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Caractacus wrote: ↑19 Oct 2020, 14:48 C'mon can you really count the fight with Vitali as a "win" ?
Didn't Vitali tear his left rotator cup in the 3rd round,
yet he still went 6 more rounds trying to fight in excruciating pain?
btw how did you score the rounds after round 3 ?

Didn’t Vitali win like most rounds?

At the time of stoppage he was ahead.

89-82 | 88-83 | 88-83

what was annoying about that fight (IMOP) anyway was the two continually tapping their lead hands together like
patty-cake.
Maybe Vitali should have kept his left hand in close and then just jab in-between Chris Byrd's tapping motions (?)
He didn't have to coperate with Chris Byrd's methods.

It was a horrible fight. Was literally laughing at it at the time. At times it looked like they each were trying to hit each other's gloves. The scoring was ridiculous; I had Byrd up by a point. No way he should have been down 5-7 points.
Holyfield was way past it by the time Byrd beat him.
The Tua fight was probably his best win. Byrd performed well and was fighting a live opponent.

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑22 Oct 2020, 09:20 It was a horrible fight. Was literally laughing at it at the time. At times it looked like they each were trying to hit each other's gloves. The scoring was ridiculous; I had Byrd up by a point. No way he should have been down 5-7 points.

Klitschko was winning 89-82 when the injury happened so I don't think we can count that has Byrd's best win.

Tua is definitely his best win. Tua was an underrated boxer, IMO. Only losses in his prime were to Ibeabuchi, Lennox Lewis and Byrd.

mcrow42 wrote: ↑22 Oct 2020, 11:48 Tua is definitely his best win. Tua was an underrated boxer, IMO. Only losses in his prime were to Ibeabuchi, Lennox Lewis and Byrd.

I'd also name his second Rahman fight as a loss.

IDK, probably was a Rahman win but I've seen worse score cards than that. Rahman was probably winning the first fight to before the KO.

mcrow42 wrote: ↑22 Oct 2020, 11:57 IDK, probably was a Rahman win but I've seen worse score cards than that. Rahman was probably winning the first fight to before the KO.

It's was a quite frequent case with Tua, when he was losing on points, but then pulled out a KO victory. I had Izon, Maskaev and Oquendo winning prior to being stopped as well. Tua was always dangerous.

Yup, probably one of the biggest punchers ever in the HWT division. If he had a little more boxing skills he'd have had a chance to be a world champ.

mcrow42 wrote: ↑22 Oct 2020, 12:31 Yup, probably one of the biggest punchers ever in the HWT division. If he had a little more boxing skills he'd have had a chance to be a world champ.

With the situation of the early-mid 2000s he could have been a champ in a case of better matching too. He pretty much could KO Ruiz again. He had a big opportunity to doing the same with the likes of Brewster, Liakhovich, Ibragimov, etc.

Oh...certainly. That wasn't a strong era for HWT by any means. But man, if he could box and not rely on bombs so much he may have been a legit, deserving champion.

His power held late, overall it's overrated. Very poor technically.

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 06:58 His power held late, overall it's overrated. Very poor technically.

Who you talking about? Byrd?

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 07:06

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 06:58 His power held late, overall it's overrated. Very poor technically.

Who you talking about? Byrd?

Tua

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 07:08

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 07:06

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 06:58 His power held late, overall it's overrated. Very poor technically.

Who you talking about? Byrd?

Tua

Tua.. What could have been..

It's not like he's one of the best HW's not to win a world title.. He was just never meant to.

Like you said, he was poor technically.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 07:09

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 07:08

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 07:06

Who you talking about? Byrd?

Tua

Tua.. What could have been..

It's not like he's one of the best HW's not to win a world title.. He was just never meant to.

Like you said, he was poor technically.

He obviously could have snagged a strap at the right time, just not accurate that he was one of the biggest punchers ever.