Light Punching/No Offence Heavyweights Make Me Sad

[El Kabong]

I thought the KO of Chris Byrd was pretty sad to watch although in the first fight it was like waiting for the inevitable.

He was the first to try and test out the "Well I'm just going to pressure Wlad until he's tired" strategy......didn't work out too well for him though.

I think his fight at light heavy was worse...but hey he made a bunch of money and had a very successful career. I rather liked Byrd, he had some fun fights to watch but not the Williamson fight......yeeeesh

[Beanflicker]

Feather fisted fighters - especially HW's - always fascinated me because it's such a huge disadvantage when a fighter has no respect for your power and you don't have the pop to keep him honest. The feather fisted guys always had to be that much more slick and that much more skilled to stay above water.

I'm not talking about guys like Pernell Whitaker and Mayweather, who, althought they weren't one-punch KO guys by any stretch, at least had enough power to hurt guys and keep them from charging in face first. Mayweather has enough power to make guys think before coming in, which is a big key to his style.

Guys like Malignaggi and Byrd though couldn't bust a grape. I liked Byrd especially, because he was this blown up middleweight who was taking on pure beasts like Tua, Klitschkos, Ibeabuchi, ect ect. I think young boxers can learn a lot from Byrd, because to me he displayed the Sweet Science extremely well and was very underrated IMO.

That to me is still one of the most interesting things about boxing: in front of a guy who can literally kill you with his bare hands, how do you not only avoid getting incapacitated but also do more damage to him than he does to you? Chris was very good at that.

[ninjaspy3]

Feather fisted fighters - especially HW's - always fascinated me because it's such a huge disadvantage when a fighter has no respect for your power and you don't have the pop to keep him honest. The feather fisted guys always had to be that much more slick and that much more skilled to stay above water.

I'm not talking about guys like Pernell Whitaker and Mayweather, who, althought they weren't one-punch KO guys by any stretch, at least had enough power to hurt guys and keep them from charging in face first. Mayweather has enough power to make guys think before coming in, which is a big key to his style.

Guys like Malignaggi and Byrd though couldn't bust a grape. I liked Byrd especially, because he was this blown up middleweight who was taking on pure beasts like Tua, Klitschkos, Ibeabuchi, ect ect. I think young boxers can learn a lot from Byrd, because to me he displayed the Sweet Science extremely well and was very underrated IMO.

That to me is still one of the most interesting things about boxing: in front of a guy who can literally kill you with his bare hands, how do you not only avoid getting incapacitated but also do more damage to him than he does to you? Chris was very good at that.

Byrd is definitely the best of the light punching heavy weights.
Who is the most disappointing: "Fast" Eddie with his sometimes lacking work rate? or maybe Kevin Johnson with his being unwilling to use more than 1 hand or resorting almost to only defense with horrible work rate?

When I think about it that way, Malik Scott almost looks good. But then again, Chisora was his biggest test.

[Beanflicker]

When you got a guy like that with no workrate its awful. At least Malignaggi and Byrd stayed busy.