Not being biased but I thought that fight was very close! In fact many had tua winning! A classic though, absolute slugfest.
If I remember right I think one judge had it 117-111 for Ike! Now that's BS right there. Credit for the byrd win but that was just a case of byrd being over confident and getting a reality check. Byrd beat tua in a defensive masterclass, ike sacrificed his health to get that win! The dude is clearly insane and a pretty disgusting individual though so i feel no sense of 'what if's' or empathy for the man at all!
Personally i think people ascribe qualites to Ike that are just not proven by wins over Tua and Byrd, both of whom were terrific and accomplished, but also small and beatable heavies.
Ike Ibeabuchi is like what Andrew Golota would have been had he just stopped fighting right after the Riddick Bowe matches. Every Internet forum junkie would have been screaming, Lewis is lucky Golota wasn't around, he would have fucked him up. But since Lewis blew apart Golota that point died. Well that is the case with Ibeabuchi, his career ended on a high note and these idiots assume that means he would have ripped apart Lewis, hell some believe he could get out of jail today, fight the Klitschko's tomorrow and would be the new Heavyweight champion LOL.
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