Deontay Wilder vs Chris Byrd

Wilder catches him

 

Byrd underestimate him and gets clipped

 

Wilder wouldn't touch Byrd. Byrd would make him look stupid. Wilder doesn't have the footwork or balance.

 

Byrd UD.

Wilder might have the odd moment, but he'd have been shown a clear level and dominated.

 

lol are you guys forgetting how Byrd beat Tua? And Tua has a much wider arsenal of punches

 

Uncle Al see'd his guy get his hand raised at the end. In a bout most figure, at worst, a draw.

 

Byrd (a natural mw iirc) had no pop but was tall enough to keep tua at range.

wilder is very different to usyk. He’s tall n rangy

 

I'd say Byrd by decision. With his southpaw stance, elusiveness, and speed Chris stopped Tua's power. I think he would have done the same with Wilder (who was no Ibeabuchi).

 

If Wilder can go life and death with Duhaupas, or struggle with Zpilka, then Byrd has more than a shot at beating Wilder.

 

Wilder in his prime was quick and able to throw weird punches that eventually landed. He gets the KO or enough knockdowns for a UD

 

Chris Byrd got floored and needed a gift decision to beat freaking Jameel McCline, for Christ's sake. McCline was gassed after a couple rounds, and Byrd still needed help from the judges.

When Wilder was turning 37, he floored 6'6" 250-pound WBA #2 contender Robert Helenius and stopped him in one round. When Byrd was 37, he got dropped repeatedly and stopped by journeyman light heavy nobody Shaun George.

Byrd was a juicer's juicer. He was on so many steroids, he's had to have his hips replaced, his shoulders and knees, and he nearly had to have his feet cut off from the circulatory damage and blockage. He was this close to being that era's Bob Hazelton. He had all the tell-tale signs of the 90s steroid cheat, and the damage he did to his body caught up with him. Today, in retirement, Byrd weighs in the 160s.

Even with all that cheating for years, Byrd still needed gift decisions to edge out McCline, Oquendo, even freaking DaVarryl Williamson. And he needed a gift decision to even TIE Andrew Golota. Golota outboxed him. Chris Byrd was a terrible heavyweight champion. Just bad.

And if Wilder even signed to fight him, the guys who drag Wilder on here would be bashing Byrd, too, like they do everyone else Wilder's fought.

Wilder demolishes Byrd. Early, mid-rounds, late, whatever.

 

Delusional.

And as if you’ve brought up Shaun George, after he’d burnt muscle, which left him completely depleted with no punch resistance.

 

Wilder would have needed the time and space to have landed.

He doesn’t have a great jab.

He doesn’t have great skills.

He’s not great on the inside.

Against an elusive southpaw, with good upper body movement?

I think Byrd by a decision would have been the safe bet.