Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: Crawford-Ennis, Canelo-Benavidez, Jared Anderson, Richardson Hitchins, Zurdo At Heavyweight, Tim Witherspoon, And Boots Signing With Matchroom

[ShoulderRoll]

Luis Nery really hasn’t looked the same since he tested positive for PEDs. It’s not like Canelo who looked better than ever while doing VADA testing.

Tim Witherspoon is very knowledgeable and skillful. I keep hoping a young heavyweight prospect hires him as a trainer.

Nice of Richardson Hitchins’ mom to write into the Mailbag this week to praise him after he really deserved to lose.

[Oldskoolg]

That so called “champions for a day” era came
out of a result of the three belt era taken hold over the old one champion era. All of those guys were solid and would beat the guys today…Witherspoon, Weaver, Holmes, Spinks, Dokes, even guys like Pinklon Thomas, Tony Tubbs, John Tate and the layer ones like Tucker, Bruno, etc etc would have beaten most of not all of the guys around now. Just tougher more athletic guys with better ring generalship

[PunchyPotorff]

Boxing in the 80s IMO was one of the best eras for the sport. Saw the Witherspoon vs Tubbs fight
in Atlanta in '86... and although I wanted Tubbs to win... Tim did put on a strong performance. And
I agree that, as with so many fighters... don king greatly stifled Witherspoon's career.

[The D3vil]

I agree with Breadman when he states that Tim Witherspoon beat Holmes. I’ll add another one to that. A young Maurice Harris ( probably one of the most talented heavyweights ever) did too. Harris was the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world in the gym.

Don’t believe me, ask Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr, Lennox Lewis, Shannon Briggs, Al Cole, Tim Witherspoon, W. Klitschko, Ray Mercer, and Hasim Rahman to name a few. These fighters sparred Harris and know exactly what I’m talking about. A tremendous underachiever who was claimed by the streets. Scary talented!!! Talent like you never see in a heavyweight. At least I never saw a heavyweight with his talent and athleticism including the Greatest himself Ali, (you heard right). Mo Harris a living gym legend folks with the heart of a pea. But on any given day, if his head was right, and he wasn’t on something, he was unstoppable and all the fighters I named above will attest to that 100%.

Yo, is there any footage of this dude or anywhere I can learn more about this cat.

I've never heard that name before, but you got me open, G.

[Roadblock]

You have to read between the lines with this writer. He's a pbc apologist to the core. Boots jumped ship ? He wasn't signed to pbc,just affiliated as Bread later writes.And the thing about Benavidez being drunk. Isn't this the middle of training camp ? And this writer doesn't care? People try to make an equivalence between Canelo post fight celebration and Benavidez in the midst of training. Foh

Kicking your heels up for one night is not going to upset anything, it's only when it's a habit that there is an issue.