Boxing News

A BEDTIME STORY

Steve Bunce

@BigDaddyBunce

Voice of boxing

TNOT all boxing stories are told under lights and with cameras rolling.

Tim Witherspoon once told me a story I knew, but he added a beautiful twist or two. We were sitting on the BoxNation sofa at some point in the middle of the night, watching a prelim from a faraway fight in Las Vegas. It was probably at some point in 2013. The fight is not the story.

I think it was the night he had to bring his little girl. There was a babysitting problem, and Tim arrived with the child at about one in the morning. She was only about two and

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