byrds a *****

[Neuraxis]

How can you hate somone so much? And I have question are you a boxing fan or just a fight fan?

I can see not liking Byrd as a person(don't know why) but how can you disrespect the mans guts and intestinal fortitude for standing up to those bigger fighters and holding his own. Plus the man is an extremely talented fighter who is exciting in his own way.

I can see where you are coming from, but he is clearly taking the cowards way out by pushing for Barrett instead of Wlad.

[Neuraxis]

.....Yeah but add that to his ****** half grin he gives every time he is hurt and acts like he isn't and it gets old. You could see him mouth "he won" right before the Oquendo scores were announced and then he changed his tune when he got the decision and was interviewed afterwords. The guys is a hypocrit and a poor excuse for a heavyweight. He has no bad intentions on his punches and he belongs in a lower weight class. When true heavyweight fans watch a fight they wanna know that their guy wants to knock the other guy out. Byrd is looking for the slappy decision by pitter patting and running. Is that your kind of heavy? What the hell is there to like about that in a heavyweight boxer? You want that **** then go and watch the welters.

You forgot "wooh, woooh."

[+= El Jefe=+]

yeah

Byrd is a *****
mmm and that is new because??

[Stickman]

....I think his wife may be one of the reasons I can't stand the guy. Did you see the Wlad fight? She is running her mouth and screaming non stop up until the 9th when Byrd really starts getting killed and then you don't hear another word. You can't even hear the announcing that well because of her big mouth. Some dumb ***** screaming instructions and talking nonsense ringside during a heavyweight fight? STFU **** that loud mouthed *****!!!

I think the reason you were hearing her over everything else is because the audio from the fight is mixed with a mic that either she's wearing, or is very close to her. Or maybe she is just a loudmouth, I dunno In the version I saw, all I could here was the German announcer, and her voice, until she grew too concerned for Chris to make noise, and got quiet. Almost no crowd noise at all. And if that's how the crowds really are in Germany (corpus quiet) I don't blame Byrd for not wanting to go back there. It would suck, to fight in front of a crowd that didn't have a pulse.

Anyway, lots of people scream during a boxing match, I can't hold that against her, or that she was yelling encouragement to her husband. Someone needed to, he was getting his ass kicked

[whdempsey]

from *********
"....Byrd, the IBF heavyweight titlist, is slated to fight Wladmir Klitschko again on April 16th. King, who in the past has had financial disputes with Byrd, is providing the fighter with his minimum purse requirement. Byrd refuses to fight Klitschko in Germany though, the site of their first fight, because he is afraid of foul tactics that he said caused his original loss to Wladimir"

***in idiot, wat were these 'foul tactics'. y doesn't he just accept his losses.
i hope wlad KO's him in 1
i dun like byrd cuz he has an excuse for everything. he felt that there was no KD against ibeabuchi
idiot

Spell **** right. Moron. Really, is it so much to ask that you hit the keyboard one more time?

I don't like you because your dismissing statements made by one of the true class acts in the game. Yeh, sometimes he's a jerk, and sometimes he sounds self-righteous or ****y, but he doesn't lie. Hell, he is not half as full of himself as a lotta guys out there. Bottom line, if Byrd says something was wrong in that fight, I don't doubt there was.

[whdempsey]

I can see where you are coming from, but he is clearly taking the cowards way out by pushing for Barrett instead of Wlad.

You've gotta be kidding me. The coward's way out by not wanting to fight a guy who hasn't looked good in TWO YEARS? I dunno if you caught this little bit of info, but Wlad actually lost twice by knockout in his past five outing. He has one highly inconclusive win over a guy who's essentially a journeyman. Yeh, Byrd's a coward because he wants to fight a guy who's fighting better than ever and has always been reasonably hard to beat. Unless you're a friggin behemoth, that is. Look, regardless of whether you like Wladimir or not, you should be able to admit that he does not, at this stage of his career, deserve a title shot as much as Monte Barrett. That's all I'm asking for.

