The biggest myth in boxing is that Vitali was dominating Byrd, or that he was somehow simply retiring from injury. It's a lie. Not only was Byrd outboxing Vitali, he was beginning to hurt him and wear him out —- which can be seen by Vitali's mouth breathing wide open and diminished punch output. He was about 240+ and 100% KO rate here, yet never scored a single knockdown or wobbling the diminutive Byrd. Byrd's old school skills and parrying and rolling were gone unseen by the ignorant commentators and media.
Byrd in comparison to Vitali was physically much smaller, including height and reach, however over came this with phenomenal head and lateral movement and really frustrated Vitali. This was best performance I've seen against Vitali except for Lennox Lewis. Vital still landed in this fight and i believe was winning but his power was deflected by Byrds tactics. Byrd was coming back into rhe fight but Vitali really did not show the heart of champion in retiring in this fight. Look at Vitali Vs Shannon briggs fight, despite a torn bicep muscle in the first round and the brutal beating Shannon Briggs took he did not just give up like Vitali.
I think a myth is the Klitschkos are so big and strong, no smaller guy could beat him. I saw this fight and ask me what happened if they fight PRIME Mike Tyson not Mike Tyson who fought Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield.
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vitali the goat heavyweight this guy basically never lose a round
The biggest myth in boxing is that Vitali was dominating Byrd, or that he was somehow simply retiring from injury. It's a lie. Not only was Byrd outboxing Vitali, he was beginning to hurt him and wear him out —- which can be seen by Vitali's mouth breathing wide open and diminished punch output. He was about 240+ and 100% KO rate here, yet never scored a single knockdown or wobbling the diminutive Byrd. Byrd's old school skills and parrying and rolling were gone unseen by the ignorant commentators and media.
There’s no way Vitali could ever get beaten by a white guy. 😮
He hit Bird too many times and hurt his hand and had to quit the fight? This was no KO!
Byrd in comparison to Vitali was physically much smaller, including height and reach, however over came this with phenomenal head and lateral movement and really frustrated Vitali. This was best performance I've seen against Vitali except for Lennox Lewis. Vital still landed in this fight and i believe was winning but his power was deflected by Byrds tactics. Byrd was coming back into rhe fight but Vitali really did not show the heart of champion in retiring in this fight. Look at Vitali Vs Shannon briggs fight, despite a torn bicep muscle in the first round and the brutal beating Shannon Briggs took he did not just give up like Vitali.
Byrd was keeping his head at vitali's thighs level! It's illegal and stupid!
It was like winning a lottery for byrd. Absolute luck.
Vitali and his bro were just roided giants who took advantage of their size advantage…
Виталий бросил 2 удара, 4 из которых..
Vitali was too slow for Chris:)
People take credit from the fact that bird was smaller than every great heavy weight he fought.
This was the Ali Foreman of my generation. A master class of defense and the sweet science by Chris Byrd
Can you people se
Why does everyone hate a good white boxer?
This was a bad decision from his corner, he broke his arm but he could have won if he just continued.
Iron Mike in his prime would have destroyed Vitali, this is the proof
I think a myth is the Klitschkos are so big and strong, no smaller guy could beat him.
I saw this fight and ask me what happened if they fight PRIME Mike Tyson not Mike Tyson who fought Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield.
I don't get it
So where’s the KO?