When did Eddie Chambers get great?

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  1. Wizbit1013

    Wizbit1013 Drama go, and don't come back Full Member

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    Nice assault on precinct reference :beer-toast1:
     
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  2. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Chambers would beat Chris Byrd. All the Byrdies think Lennox Lewis not fighting Byrd is a stain on his legacy. He was the original strain of Usykism.
     
  3. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    If he did, Byrd would be far and away the best win on Chambers’ resume.

    Yet Chris beat fighters better than Eddie.

    I have to go with Byrd had they fought given what we can clearly see as demonstrated ceiling — Eddie lost to all the better guys he faced and beat the B-listers; Byrd beat some A-listers.
     
  4. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    How did each do against Povetkin?

    (Yes, Byrd was slipping by then…but come on.)
     
  5. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Another unpopular opinion of mine. I would pick Brock to beat Byrd as well. I consider Brock to be better H2H albeit by fairly small margin.

    I see the small Americans of the period as Chambers/Brock/Byrd.
     
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  6. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I don’t see it. Neither Eddie nor Brock beat anyone of note or made any sort of a mark.

    Byrd did. He has to rate higher.

    (Unless we’re talking about Lesnar, lol?)
     
  7. NoNeck

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    Brock outperformed Byrd against McCline in the same year. Chambers outperformed Byrd against Povetkin. Chambers fought Povetkin instead of Byrd because Byrd lost. Chambers beat Brock.

    Brock would be a narrow underdog against Byrd and Chambers would be about even money.
     
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  8. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    My man! :beer-toast1:

    Precinct 13 was the first movie I caught on widescreen in 1995. I remember widescreen was originally called Letterbox back then and it really captured a larger than life structure lost on the tv.

    Carpenter was a genius.
     
  9. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Byrd struggled against lower level HWs in an easier era then they did IMO. Byrd has a bigger body of work for sure. But that body of work doesn't prove hes better. He just did more during his career.