-0-0
5 Witherspoon 3-0-0
6 Snipes 3-0-0
7 Snipes 3-0-0
8 Witherspoon 2-0-1
9 Snipes 3-0-0
10 Snipes 3-0-0

96-95 Spoon by consensus

Witherspoon card
@Big Ukrainian 96-95

Draw cards
@Pat M 96-96
@PhillyPhan69 95-95

 

Tim Witherspoon vs Mike Williams
Not sure if it is a consensus with only 2 judges but that is what we have to work with lol. A shame because this is a fairly decent fight

We agreed on
Spoon 1-7-8-9-10
Williams 3-5-6

We split
2/4 with you scoring 2 for Spoon and 4 for Williams me scoring 2 for Williams and 4 for Spoon leading to our verdicts of 96-94 Spoon on both cards!

Witherspoon Cards
@Pat M 96-94
@PhillyPhan69 96-94

 

Ray Mercer vs Tim Witherspoon
Consensus draw if 2 people make a consensus

We agreed on 5 rounds
Witherspoon 1-2-5
Mercer 4-7

We saw 3-6-8-9-10 different
Pat split 2-2-1
And me 3-1-1 for Mercer

Fun fight to watch

Witherspoon card
@Pat M 96-95

Mercer Card
@PhillyPhan69 96-95

 

Unfortunately, I've watched it recently and didn't write my card. I had it 97-95, or 5-3-2 in rounds for Spoon.

 

I remember seeing a quote from Witherspoon somewhere saying that he had more issues with Williams' jab than he did Holmes'. He faced quite a few great jabbers at HW, so it's cool to see what he has to say about everything. I think he said that Pinklon's jab was harder than Larry's, but not as snappy- So I guess Thomas < Holmes < Williams in his own experience (just talking about jabs here).

I also remember Carl buckling Witherspoon's knees either once or twice during the bout... Haven't watched it in a while, but I do think that Tim was a lot easier to nail hard than people might think. Snipes and Williams hurt him with a left hook and a left uppercut respectively, with both coming at the end of combinations. I think that it just took a level of surprise to make him really feel those hard punches.