In the realm of athletics, David facing Goliath has traveled the ultimate in drama but rarely has the dialogue surpassed the way Chris Byrd kept Jameel McCline away from his IBF heavyweight crown on a squeaky split-decision Saturday night in Madison Square Garden.
As if their families being close friends wasn’t enough human interest, Byrd, 214, spotted the hulking McCline 56 pounds and overcame a second round knockdown with a late domination that put the whip cream on Don King’s Battle For Supremacy in New York before a crowd of 12,777.
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As if their families being close friends wasn’t enough human interest, Byrd, 214, spotted the hulking McCline 56 pounds and overcame a second round knockdown with a late domination that put the whip cream on Don King’s Battle For Supremacy in New York before a crowd of 12,777.
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