Controversial wrote:Oh dear. So by suggesting Lewis avoided Byrd you must think Byrd would have won, or what point are your trying to make. Because Byrd was avoided by everyone, no one wanted a piece of Byrd (hahahah) What you don't seem to realise is boxing is a lot about marketing and money making. Lewis vs Byrd wouldn't have generated much money as most people outside the boxing world wouldnt know Byrd if they bumped into him. A pointless fight for Lewis and one he would have won anyway. Lewis wanted the big names and the big money. Who can blame him for that?
1/10 for effort. Must try harder.
- The points that I make can be found on the point on the top of your noggin formed from years of wearing the dunce cap.
Your summary of the glass jaw comment is the synopsis of a prodigious school thought regarding Lewis going into the Tyson bout. While Lewis was favored because of the considerable longterm decline of Tyson, huge money was put on the early Tyson KO of Lewis. I included the overranking of Lewis AFTER the bout as a point of extreme references of the ridiculous manner you and your ilk are prone to go in ranking your favorite boys. The idiocy or the disingenuity is yours my little race baiting friend.
Byrd had much more experience with Jameel McCline being his best friend and sparmate against a Vitali type on short notice than Vitali did against the Byrd type which is beyond duplication, but again, yet another example of you not being bright enough to understand basic boxing.
It really don't matter who anyone thinks would win a Byrd/Lewis fight, it's a fact that Byrd got near or at the top of the Ring rankings at one point, became Lewis' mandatory, and Lewis sold his belt to King, taking step aside money rather than fight Byrd. Lewis never fought any of the premiere southpaw challengers of his era, Byrd, Sanders, Moorer, and Oquendo, not even a journeyman southpaw. Looks like he was carefully matched away given the evidence.
Lewis gave up his IBF belt for the disaster that turned out to be the Kirk Johnson bout, a much smaller venue and bout against a lesser ranked contender, so this nonsense about bigger names and bigger money is just you making up your little porkies like some school boy winging his way through his term paper in hopes he can squeeze out a D- to squeeze out a passing grade.
This can be seen in your Rahman/Lewis 1 summary where you blame bad condition for the Lewis loss, when in fact he was easily controlling a slow paced beatdown on Rahman who was looking like the intimidated sack of you against any bully. A near shutout until the single lucky punch, and Rahman did have a great right when he landed it. So you make up lies about stamina and training when those played no factor whatsoever in the fight because some other jughaid made up some nonsense that got spread around.
The comedy part is that you are fully grown and haven't advanced a single step beyond those porkie days of being picked at by teachers and school bullies, a big goof in bigger pants.
