Tim Witherspoon vs Frank Bruno 

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What position did he play?

Awesome!!!

Time flies.

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More of an abrupt ending than a brutal beating, it was a very competitive fight right up until the very final exchange. Thats HW boxing, in particular, one punch can not only change a fight, it can change a life, for better or worse.

It seems that witherspoon said frank did him a lot of damage, despite tim winning well

It was bullshit the way Sky fucked him over. He was a good pundit and nice man. RIP.

@@James-th7wb What did Sky do to him?

@@ppuh6tfrz646 Sacked him after cursing on air if I remember correctly

@@James-th7wb Do you know which fight/event this was?

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Oh well...

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Thanks. We love bruno in the uk. He brought us some respect again in the heavies after a few years very negative (when bugner had a retirement spell)

@Paul Blackman Marijuana is not steroids.

@Paul Blackman Steroids. Are. Not. Marijuana.

It's the 80s.

Just a different time.

Those traces of Marjuana made all the difference

what happened how did it all change

You must be on a different planet . Tyson wouldve killed him .

Tyson woulda chewed him up n spat him out, just like he did to everyone else in that era

Tyson was unbeatable in his prime .

@@Lord_Hillcrest Only in his own era. Prime Joe Louis, Marciano, Patterson, Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Holmes all woulda taken chunks outa him, n probably would need 3-5 fights to separate em. But between 1986-1990 there was nobody who could live with him. What Tyson was & what we haven't seen since, he was extremely aggressive & extremely confident in his fight ending ability. He threw with a ferocious conviction very few could handle & he could do it for 12 rds, he was a phenomenal athlete, he had a great chin too & when it came to sweet science he was second to none. Holyfield was a very special fighter n if it wasnt for him Tysons second reign mighta lasted into the 2000s, although I think 1992-1996 Riddick Bowe woulda been a hell of a problem for him.

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@Smash Revino witherspoon would've killed tyson

@Smash Revino buster Douglas battered him an he was a journeyman

@@solidcake3401 ;;;;;;;; How did - BRIAN NEILSON, MIKE JAMESON, JESSE FERGUSON, BUSTER MATHIS, LOU SAVERESE, CLIFFORD ETIENE, FRANS BOTHA, LARRY HOLMES, TYRELL BIGGS, JAMES TILLIS, REGGIE GROSS, MITCH GREEN, JOSE RIBALTA, HENRY TILMAN, BRUCE SELDON, MARVIS FRAZIER, ALFONZO RATLIFF, ALEX STEWART,, TREVOR BERBICK , PINKLON THOMAS, TONY TUBBS, FRANK BRUNO, CARL WILLIAMS, TONY TUCKER, ANDREW GOLOTA, RAZOR RUDDOCK & MICHAEL SPINKS all do against MIKE TYSON ????……..... Did they all BATTER him like DOUGLAS did ????...………. Oh I forgot, how did BONECRUSHER do against MIKE TYSON ???, did he batter TYSON like how he battered WITHERSPOON easily in 1 rd ????

@@entertainingsportshighligh7525 Don King kept terrible tim away from tyson for a reason. And why have you just named a people some boxers beat? That doesn't make no point at all... Every boxers beat bums dumb dumb

Bruno got paid his handlers took care of him Spoon won the fight then gets ripped off by daddy king snake Don

Only the good die young.

DK's hair repesents his descent in the freefall elevator to Hell, where if there is eschatological justice, he will burn and burn for eternity in the pain he visited upon others in life

Don king AKA no Vaseline

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Where's your proof that Don King "compelled" Witherspoon to take a dive? Tim was way more valuable to Don as a champion. Dumb comment guy.

Talk about a real parisite that King is a greedy leech

Don King is doing the sabe now. Warren says he hadn’t paid damiel Dubois

was it an easy fight for Tim ?

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According to spoon in interviews- yes pretty easy .

he never fully extended his arms while throwing a punch. always looked like he was only throwing half punches

Looks intimidating but not the best for boxing

Muscles I mean

​@@beauyerks7413 With the exceptions of Ike ibeabuchi who was a machine high volume puncher till this day

Yes this is a valid point. In the radio commentary for this v fight (wasnt televised live in uk i think...at least not terrestrial) henry cooper summarising said the pubchibg muscle isnt a big one its a long one. I cant quite understand that but it might have something to do with speed as well as power?

Lewis!!!! The British hero!! Please!! Who did he beat? Holyfield was already ko'd by Bowe and beaten by Moorer!! Oh wait....I do know who beat him....a mentally unstable journeyman and an undefeated bum who built his record on bums. Had Lewis never lost those fights, I would say he was it....but all he was, was the best of a shit era.....we got Louis, ALI, Marciano, Dempsey, Frazier, Foreman, Tyson, but you guys had Naseem Hamed hahahaha!!!!

Leman Kurtz I think he was referring to the clown ringside commentator laughing about how bad British boxers are...

How you figure that? Probably why he faught on HBO so much and did commentary for them.

