Bryd gets ko'ed by a lhw with 7kos in 20 fights

Dam this is sad, he comes across as a really nice bloke who was really enthusiastic about the change in career.

It's always good to see blokes loving what they are doing, time for him to move away from fighting and into other areas of the game.

 

Byrd must realize his age. Some have the genetics, some don't. Skill and focus is not always enough.

 

That was really sad to see.

Whatever you may think of him, the man has giant balls of steel!

Here's to ya Chris!:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

 

I have a tremendous amount of respect for Chris Byrd. He's a class-act.

 

2 loses does not make you a journeyman. Why do you even post here you say the dumbest things and are always wrong.

 

I agree my friend....it just suxs thats its Byrd.....fukin aye a hell of a good man...

 

At Least He Still Has Jesus!!!!

Lmfao

 

I'm really sad about it

 

Alot of you dont realize how bad of a transition it is to lose that much weight

look at Roy & Tarver, now look at Byrd, you cant lose 30 pounds or more and expect to become succesful.

 

Damn....I was hoping he might do well @ 175.

 

say what you what to say....but Byrd looked much much stronger at heavyweight..at 175 he looked like a freakin crackhead....just rdy to ....

 

This fight is proof of how being weight drained can affect your ability to take a punch. RJJ, Miguel Cotto, when he was at 140 and now Byrd. Notice how good Miguel's chin is since moving up in weight. The uppercut he recieved from judah would've stopped many fighters.

 

I agree. That’s not to say that his age, in activity and recent beatings didn't have a lot to do with it but losing muscle messes you up bad. For professional, well conditioned athletes to lose weight it’s not like losing weight for us regular folk is, where you just run around a lot in a heavy winter jacket and burn as much fat as possible. These guys don't need to burn fat; they're already in great condition. What they need to do is deconstruct their muscles. As I'm sure you all know muscles are made of lots of interwoven muscle strands. In order to lose weight you need to remove a lot of strands. Unfortunately, you can't control which of these strands are lost when you lose weight rapidly. So you lose muscle function.

Think of your muscles as a stack of Jenga blocks. When you decrease muscle size you can't just pull blocks off the top of the stack. They come out at random within the muscle so what your left with is a tower of blocks with random pieces missing everywhere. So as you can imagine these muscles aren't as tight as they should be (i.e. they don't have the same spring, elasticity and strength as they ought to have). Overtime they reform into well compact stacks. I know Chris tried to take his time to bring the weight down in order to minimize the damage to the muscle in the first place (i.e. minimize the amount of random wholes in the stack) and he was trying to use weights to quickly fill-in the gaps but that’s not a natural way of re-adjusting your muscle. I'm not an expert and I bet he had some pretty good guys advising him but I'd still guess that he didn't give himself enough time to do it right. Definitely should have taken a few really easy fights for at least a year before he tried to take on a decent fighter. It’s a shame cause he's such a good guy and he was really looking to start over again at lightheavy.

 

the weight loss had to play a significant part. i mean his punch resistence looked pretty bad from the get go. george looked pretty powerful for a lhw, but he's no povetkin and i don't think povetkin had byrd stumbling around like that.

too much of a drastic change and imo he didn't look healthy leading up to the fight. if he was going to do this he shoulda fought some bums at cruiser and than lhw (bums first), and take like a year to really work into some good comp. but given his age, i think he really wanted to line himself up quickly for some decent money fights given the interest in the division of late.

 

Yeah I think thats exactly what was going through his head.