Yeah, that's the wise choice. He should realize now that it's time to hang them up, fighting on would only damage his health. Retire from the sport, don't let the sport retire you.
And just two nights ago, folks on here were picking him over Calzaghe ! He should definitely retire. No-one should even count this fight as a serious part of his resume. Roy should retire too before he gets hurt (or killed) and no-one should count anything he did after Tarver 1.
I'll describe it for you. Byrd's legs were shaky and George couldn't miss with a right hand even if he had told Byrd he was gonna throw it.
In such an event, perhaps your influence (with the BIG guy) will be such that you might 'go back' and repair that mess in the space-time fabric. Other possible missions: Have Ali retire after Spinks (2). Have Louis Stay retired. And if you manage all that, I have a few evenings of a personal nature that I'd like to reconsider....
His legs were not only shaky, they were also SCRAWNY. As soon as I saw his legs I knew things were not going to go well. The fight itself made me rather said. Byrd has nothing left.
I think he will. Getting KTFO'd by a points and accumulation type fighter was prolly the sign he needed.
Let's just hope he doesn't tell himself lght-heavy was too much weight to take off and that made him weak, and then move up to "my natural" cruiserweight. He looks like he's actually sick physically, hope I'm wrong twice here.