TONEY VS. BYRD - Jul 23rd!!! Boxrec.com

[Grimgash]

The only reason people are scared of Valuev is because hes one ugly mother...... no one wants to see him as champ. Can u imagine him wearing "accesorries" ? lol Im just kidding.... or am i?

[Prince Harry]

The only reason people are scared of Valuev is because hes one ugly mother...... no one wants to see him as champ. Can u imagine him wearing "accesorries" ? lol Im just kidding.... or am i?

this isent a beuty contest, bambi!

by the way, terror is beuty and valuev is mr universe!

[Bombardier]

Byrd does not have what it takes to KO Toney.
However Toney has what it takes to outbox Byrd..

Best 19-word assessment you're going to get about this fight. I agree.

[!! Mr. Soprano]

Best 19-word assessment you're going to get about this fight. I agree.

Well, Thank you kindly LOL

[Martin (Top Knowledge)]

If Toney beats Byrd, or Byrd beats Toney, D'you reckon people will start calling them the REAL heavyweight champion?

I hope not!

I think that if you wanna call yourself the heavyweight champion of the World, you've gotta fight and beat Vitali Klitscho.

[Truth]

Wow - This What We All Hoped For!

IBF Heavyweight Title
WBA Heavyweight Title
IBA Heavyweight Title

This is great , good job vdiary on reporting this. Will this be a PPV? or HBO/Showtime?

[neils7147933]

If Toney beats Byrd, or Byrd beats Toney, D'you reckon people will start calling them the REAL heavyweight champion?

I hope not!

I think that if you wanna call yourself the heavyweight champion of the World, you've gotta fight and beat Vitali Klitscho.

If Byrd beats Toney, he'll have the WBA and IBF belts, a win over WBC champ Vitali Klitchko - and because of the whole WBA/WBO mess where you can't simultaneously hold both belts (unless you're a "Super" WBA champ like Hopkins), that's as true of a heavyweight champion as we've had since Lewis.

Like a previous poster said, Vitali needs to be a defending champion against top contenders. Carefully choosing ranked fatasses who don't move and fighting them once per year is not endearing him to the non-nuthugging boxing fan...

[neils7147933]

This is great , good job vdiary on reporting this. Will this be a PPV? or HBO/Showtime?

There's no way this isn't PPV.


Here's the lineup of the card:

Hasim Rahman vs. Monte Barrett, WBC Interim Heavyweight Title
James Toney vs Chris Byrd, WBA, IBF, IBA Heavyweight Title
Javier Castillejo vs. Ricardo Mayorga, WBC Light Middleweight Title
Luis Collazo vs. TBA, WBA Welterweight Title
Luis Alberto Perez vs. Gerson Guerrero, IBF Super Flyweight Title

Looks like a 50 dollar job to me...

[fight fan]

Byrd has a height advantage but i never been a fan of Chris Byrd.The guy is scare to slug it out.I think Toney will win this fight.

Like him or not! Chris Byrd hasn't shown me any sign of fear! He slugs it out all the time! He slugged it out with McCline and he fought Golota at close quarters for most of their fight. He has been in the ring with Tua as well. The only fighter he did not fight was Lewis because he never got a shot at him. Of all the criticism I can give scared would not be one of them describing Chris Byrd.

[Floydmayweather]

Toney will ko Byrd his punches will do nothing to Toney and Toney will not respect him. He will get in close and use his counterpunching to wear byrd down, by round 9 or 10 he will knock him out.