Amateur: Calzaghe Vs. Byrd

[Rahman]

Joe didn't want to be trained by Team GB trainers and so he didn't go to the Olympics, he wanted his dad to train him because he thought Team GB trainers would try to change his punching technique. So they sent Robin Reid instead because they wouldn't allow Enzo to be Joe's trainer for the Olympics.

The Calzaghe's were pissed, and decided to represent Sardinia instead of Great Britain at a dual meet where Joe met Chris Byrd. Byrd had had 300+ amateur bouts and had never been stopped, Calzaghe was the first to stop him (and it was Byrd's last ever amateur bout). Apparently Joe was losing the fight until catching up with Byrd right at the end and getting the stoppage in the last few seconds!

I guess that you are a Byrd fan and that is cool with me - just to correct you Byrd had like 275 fights and was loosing only about 25 fights - one of them was a USA vs. Italy/GB fight against Calzaghe, when he was stopped.

Wow that they fight to eachother in old time . . . Hey was Byrd and Cal still teenager or what ? ? ?

[WWatt]

Calzaghe was 21.

[WWatt]

what calzaghe stopped byrd. Oh my god joe should have come to the states a long time ago he would have made such a huge name in boxing and a ton of money. now his career is always going to be debated with "what might have been"

Calzaghe would of probably fast become a star in America and probably could of retired by 2000.