If Tim was on, I would pick Tim By Knockout. But the guy was so up and down. This is a fight that would depend on the condition of Spoon.. But lets say Tim at his best and I will take Tim. Because at his best he had a great chin and good power, and could also box a bit. I will say Spoon TKO 11, kind of like his title defense against Bruno. But if bad Tim showed up (like in the rematch with Bonecrusher) he could go early..
Rutgers wrote: ... When?? Not counting the 2nd Bonecruher Smith fight, in which he could have cared less, when did his chin let him down? The man should own a win over Larry Holmes when Holmes was still pretty good.. Tell me where his chin let him down in his prime.. I will give you being out of shape or lazy but I don't see the chin thing.
He had a very good defense and a rather solid chin. What examples during his prime can you think of where his chin or defense let him down? P.S. Just so you know, the Smith fight was a fix, so boxrec isn't much help there.
Dude have you seen that fight? He could have cared less plus he beat Bonecrushers ass a year before that easily. The dude had a solid chin.
The fight was a fix. King blackmailed Spoon into throwing the fight. I posted a whole thread on it in the classic forum about 6 months ago.
Do you think he did it to keep Spoon away from Mike?? I always thought that would have been an interesting fight..
You do if you're told to go down. thats how. Don King and Tim Witherspoon were at ods with each other for years. They had numerous desputes over things like purse percentages, opponent selection, fight conditions etc. Witherspoon got busted once in a post fight urine test after the Tubbs bout. King knew he couldn't sell Spoon to the public anymore. He was also raping Tim left and right on paydays. In 1990, I saw Tim in a comeback fight with a journeyman named Jeff Sims. Sean O'Grady was commentating the fight, and said that in a pre-fight interview, Witherspoon specifically said that he was blackmailed into throwing the bout. King told him that if he didn't, he'd test positive for drugs. As it turned out, he tested positive anyway. In the following years of 1987-88, Witherspoon was winning fights regularly while his ratings continued to drop. In March of 1988, Tony Tubbs who Witherspoon beat was a #1 contender who hadn't done **** since he beat Greg Page in 1985, while Spoon was not even a top 10 contender. King had completely black balled Spoon from the heavyweight picture. The Smith fight was one of the worst dives in heavyweight history.
Yes, but that is probably only one of a few reasons. King also knew he couldn't sell Spoon to the public. There was far greater money to be made on Mike Tyson, and he didn't want to risk damaging his prize investment.
Today's Witherspoon would probably get TKOed inside of 5. Ol' Skool Tim would put a whoopin on DubKlit.
Vlad would have stopped Witherspoon. I have to agree, Don King helped destroyed Witherspoon though, but he also destroyed Tyson, not to mention so many others.
