BoxingScene.com: It looked like you were originally going to jump in to stop the Seth Mitchell/Chazz Witherspoon fight, then like you were issuing a technical knockdown, and then you decided to stop the fight. What was the actual sequence of events a...
For one round, it didn’t look like Seth Mitchell’s post-fight press conference would be a celebratory one. But he came back from a Chazz Witherspoon onslaught, battling back to score a third-round technical knockout and bring his record to 25-0-1 wit...
The bandwagon nearly came crashing to an abrupt halt for the man anointed as the next great American heavyweight. Seth Mitchell was reeling around the ring, his legs failing him, trying to hold on as Chazz Witherspoon kept hitting him with hard sh...
CompuBox's takes a historical look at HBO's televised co-feature. Heavyweight contender Seth Mitchell landed twice as many punches per round and hits harder. Chazz Witherspoon's opponents landed 49% of their power punches. Witherspoon will have to la...
Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City - Light heavyweight rivals Bernard Hopkins (52-5-2, 32KOs) and Chad Dawson (30-1, 17KOs) finally faced off - at their official weigh-in. Hopkins had elected not to participate in a final press conference with Dawson, and...
Chazz Witherspoon’s window of opportunity is almost closed. The college-educated heavyweight knows if he doesn’t defeat Seth Mitchell on Saturday night in Atlantic City that he’ll have wasted a perfect chance to completely change the course of his...
The weights are in for Saturday's big light heavyweight rematch at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. WBC champion Bernard Hopkins weighed in at 173.5-pounds, while challenger and former beltholder Chad Dawson was 174.5. Both boxers appeared to be...
Seth Mitchell’s primary sparring partners ahead of his April 28 fight on HBO against Chazz Witherspoon are a pair of heavyweights: Donnell Holmes and Joe Rabotte. This is Holmes’ first time in camp with Mitchell, Rabotte’s second. Both spoke to Bo...
Undefeated Heavyweight Rising Star Seth Mitchell hits the heavy bag on April 18, 2012 in Clinton, Maryland during a media workout in preparation for his April 28, 2012 fight against Chazz Witherspoon at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey in...
Chazz Witherspoon won’t approach Seth Mitchell the way Witherspoon has seen some of Mitchell’s previous opponents come at him. The 30-year-old Witherspoon intends to bring the fight to the hard-hitting Mitchell in their 12-round HBO co-feature Apr...
Chazz Witherspoon is living proof that it’s never too late to teach an old dog new tricks. There were several firsts surrounding the Philly heavyweight heading into his HBO-televised co-feature with Chris Arreola in June ’08. Both fighters were un...