Briggs: Vitali Klitschko Faked Injury To Escape Byrd Fight
By Ruslan Chikov
Former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs has continued dealing out the trash talk. He tells reporter Alexander Pavlov that WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko faked his injury to escape his fight with Chris Byrd in 2000. Byrd won the fight after Klitschko suffered a shoulder injury and was unable to continue after nine rounds. Briggs feels very confident that an upset will happen later today in Hamburg, Germany when he challenges Viatli for his title.
"My victory is only a matter of time. It will be just like the time when Klitschko was figured out by Chris Byrd and Lennox Lewis, and then Vitali [in the Byrd fight] pretended that he suffered a "life-threatening" injury and the fight was stopped. Unlike me, he's a politician, a mayoral candidate, a businessman," Briggs said.
"I can knock him out in the first and in the last round. A lot of people say that I am only capable of knocking an opponent out in the first round. But I'm telling you that I can also knock an opponent out in the last second of the twelfth."
