Chris Byrd: The Second Best of His Era?

Chris Byrd is probably second or third.

He was a very underrated fighter in his prime. He's the best defensive HW since maybe Jimmy Young. Did things in the rings that middleweights do...

His record is certainly better than Vitali's (and he did beat him fair and square). Unfortunately, his inability to convincingly win a lot of his championship fights hurt his stature.

But the man who beat Tua and Holyfield would school a LOT of today's fighters.

 

I definaltly disagree, he was in too many close fights in which I thought he got gift decisions. Have you ever seen him fight TOS, that was one of the worst championship fights I've ever seen. He was boring as hell to watch and King wouldn't even get him a fight because nobody wanted to watch him fight. And as for beating Vitaly an accomplishment...I guess you never seen the fight, I don't think bryd won a round and Vitaly hurt his shoulder beating on Bryd. That being said he was a skilled boxer and did very well for a guy who was a very small heavyweight.

 

Co sign.

 

Realy fair and square?

 

atsch