[Neuraxis]

You've gotta be kidding me. The coward's way out by not wanting to fight a guy who hasn't looked good in TWO YEARS? I dunno if you caught this little bit of info, but Wlad actually lost twice by knockout in his past five outing. He has one highly inconclusive win over a guy who's essentially a journeyman. Yeh, Byrd's a coward because he wants to fight a guy who's fighting better than ever and has always been reasonably hard to beat. Unless you're a friggin behemoth, that is. Look, regardless of whether you like Wladimir or not, you should be able to admit that he does not, at this stage of his career, deserve a title shot as much as Monte Barrett. That's all I'm asking for.

If Wlad was the title holder and he could either face Sanders or Brock, and he went for Brock, everyone and his mother would be calling Wlad a coward, and rightfully so. If Wlad has looked so bad why shouldn't Byrd want to avenge his worst loss in what should be an "easy" fight in your opinion? Barrett has nothing that can beat Byrd, and Byrd knows this, so that's why he is pushing for this fight.

[Stickman]

You've gotta be kidding me. The coward's way out by not wanting to fight a guy who hasn't looked good in TWO YEARS? I dunno if you caught this little bit of info, but Wlad actually lost twice by knockout in his past five outing. He has one highly inconclusive win over a guy who's essentially a journeyman. Yeh, Byrd's a coward because he wants to fight a guy who's fighting better than ever and has always been reasonably hard to beat. Unless you're a friggin behemoth, that is. Look, regardless of whether you like Wladimir or not, you should be able to admit that he does not, at this stage of his career, deserve a title shot as much as Monte Barrett. That's all I'm asking for.

Barrett and Byrd would probably be a less boring fight than Vlad and Byrd, but I don't feel that Barret deserves the shot at the title much more than Vlad. He's performed well a few times in a row, but I think it should take more than that to get a title shot. I think King wants Byrd to have a rematch with Vlad for

A: The money

And

B: The Money.

I honestly don't think King believes Byrd will win, or even cares, he just wants the money it'll make him. He knows that Byrd stands a good chance at losing his title against whoever he fights next, and he wants a big payday before it's gone and byrd is back to fighting for 1/2 mil purses again.

[whdempsey]

If Wlad was the title holder and he could either face Sanders or Brock, and he went for Brock, everyone and his mother would be calling Wlad a coward, and rightfully so. If Wlad has looked so bad why shouldn't Byrd want to avenge his worst loss in what should be an "easy" fight in your opinion? Barrett has nothing that can beat Byrd, and Byrd knows this, so that's why he is pushing for this fight.

That's a silly comparison to make. If Wlad had a title right now, he would have won it against Davarryl Williamson, and still would not have redeemed himself following either the Brewster loss or the Sanders loss. Point being, Byrd has proven his worth even after the bad loss to Wlad, and Barrett seems to be at a better point in his career than Wlad. So, if Klitschko were doing really well right now, and Byrd chose not to fight him, he would be taking the coward's way out. But he's not. He's doing really, really poorly. Don't try putting lipstick on this pig. It's a bad fight. Especially compared to the other options.

And the quotation marks around easy are unnecessary, since I never said it'd be an easy fight. As a matter of fact, I think Klitschko will always pose certain stylistic problems for Byrd. Does that mean he'd be Byrd again? No. It means Byrd would lose two or three rounds.

[whdempsey]

Barrett and Byrd would probably be a less boring fight than Vlad and Byrd, but I don't feel that Barret deserves the shot at the title much more than Vlad. He's performed well a few times in a row, but I think it should take more than that to get a title shot. I think King wants Byrd to have a rematch with Vlad for

A: The money

And

B: The Money.

I honestly don't think King believes Byrd will win, or even cares, he just wants the money it'll make him. He knows that Byrd stands a good chance at losing his title against whoever he fights next, and he wants a big payday before it's gone and byrd is back to fighting for 1/2 mil purses again.

I sorta agree with you here. For Don King it's definitely about the money. But I do believe that Barrett has much more right to a title shot right now than Klitschko does. Still, I agree with your basic statement, that fighters oughta do more than just win a few in a row to get a title shot. But should earning a title shot be synonymous with a big name looking for a way back to the top?