Chris Byrd's resume is underrated

Guys while I strongly agree that Byrd was a highly respectable if somewhat unexciting fighter at heavyweight , I really doubt Lennox Lewis ducked him or would have lost to him .. Lewis was the best super heavyweight of all time with the possible exception of Bowe's very short prime and that sort of mountain was too high a climb.

 

Look no one wrote the book so who knows ? I don't agree but that's just my take.

 

I still believe Byrd was all wrong... ...for exciting fights.

 

I think Lewis would have been a massive betting favorite. Don't you?

An overused truism does not really explain how Byrd could have beaten Lewis.

You should be thankful Byrd never faced Lewis because, again, it would have just exposed Byrd's limitations at the elite level.

Not only that... ...but, as a result of Lewis' generous humanity, Byrd was allowed to keep his health and face Holyfield and his zimmer frame instead. On that basis alone, he was able to accumulate a handful of nondescript and controversial wins/draw, until he ran into the fists of a Klitschko, again.

All-in-all - Lewis did Byrd a favor.

 

There are a good few boxing commentators and scribes I listen to or read, with the thorough expectation that their words will carry some meaning and worth.


Max Kellerman isn't one of them.

 

You're just going by record.


Head to head Lennox is too big and strong for Chris.

Lewis by KO.

 

^^^^^This! I would be more likely to disregard if Max is the expert witness lol

 

Chris Byrd and his nuthuggers are out in force on this thread. Who would have thought a post about a boring fighter that nobody wanted to see except knocked out on the canvas would have made it 7 pages. Im going to pop in my tape of Chris doing the electric boogaloo against Shaun George while looking like a teenage anorexia patient for another laugh... You know when Byrd was two years younger than the supposedly prime Holyfield he beat...

 

Chris Byrd was a non-factor in the Lewis era , but in the post Lewis era he was a world champ and the #1 rated HW in the world. Feat he achieved cos the era was so poor.

There's a reason why Klitschko fanboys speak so highly of him - they have no other choice. lmao!!

 

^ There's one of the Byrd haters I mentioned earlier, and why he hates Byrd - confirmed