@@lemankurtz8950 lol you've gone crazy cause american boxing has been exposed... Who's the biggest star in American boxing? Canelo a Mexican and tyson fury an English man... Lennox lewis exposed the american heavyweights... And now your in our shadow

Leman Kurtz a shit era? The 90’s is acknowledged as the greatest era after the 70’s. If you’re talking our eras . . . that would be the 80’s and the 00’s

Only the Brits were believing that bullshit & the Yanks were n probably still are laughing at em for it.

King knew Terrible was a threat to Mike Tyson

Frank was not great 🙄

@@harryheath9928 Tim Witherspoon got sparked in the next fight by Bonecrusher Smith so i dont think Witherspoon was a threat

Frank would have been way better with a better trainer

Bruno was never in the top 5. Too muscle bound and lacked technique and power. Lennox had all of that!

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@@timwitherspoon1378 well said!!

Whitherspoon was a highly seasoned amateur & by then he had already been in with Holmes n nearly beat him, had beaten Bonecrusher & was a reigning 2 x World Champ. Bottom line, he was just way, way ahead of where Bruno was as a boxer, he had paid WAY WAY more dues at a higher level than Bruno n mentally there was no way he was gonna lose in those circumstances. Bruno was about as good as he could have been in the circumstances, it was a 50/50 fight right up until the final exchange, he done well vs a 2 x Champ who was very much in his prime.

Blue dog he just hadnt got it ive written earlier above he wasnt a bad man it Destroyed his family

@@SPIDERM0OSE frank seemed very insecure and projected zero confidence

Harry Carpenter had a habit of editing fight commentaries before tv airings to make himself look like nostradamus

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Absolute shit knowledge by the yanks

And he was being paid for that effort. One of the most insular nations on earth.

Ref waved the fight off dufus 🙄

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Bruno was an embarrassing disappointment to the UK. He lost against 2 bums, and KO'd within 3 rounds against an over the hill Tyson who just came out of prison. Also, let's not forget the Lewis fight in 1993. Yes, Bruno was ahead on points but let's not forget that Lennox hadn't reached his peak yet and the fact that Bruno couldn't take a punch very well. But tbh, I had that fight a draw on my scorecard before the stoppage. Bruno couldn't even hold a major belt. The only time he did was in the Oliver McCall fight, and tbh, he was nearly KO'd in the 11th or 12th round and I bet on any money if it was a 15th rounder, he would of been TKO'd in the 14th round. Even when he managed to beat McCall for the WBC belt, he couldn't even defend it not even once when he fought an over the hill Tyson. In all fairness, Bruno was a brilliant fighter and possibly an elite journeyman and a B level fighter, but was extremely overrated by the British public. He was a paper champion and nothing more. Maybe if he worked on his defence, fought in spurts and paces and was more betterly disciplined, he could of been great for his era, but in the end, he was nothing but a lost talent. The only British Heavyweight that managed to accomplish things and to be underrated is probably Lennox Lewis. In fact he is my favourite fighter and always will be.

@@jacobh7188 world champion not anything to be embarrassed about. I thought Frank was one of those characters who was good for the sport. Of Lennox was the absolute best but frank was cool. The press conference with him and lewis was the first time I had ever heard British people talk with slang and insult each other. He wasn't the best but he was good.

@@jacobh7188 naw man Bruno was a good dude and a good fighter he represented the UK well

@@jacobh7188 Haha, you called Bruno 'brilliant fighter' then 'elite journeyman' and then 'B level' all in the same sentence. 😂😂

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Shit I don't wanna feel em

Keeping your opponent guessing so you can land a big bomb i imagine

Ye I always thought that

Tippy tappy punches score points if they land on the head and body.

Did the same against lewis it was a technic they taught him to stay busy I guess.

Utter crap fella, total and complete CRAP !!

Yes! He always have Sucked! 1love

Merchant definitely wasn't shy about what he was feeling. I disagree with your comment when it comes to Barry Thompkins and SRL. Especially Thompkins, he is one of the best ever and didn't show bias.

@@torinowens6103 If he sucks for speaking his mind, then yes he sucks. Talking about Tim's shape and his state of mind, doesn't make him suck. It how he phrases it in such a condescending manner that most people take offensive with. As a commentator, he isn't that great. As boxing personality, he was great at that.

Pretty cool pre fight psyche warfare. The Yanks back in the day were a Boisterous big bad presence.

@Boris The Blade Witherspoon would indeed have had every chance of beating Tyson. Tyson had his limitations against big athletic heavyweights who could take a shot.

The tyson team kept mike away from witherspoon in the early days as tim wasnt afraid of mike, it is widely regarded he threw the smith fight just to escape don king.

@@alarmactionukalarmactionuk893 Exactly right. The witherspoon that faced Holmes and Bruno would've ended the myth of 'iron Mike' before it started.

@@bigdaddy4069 mike was brilliant to watch but he had flaws such as he stood square on and could be knocked off balance as he lept from the crouch throwing hooks. smith tucker and bruno all proved this with good counter punches.witherspoon being savvy and fast would of tested mike to the limit and may of worn him out over a long tedious fight.

