The older generation of world heavyweight boxing champion Tim Witherspoon talked about today's heavyweight big three, Tyson Fury, Deonte Wild and Anthony Joshua, Witherspoon bluntly said that these three so-called boxing giants in the era of Boxing King Mike Tyson are not long-lasting, even short-lived.
Witherspoon believes that several of today's masters lack absolute strength, including their opponents, and the quality is generally not high. Compared with the heavyweight boxing of that year, it is at least one grade behind.
Witherspoon said: "These heavyweight boxers today, in Tyson's time, or in our time, they are untenable, basically short-lived characters. Look at the boxers that Deonte-Wilde has beaten, what are the goods? If in our day, there were probably 30-40 boxers among his opponents who wouldn't get the approval of the boxing committee, and they wouldn't be qualified to fight with us, or they wouldn't be allowed to fight with Tyson and Hollyfield.
Witherspoon continued: "The opponents they played against could not play with the top 15 champions of our time. Although Wilder's right hand punches were good, it didn't prove his strength, including Tyson Fury and Joshua, who are very few really tough in today's heavyweights. ”
In fact, the boxers of our time were very fierce and exciting, but the business operation was poor. I don't think boxing fans will ever see the best games of our time again. I don't see their technology, they hype themselves more through clever packaging and deception, where money is dominant. ”
Witherspoon is an American heavyweight with a height of 1.92 meters and an arm span of 1.98 meters, and has twice become a heavyweight boxing champion. He began to challenge Larry Holmes, but failed. Later, he defeated Greg Pez and won the WBC throne. The first defending game was lost to Pinkon Thomas. Later, he beat Tony Tubbus in points and became a WBA champion. 11 rounds KO King Kong Bruno successfully defended his title. But he was killed by James Smith in one second and lost the throne.
Witherspoon is a ruthless man, he is also a famous player in the 1980s and 1990s, and although he and Tyson do not intersect, they are basically the boxers of the same era as Tyson. There is some truth in his words, today's so-called Big Three, the strength is indeed not as strong as Tyson, Hollyfield and Lewis in that era, generally a notch lower. At least the ornamentality of boxing is a little worse, and there are more factors in commercial packaging.
If Fury, Wilder and Joshua encounter boxing champions Tyson, Hollyfield and others, there is a high probability of being KO, especially Wilder and Joshua, and their own shortcomings are obvious. I have to say that today's heavyweight boxing seems to have really declined. What do you think? Welcome to leave a message. 【Text/Fighting Jianghu】