Rewatching Vitali vs Byrd

No , you went for a as it is written so it shall be type mentality.

Ignoring Byrds handicaps in that fight and making excuses for Vitali's makes you inauthentic.

 

Why do you ignore Byrds setbacks ?

He won without a camp and gameplan. He adapted , Vitali could not adapt

 

The real shame with career is that he sat out prime years w injuries and didn’t get a Lewis rematch.

Keep in mind he beat Gomez who imo was a southpaw at Byrd’s level and Chisora w a torn ligament in his shoulder. And he was was + or - 40 years old when these fights happened.

 

If you want to have your arguments considered & believed credible, you have to make sure you are not as incautious, biased & inaccurate-assuming the best that you did not lie-as you accuse your opponent to be.

The difference between their weight was 33.5 lbs, not 45 lbs..
You were nowhere near correct-if it was 45 lbs. the fight would not have been sanctioned, as Byrd would have been under 200 lbs., not almost precisely 211 lbs.

Just look these things up next time. It took a couple seconds to find these [url]search results[/url].

 

You don't dock Vitali for losing to a guy who had training camp having took the fight on a weeks notice off the couch.
Vitali wouldn't rematch a Byrd with a full camp. . Where's the lie?

 

I don't know what you are. I only read the posts about boxing. Everything else is irrelevant to me. It appears you don't/can't discuss box fighting in your own thread. Thats weaksauce

 

Debate the round in which Vitali was injured? Lets debate you not observing nor scoring all the body shots landed by Birdie

 

I'd pick Gomez to beat Byrd. He suffered from promotional issues and a failed drug test that was possibly bull****. He beat Vyrches wide; Vyrches was a top ten fighter who only lost a MD to Chagaev, but wasn't exposed to the US and UK. I've never seen Byrd fight at the level of Gomez against Tarver. Gomez was never down on the cards until Vitali.