I had never seen this Vitaly footage! Please explain!!

What a Jackass...you never saw this before and you're a boxing fan? it's been talked about on this very site so many times it should be common knowledge for any poster...

I agree with Merchant if his hand hurt then he should have kept going but when they later determined it was a torn rotator cuff it's easy to see why he quit and with good reason. I'm not gonna start the debate again but this is an obvious BS hater post that only appeared because you're upset that Vitali is back and in good shape

 

He lost the fight because he was unable to continue, end of story. As was the case with his next fight against Lewis.

Kudos to Byrd for making Klit miss often enough to cause damage to his shoulder.

 

Byrd was relentless that night, the way he was walking the bigger man down at the end, throwing punches in bunches and hurting him with every shot he landed. It was like watching prime Tyson in there.

 

Yes, it was a very strange looking fight. Vitali wasn't even hurt or in trouble when he quit after round nine. The only explanation for what happened is that his shoulder injury must have been swelling and throbbing increasingly, and Vitali must have felt he wouldn't be able to block Byrd's punches in the final rounds.

Swedeone: the only rounds that Byrd really won were the fifth and the ninth. Vitali easily won rounds one through four. Rounds six, seven, and eight were basically no-action rounds, with Vitali probably enjoying a very slight edge in those stanzas because of his reach.

Vitali claimed after the fight that he injured his shoulder in the fifth, and based on how the fight played out, his claim seems substantiated.

Byrd tried hard throughout the match, but he could never really land much. Only in the ninth round did it appear that Byrd was taking control of the fight, and even then he wasn't hurting Vitali.

Many journalists claimed at the time that Byrd must have beaten Vitali down and forced him to quit. This is utter nonsense....total stupidity. The obvious truth is that a freak injury incapacitated Vitali and caused him to quit.

Still, it is disgusting that Vitali quit on his stool instead of playing defense for the final three rounds and finishing on his feet.

 

The shoulder injury was a freak event. Byrd did not cause the injury by "making Vitali miss". On the contrary, Vitali was missing because his injury undercut his punching agility.

 

Byrd was hurting Vitali? You are quite the comedian.

 

Well the phrase "it hurts.....too much, we are giving up" should tell you all you need to know, methinks :yep

 

well done :yep :yep :yep

lol at merchant calling byrd's punches "feather dusters"

 

Vitali was talking about his shoulder, not Byrd's punches.

 

lol after watching this, i can just imagine how terryifying its going to be for klitschko when peter comes after him like a clubbing caveman:shock: :yikes

 

:hey :hey

 

How do you know what he was talking about :huh

 

I was just in camp with a heavy that sparred with Vlad in preparations for his fight with Thompson. He claimed that Rahman had one punch KO power that even exceeded Vlads. He actually claimed that punch for punch Rahman was the hardest that he'd ever been hit and he's had about 30 pro fights and tons of ammie experience.

It's not like Chris Byrd ko'd Lennox.

 

And some clowns think Quitaly is better than Joe Louis...:rofl