Chris Byrd vs Razor Ruddock

Byrdman.


Way too smart in there and he has a top set of whiskers if he does get hit. Another huge problem I see for Ruddock is how he'd look against a southpaw. I sure don't see him doing even adequate prefight preperations. He might do ok against a Joe Hipp or catch Moorer eventually, but not a slippery guy like Byrd. And that woeful Ruddock punch output is not going to win rounds against this guy when he might land 20% of his punches anyway.

 

Primes I assume, I think Ruddock catches him at some point.. Byrd has nothing to hold Ruddock off and his chance is to box, box, box which he could do, I just see Razor getting to him and then closing him out at some point..

 

Rudduck pressures, walks him down and knocks him out mid rounds

 

Ruddock KO5 using the Smash.

 

This

 

Oh and this too

 

Ruddock by KO.

 

I think Byrd outboxes him for the UD.

 

Ruddock stops him.

 

Yes. Inside 6 rounds.

 

watch byrd/ike...............only not as quick...

 

It's a great match-up. I guess I'd favor Ruddock to knock him out. Ruddock usually didn't throw much when he was intimidated by a big puncher; I don't see him fearing Byrd at all, and just eventually clocking Chris pretty hard. McCline had Byrd down twice, but Ruddock is a bigger puncher than Jameel was. I like Razor here.

 

Byrds defense is such that he very rarely gets hit but when he does, he can get hit clean. Byrd would be winning the boxing match and leading for the duration but all it takes is one smash.

If I had to I would favor Razor. Byrd wouldn't be able to keep him off.

 

i don't know, i think the best byrd has a chance here. can't seem to recall ruddock fighting a boxer quite as slick as byrd and i think his southpaw stance works very much against "the smash". gonna call byrd a live underdog here