AMA About Boxing Terrible Tim Witherspoon 2X Heavyweight Champion of the World Here

Terrible Tim Witherspoon said:
Hello everyone! I was the 2X Heavyweight Champion of the World and sparring partner for Ali. If you have questions about boxing, feel free to ask me!
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Welcome to the forum.
It is an honor to have someone with your experience here and your willingness to offer your knowledge is quite impressive.
 
In your opinion, what is the optimal intensity level for sparring in order for a student to improve? Say, on a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being barely tapping and 10 being a championship fight aiming for a knockout.

How would your answer change according to the level of the boxer and what they were focusing on in their current training?

I collected opinions on this a while back at our gym and only one person voted for level 10/trying for a knockout. However that person was another former 2x world champion, Darrin Van Horn. I theorize that Darrin's experience was a bit different because he had worked with professional sparring partners that he was paying for their time. The rest of us who are sparring with our friends aren't so motivated to give each other concussions.
 
At what age do you feel is the best for transitioning from training/competing to teaching? Is that something you would recommend someone do at the same time, or would teaching interfere with their competing?
 
Another question-How was Don King (not necessarily from a legal standpoint but from a personal)? I've heard many horror stories about him, but they're always stories that a friend of a friend of a fighter of his coach heard, nothing ever direct.
 
Wow.

I hope you stick around, bro.
 
You guys think all the hate directed at Wing Chun made Tim move on? The typical nonsense that gets perpetuated online about it?

I have a thick skin for that sort of thing. Tim doesn't, mentally. Meanwhile, we both see Floyd Mayweather and think "Damn that's how a Crane fights".

He and I are of a like mind, you dig? Not so much some of the rest of you. Still stuck in the "this works, that does not" tribe. Ain't that a shame.
 
Monkey Turned Wolf said:
Was that meant to be a link somewhere? If so, it did not come through.
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No, I was channeling Samuel L. Jackson.

Here's a video of very well equipped Wing Chun MMA fighter. Ever seen a master of at least three animals sprawl? You will.

And to think Terrible Tim isn't even focused on grappling. For him it's all defense, bobbing and weaving.

 
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