Why wasnt witter a draw?

This really

 

a bradford lad born & bred yet only ever fought once in bradford, add that with the fact he was boring & frustrating to watch & no charisma.
due to the above he never got the locals, casuals or hardcore fans onboard

 

Well said ..

 

Witter would have been a huge draw if he only fought slow sluggers with zero defense.

 

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:rofl

 

He was with him for a fair number of years I know he boxed on the undercard of Thompson vs. Eubank and beat Bergman who was quite highly rated at the time and he was on the undercard of Hatton vs Rios which was sometime in 2003, I think it was 2004 when he changed promoters.

Why wasn't he a draw? Not all that exciting and seemed to have a chip-on-shoulder attitude which a lot of people didn't like.

Junior ****ed himself over IMO, for many years his legacy was the Judah bout and then just when people started paying real attention when he flattened Harris he goes and loses to the unknown mandatory Tim Bradley who in fairness has proven to go on to become a top class fighter but at the time he was completely unknown.

 

People judging witter like he is now are really doing him an injustice. This was a guy who turned pro with no fanfair just worked hard and took difficult fights getting solid results.

Drew with the decent Cam Raeside on his debut... Stopped the solid Andreas Panayi in his fifth fight. Beat the top rated Jan Bergman who had only lost to Kostya Tszyu at the time in his tenth fight. Beat once beaten British champion Mark Winters in fight 11. Brutally knocked out top domestic stalwart Malcolm Melvin in two rounds in one of the most devasting domestic performances of 1999.

And where others would have bided their time and made excuses he took on Zab Judah at a weeks notice and went the distance. At the time Judah may well have been the hottest prospect in the sport having blasted his way through the lower rungs of world class light welterweights.

At a largely unmanfactured 15-1-2 went on a 15 fight KO run - most of which were absolutely brutal. Guys like Scott Conway, Oscar Hall, Alan Boswoth, Gisueppi Lauri, Latekwei Hammond were pretty solid fighters at least at domestic level- who had given other top class fighters good runs.

Lovemore Ndou was dropped and outpointed and the Kotelnik result looks so much more impressive in hindsight. Even the Colin Lynes win was when Lynes was at the top of his game. Witter had actually probably already peaked physically when beating the dangerous yanks Demarcus Corley and Vivian Harris. The loss to Bradley doesn't look so bad these days - it was a good close fight.

Subsequent losses to Alexander and Puiu can be put down to fathertime and his reduced ability to take a shot or mount any sort of consistant workrate. But even at the very tail end of his career he was talented and canny enough to beat Mcintyre, Nathan Graham and Lynes again.

I also thought he was giving Gavin a decent run for 5 rounds before gassing.

Don't judge a fighter by the end of their careers -at his best Witter was a talented fighter who probably sat in the top five fighters in the world at his weight. Thats a long way from his debut at the Green Bank Leisure centre- where he occupied the journeyman corner against the 8-1 Cam Raeside.

 

I know exactly why people don't like him.

It's because he does that fake smile then stops smiling in a millisecond.

The kind of sarcastic thing you do be behind a person's back. The kind of grin a 12-year old does who is going through puberty.

Insincere.