Chris Byrd vs Joe Calzaghe, any footage?

[welshwales]

well there is quite a size difference, tho not sure how much it was back then

Joe started his amateur career as a jr welter I believe. He went on to win 2 ABA titles at jr welter, welter and light middle or possibly middle???

[Gregster]

Joe started his amateur career as a jr welter I believe. He went on to win 2 ABA titles at jr welter, welter and light middle or possibly middle???

He won four British schoolboy titles, starting at 132lbs. He won an international junior tournament in Italy, a multi-nations junior tournament in Denmark, robbed against a Romanian in Romania (at junior european's), I'm sure he won a couple of junior ABA titles at 16-17 years old at 139 and then won three senior ABA titles three years in a row at three different weights (147, 156, 165 - 91, 92, 93). He was screwed out of the Barcelona Olympics due to politics.

[MetalVomit]

Hang on a minute, wasn't Todd Foster a Lightweight?? So Chris Byrd must of been a Lightweight at 18 years old, but then a Heavyweight five years later I smell chemicals. That's almost as dodgy as Roy Jones winning the 1984 National Junior Olympics at Bantumweight (at 16-17 years old) and later becoming Heavyweight Champion of the World.

what up JuyJuy?


i never knew byrd faught Calzaghe

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

I just got a message back from chris saying he never fought Joe Calzaghe as an amateur

ICE

[Verstyle]

these guys sure do jump weight classes quick. byrd should have stayed down.

[RoboHobo]

I just got a message back from chris saying he never fought Joe Calzaghe as an amateur

ICE

haha so who came up with this bull**** thread, ah the threadstarter