@@alarmactionukalarmactionuk893 plus its a proven fact that Tyson NEVER overcame adversity in the ring and if you stood up to him, he lost. Classic bully, regardless of his physical ability.

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@@timwitherspoon1378 I'm with you champ... on boxing scene and here.

I agree! Larry Merchant was wrong.

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Bruno boxed really good until he was knocked out.

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He beat OLIVER MCCALL for the HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP of the WORLD...

He was a world champion pal

@@entertainingsportshighligh7525 exactly

Don King.

@@BrooklynAvenue Duly noted...

@@BrooklynAvenue LMAO

Mike Tyson happened n wise men plotted a career course that avoided him.

I thougjt it was "Terrible" Tim Witherspoon, not treacherous Tim Witherspoon, maybe I'm on the wrong side of the pond.

@@aarondigby9859 If you are "in the know" as they say you will know that Tim Witherspoon prefers the name "Treacherous" over "Terrible" because being called 'Terrible" in Tim's train of thought could make the word "terrible" mean that he is a terrible fighter. Witherspoon got that nickname years ago in the early 1980's so he sort of got stuck with it you see. Friends and fighters call him treacherous but when the ring announcer gets ready to announce the fighters names it's Terrible Tim Witherspooon!!! Get it? Yes? No.

for a guy with a semi class as you say, he sure took a lot of solid rights to the jaw. every boxer can only take so many punch's

I find that hard to believe.

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Spoon was built like a professional wrestler from the 60's.

@@johnulmer1622 dude why are they see through look at 1:10:29

z06guy 04 I don’t no why this happens with old video, but I’ve seen it in old Morecambe and Wise videos too.

I think you'll find that, once a referee puts his arms around a fighter, the ref has formally stopped the fight.

And I think you'll find the referee is Venezuelan and was appointed by the WBA. Clearly the fight had been stopped otherwise the ref would not have man handled Bruno. It would have taken you seconds to google for that information.

Paul Wiley Frank Bruno was a boring dull fighter without killer instinct /heart and guts , never threw hard double jabs / uppercut /flurries or power punches in bunches...he was a scared fighter against tough competition , such a letdown !

@@cozycool3505 I disagree. Bruno fought some roundheels & despatched them quickly enough. But he could never be accused of lacking guts when he fought the big contenders. So he lost - big deal! He never lost without making the fight a real contest. I hark back to the days of Henry Cooper, who was never gonna be World Champion. But when he put Ali on the canvas, he achieved fame for all time.

@@cozycool3505 Undoubtedly Frank Bruno was limited from a technical point of view but his right was very heavy, Whiterspoon himself said that he was the hardest puncher I face during his career.

If he was being well managed though, im not sure why he went straight to fight tyson again after getting the title? Unless it was just the payday?

@@scottybottybanana The payday was important no doubt but many a fighter has been managed to take minimal risk in between title shots. Gerry Cooney springs to mind. I have seen interviews where Cooney laments how his management team became obsessed with the Larry Holmes title fight to the point where Cooney was inactive for a huge period of time and by the time they fought he was not battle hardened against decent top tenners.

Bruno fought Tillis, Gross, Bugner, Ribalta, Pierre Coetzee, Carl Williams and Jesse Ferguson in non title bouts after this loss. Hus record stands up against most heavyweights except for the exceptional world champions.

@@richardbaker3000 None of those fighters were anywhere near title contenders. The best wins of Bruno's career were against Oliver McCall and Gerry Coetzee neither of whom you mentioned.

He was clearly in no fit state to continue, i'm glad the Ref stepped in between them. Frank could've been seriously hurt otherwise.

woody j the bell can’t save you unless it’s the final round

He wasn't counted out. The referee stopped the fight to save Bruno from further punishment. Doesn't matter how much time's left in the round - 8 seconds of punches could see a guy killed.

Hardly.

A snake of the highest order. I'm glad his empire crumbled to dust, whilst his arch rival Arum is still going strong.

Would you even know who Michael Dokes, Tony Tucker, Buster Douglas, Tim Witherspoon or Pinklon Thomas even were if Don King didn’t give those guys fights? 100% sure King made the names I mentioned title holders, and NONE of them would had careers or made half the money they made. Problem was, none of the names I mention were able to manage themselves or the money they made under King. Those fighters ruined themselves. King just gave them a career to ruin.

LaRay Williams the hell he did... he didn't like the boring black fighter. He liked guys who would actually fight

@@nolanknows1401 who gives a damn what he liked. The biggest stars in boxing history have been black.

Tyson fury Is the man

A frank bruno 2.0 would've lost to dillion whyte & wlad & wouldn't have won a gold medal let alone make it to the Olympics

Agreed! 👍🏻

And America

Ouch lol

HAHAHAHA.... You are call two men who became champions while dedicating themselves to their jobs and conducting themselves well in life "bums"... You sir must be some guy! or not lol