Tim Witherspoon: In the Hall of Fame?

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Check your sarcasm detector. Wise beat Chavez and Lawler beat Duran & benitez!

[Nile4000]

No, but Tim is very close.

[1113203]

Does Tim Witherspoon belongs in the hall of fame in Canastota, NY someday?

Explain and why.

. Well he was only the 3rd man ever to regain the heavyweight tile. After Muhammed Ali and Floyd Patterson. He almost would of been 3 time champion and some people say he was robbed when he went the distance with prime Larry Holmes and just lost by SD in probably the best heavyweight championship fight of the 80s he had great brawl with Ray Mercer. He had one of the best overhand rights of all time. And he just fought all the great heavyweights of the 80s and some of the 90s i mean his resume has...

- Larry Holmes
- James "Quick" Tillis
- Greg Page
- Pinklon Thomas
- James "Bone Crusher" Smith
- Tony "TNT" Tubbs
- Frank Bruno
- "Merciless" Ray Mercer
- Andrew Golota

That's a good resume for the time he was boxing in am i wrong?

[margaret thatcher]

of course he shouldnt be a hall of famer

[DrDuke]

Let's discuss, if he did more than Wlad. Someone, bring Alpy on.

[Ezzard]

There's always that feeling he was 50-50 with Holmes and Larry avoided him after that.

[DrDuke]

I had no problems scoring it for Holmes several times. Never had it even or for Witherspoon.

[Ambling Alp II]

Let's discuss, if he did more than Wlad. Someone, bring Alpy on.

Of course Witherspoon did. No reason to discuss that.

[DrDuke]

Let's discuss, if he did more than Wlad. Someone, bring Alpy on.

Of course Witherspoon did. No reason to discuss that.

[HomicideHenry]

Personally I think of all the alphabet champions there was in heavyweight history he would be the best qualified to be in the Hall of Fame because he won a version of the heavyweight title twice.

And let's be honest back in the '80s it was even harder to reach the top than it is today. The saddest part about Witherspoon's career like so many boxers at that time Don King virtually took all of his money.

I'll never forget a quote from Witherspoon where he said something to the effect that he lived in an apartment that he would be embarrassed to show anyone despite him being champion of the world twice.

My personal opinion since they're starting to let in far lesser people into the Hall of Fame in recent years you may as well put 'Spoon in there. It all really started to change in my view when they put Arturo Gatti into the Hall of Fame and as much as I liked the man because he was in so many great fights the man was simply not a great boxer.

[DrDuke]

Personally I think of all the alphabet champions there was in heavyweight history he would be the best qualified to be in the Hall of Fame because he won a version of the heavyweight title twice.

And let's be honest back in the '80s it was even harder to reach the top than it is today. The saddest part about Witherspoon's career like so many boxers at that time Don King virtually took all of his money.

I'll never forget a quote from Witherspoon where he said something to the effect that he lived in an apartment that he would be embarrassed to show anyone despite him being champion of the world twice.

My personal opinion since they're starting to let in far lesser people into the Hall of Fame in recent years you may as well put 'Spoon in there. It all really started to change in my view when they put Arturo Gatti into the Hall of Fame and as much as I liked the man because he was in so many great fights the man was simply not a great boxer.

That's the problem of multiple titles. 'A version of the title' - that's even sounds weird. It's impossible to see it as a real championship. Everyone know, that in the first half of the 80s Larry Holmes was the man. In the second half, after a brief sorting it out, Mike Tyson was the man.

[Seamus]

He really could have been a HOF'er but while the potential was there, the discipline wasn't.

[gilgamesh]

If Tim ain't got in by now. Surely that settles that does it not?

Lots of more deserving guys.