Filed under: Boxing | Tags: Golden Boy's Richard Schaefer, Nate Campbell
By Nate Campbell:
I just read an interview where you asked the question “is Nate Campbell only good at giving interviews, or is he willing to fight somebody the caliber of Marquez?” You should really think before you open your fat mouth. Who the hell are you to question my heart as a fighter? See, if you were actually a boxing guy, and not just some suit that by chance happened to marry someone in Oscar’s family, then you’d have sense enough not to say something like that about a fighter. Especially about a World Champion. But you just don’t know any better.
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By Brown:
If anyone saw the 4/18/08 episode of Friday Night Fights on ESPN, you may have been as shocked as I was to see the new and improved, light heavyweight version of Chris Byrd. During your double take of him, some may have asked how he got to this point. Well, after losing two of his last three fights by TKO, it seemed as though Byrd’s impressive boxing career was coming to an end. According to Byrd, he realized at 37 that his time was up at Heavyweight. Acknowledging today’s heavyweights were younger, bigger and becoming much too stronger for his blown up frame to engage with, he decided to exit the division. Lets look back.
Chris Byrd came up in the early 90’s earning his stripes at heavyweight by using his tremendous speed, craftiness and boxing ability to keep his bigger opponents off balance. Along his rise up the ranks, Chris only came up short against two much bigger opponents in Ike Ibeabuchi in 1999 and Wladimir Klitchko in 2000. After those setbacks, Byrd went on to defeat top ranked heavyweight contender David Tua and later defeated Evander Holyfield for the vacant IBF heavyweight belt. His first successful defense was against Fres Oquendo in a fight that was actually closer than what the judges scorecards read. His next two defenses came against Andrew Golata and Jameel McCline.
