Terrible Tim Witherspoon sparring at age 64

[ShoulderRoll]

Notice the layers of defense, sometimes he parries and sometimes he moves his head to slips punches. Then there is the switching between the “Philly Shell” and the old school cross arm guard.

No heavyweight today looks like this. This is what some of us are talking about when we say that the old timers had skills that the moderns simply do not. (Tim was taught by an old style Philadelphia trainer.)

[CubanGuyNYC]

I’m glad to see it’s some very light sparring. A man that age really shouldn’t be taking shots to the head, especially after he made a career of it.

[ShoulderRoll]

I’m glad to see it’s some very light sparring. A man that age really shouldn’t be taking shots to the head, especially after he made a career of it.

Just helping out one of the fighters he works with.