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

Wow, GREAT analogy, that really put it in perspective for me, thanks.

 

He was not right from the bell. He needs a CAT Scan, looks reminiscent of somebody with a latent head injury.

 

I'm baffled as to why Byrd at the age of 37 would chose to drop 40 lbs and go all the way down to LHW.....

Why not have dropped just 15 lbs and fought at Cruiserweight?

What made Bryd such a troublesome heavyweight, was that he was so much quicker and faster than just about all of them.

I thought that Bryd had lost quite a bit of speed and quickness even by the time he became champion when he fought an old Holyfield.....that was quite a few years back, and he only got worse from that Holyfield fight, getting gift after gift and staying champion for a few defenses.

Why on earth did he think he'd be effective against much quicker fighters at 175 lbs is beyond all comprehension.

The weight drop only made it worse, but imo Bryd is a completely shot fighter and would'nt compete with a top 15 fighter at any weight!

 

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Byrd's career is over. He looked slow compared to his opponent and he didn't fight anything like he used to. At heavyweight he was always the counter puncher but he simply does not have the speed or snap in his punches anymore to be able to box as he once did, especially at light heavyweight against faster opposition.

A real shame, I would have loved to have seen Byrd be a real contender at light heavyweight but at 37 having had a long career fighting men naturally 40-50lbs heavier than him it should be no suprise that he has little left.

Hopefully he retires as he has nothing left to prove at this point. Even a shot Jones Jr at this point would be too much for him.

 

Great analogy. I was always a little scepticle about how much the weight loss effected Jones Jr and Byrd but if you put it that way it makes perfect sense. :good

 

I think he'll retire. He had that "**** me" look about him,like he knew at that moment he had booked one fight too many.

 

byrd lost his power,speed,stamina...everything,
he was absolutly completely drained after that weightloss.
i have never watched byrd being so bad....
were the hell is byrd´s trainer or nutritionist?
if you loose a lot of weight,and do that fast,and at the same time trains like an animal.it will cost you strenght,stamina,speed.
it has to be done by a pro.
magnificentdave knows what it takes.
a sad day for chris byrd.

 

Thanks for the props.

And yeah, losing muscle's no joke. I'm mean think about it everyone had that friend who was the fastest guy on the field until he broke his leg really bad and had to spend 3 months in a cast. It didn't take him long to get his muscle size back but it took two years before he was back to the level he used to be at. Personally, I had at least four friends that had this happen to them.

I mean taking off muscle isn't the end of the world and you can do it right and Byrd had professional strength coachs helping him make his move down too, which is the right way to do it. But having 25 yrs of boxing and some pretty solid beatings under your belt doesn't help the situation. I guess it seems like at this point in his career there was probably no way he could have lost that much weight and done it right.

 

Damn

 

I'd still say that going down to LHW was the right move for Byrd. I mean he didn't have no future in the HW division, so he had to try something completely different. It just didn't work out. But at least he tried. He had a great career and he should retire now. The fact that he managed to come down to LHW from HW demands a lot of respect in itself.

I never really liked watching Byrd, but one has to respect him - he was competitive with the best HWs for years, guys that were much bigger and stronger than him, he always fought his heart out, took the biggest shots from Klitschko and Ibeabuchi and still got up. He beat some good HWs and even held two belts.

 

I would think that Byrd should've done the same thing that Jones should've done go to cruiserweight. Now I think they both should retire.

 

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Also Fernando Vargas.. I know he was not himself anymore at the time but god damn he had unsteady legs.