Should Vitali Have Rematched Byrd?

If it made financial sense yes, but I think his Brother beat him didn't he?

The brothers were not necessarily in competition with each other but I sensed that for family honour they seemed more keen to take revenge for each other rather themselves.

 

Byrd would not take the fight when Vitali was healthy.

Byrd was in his prime for this fight, and lucked out. I think if this was the end of Vitali's career, he would have finished the fight and risked further injury, but at his age, and sports knowledge he decided not continuing was best for his career.

No one sane thinks Byrd would have won the re-match. Boxing's hall of fame is full of people who quit fights with lessor injuries. No need to list them, I'll assume you who some were.

 

When, when he was recovering from a shoulder injury? LOL. There is no Byrd calling out Vitali post 2001.

Your post and effort here is a failure, as it was Lennox Lewis who dropped a belt to avoid Chris Byrd!

Vitali would have pounded Byrd while he was champion and healthy...Don King had no interest in the fight.

 

Lewis was not keen to face Byrd.

 

Vitali Quit'cko flat out ducked the Byrd rematch. The dude went and fought Hoffman instead , handing Byrd over to his brother. Embarrassing situation in all honesty.

Btw , Vitali could never pound on Byrd. He was totally ineffective against him. Couldn't hurt him , couldn't drop him , couldn't do anything at all to him.

 

So a guy recovering from an injury is ducking someone? Vitali hurt his shoulder as early as round three, and he was easily outpointing Byrd. Healthy, he pounds him.

Even Byrd himself says Vitali was harder to fight, and Wlad pretty much turned him into road kill in the re-match,

 

He dropped a belt to avoid him, and didn't want Ruiz either. SHOCK.

 

It is if that guy goes and fights somebody else , like Vitali did with Hoffman. His skills were too crude against Byrd and that exactly why he never wanted to share the ring with him again.

 

I would have watchd the rematch!

But Byrd was always going to be outgunned in that one.

 

I think that the stars just didn't align for it.