...
Chris’s eyes were swelling shut by the third round; Papa still thinks there was some hanky-panky going on.“They played a lot of games with us,” he said.
“We came over there (Cologne) with the world champion and they put us in a hotel where I wouldn’t put my amateurs.
We had to eat at a whistlestop – what I call fast food.
Then they told us fight night we’d be on at 9:30 and at 10:30, after warming up and cooling down a few times, we were still in our dressing room.
“I was going to stop it, especially in the 11th round, I was walking up the steps, but Patrick (another son) pulled me back and said Chris had to go the distance.”
Chris Byrd said that it was “the worst night of my whole life – not just my career, my whole life.”
This time, though they will be in an 18-foot ring in Mannheim, Byrd is not looking to go the distance.
He is looking to win.
He’ll be 36 in August and there are no more big p...
Read more...