Vitali Admitted Byrd Caused His "Injury"

Indeed. Byrd gets very underrated in a general context. Phenomenal head movement and defensive ability.

 

David Tua and Evander Holyfield.

You're flat out wrong about Chris Byrd. Byrd was an excellent fighter who excelled against slower larger opponents, by doing exactly what he did against Vitali. And not just for a few rounds but continually, throughout the fight. Would he lose a rematch? Hard to say considering Vit was having such little success at landing on him, and the possible psychological fear of trying to go all out against an opponent who so effortlessly avoided your power shots in a past encounter.

Anyway, Vit never rematched Byrd so it's a moot point.

 

He was quality. I really do rate him quite highly and think he'd give most hw's a tough fight.

Vitali is slipping now quite drastically and the fight with Haye probably will never come off. We'll never see him beat a guy with such great defence and he'll never be able to put that stylistic chapter to bed.

Very underrated victory by Byrd based mainly on the fact that most people haven't seen the fight.

 

I like to add to this. Chris Byrd called out Vitali numerous times. I hate using the word 'duck' but it is 100% a duck from Vitali.
There is no possible other explanation because Byrd went on to fight
WLADIMIR. Chris Byrd on Vitali-Wladimir


You lost the WBO title in your next bout to Wladimir Klitschko. What happened in that bout?

Man! IYou know going in to fight Wladimir off of Vitali I’m thinking the same thing. I had trained so hard for the bout, I think I really over trained. Vitali never wanted a rematch, so I was so intent on beating his brother because I got tired of contracts and failed negotiations. I was spent before I even left America, thinking about that fight. I knew it was going to be hard trying to fight Wladimir in Germany after defeating his brother, so I had all odds against me. I got into the fight, he’s just as big as his brother but stronger, and I was thinking, man, this is going to be a hard fight.

 

Wlad shows his great potential in the second Byrd fight with Emanuel Steward in his corner. He was quicker than Byrd and knows how to stop this kind of fighter.

Byrd is very underrated. Vitali missed many punches and was not so dominated as the scorecards was. Most punches missed the target.

 

Good point, Lufcrazy, & I agree strongly.

Over-extension is much more likely to cause chronic injury than just being hit.

 

Lhw chris byrd retired vitali and shattered his glass shoulder

And this was vitali in his prime

 

**** You and your **** posts :deal

 

After that many posts I would think you would have
something intelligent to say. I was wrong. Go and
rewatch the fight then come back with your bull****! :deal

 

:good

 

He still outlanded Byrd and won almost every round.

 

**** No. Are you smoking something, you are saying Byrd would win 7 out of ten fights against Vitali, **** off with the bull****. That is the most stupid post I have ever seen on this site and it comes from YOU! :deal

 

**** off ******. all your posts are bull****! :deal

 

Didn't Sven Ottke jab shoulders until they couldn't throw a single punch with it anymore?

 

BoxingFan 2010 is such a ******. He got so out of control crazy once because people weren't agreeing with him that he sent an angry little PM to Shaunster.