Just read about what happened to Chris Byrd

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 hated to see Chris go out like that. He is a class act and I wish him the best.

 

About as bad a one-sided beatdown as it gets. Byrd was slow, appeared weight drained, had no snap on his punches, and in his own words "looked like ****."

He took a terrible beating in that fight. It was hard to watch because I like Chris Byrd and this was not the Chris Byrd that most of us have come know.

I have to openly question the way his medical team handled him. For someone who had been obviously concussed to be given morphine and another pain medication seems like a dangerous prescription. I'm no doctor but to give someone heavy duty pain medication after they've had their brain rattled seems risky.

 

Way too slow for LHW...

 

He probably should've just tried Cruiserweight. Given how shot he looked, however, I doubt it would've been much different, though.