Chris Byrd. Life story

Unfortunately, in the boxing cohort, it is extremely rare to meet truly original fighters. But still there are those now, and also were before. And one of these nuggets is the American Chris Byrd. His life should be considered in more detail.

The birth of the future champion

Chris Byrd was born on August 15, 1970. In his family he was the eighth child. The boy's father was the owner of his own boxing school, in which Chris started his brilliant sports career. I want to say that the young man loved boxing with all his heart. At the age of 10, he began actively touring amateur competitions. By the way, the amateur ring brought the fighter 275 victories.

Three times he won the US Championship, won the Canadian Cup. In 1992, as a member of the Olympic team of his country, he won a silver medal at the Olympics-92, losing to Arian Hernandez in the final fight.

Transition to professional sports

The first battle in the professional Chris Byrd Held on January 28, 1993, defeating Harry Smith. The fight was held in the super middleweight category. It is noteworthy that Chris's coach throughout his career was his father - Joe Byrd. The very same fighter and to this day believes that his success in his career, he also owes two promoters: Dave La Sage and Greg Kebke. They organized the majority of his first matches, in which he has never failed. Among the defeated boxers there are such titans of the world boxing as: Vitali Klitschko, David Tua, Evander Hollyfield and many others. Thanks to his persistence and talent, Byrd was the IBF and WBO world champion. Defended his title from Pole Andrzej Golota and Puerto Rican Fres Oquendo. The most difficult defeat Chris Byrd received from Vladimir Klitschko and Ike Ibeabuchi. The last nugget from Michigan lost by technical knockout in the fifth round. It happened in March 1999. This defeat was the first in Byrd's career.

But the most insulting loss in Chris happened in May 2008. The battle took place at light heavyweight, for which Byrd had to drive as many as twenty kilograms of his own weight. The opponent in the ring was Sean George. Unfortunately, in the 9th round, after a series of punches, the fight was stopped by the referee, as he felt that Byrd was unable to continue the fight.

Today's Day

His performances in the square of the ring Chris Bird, whose photo circled all the world's leading print media, completed more than six years ago. However, this does not mean that he was on the sidelines of world sports. Time has shown that the American turned out to be a very sensible trainer, moreover, in addition to everything he runs his own channel on the Youtube resource, where he is engaged in the analysis of modern boxing. In 2014, Chris becomes coach of Shannon Briggs, an odious fighter who is the ex-world champion and current persecutor of the Ukrainian tyrant of heavyweight Vladimir Klichko. Note that such cooperation can be very fruitful, since Bird Chris knows first hand about all the features of the battle by the current champion. The former pro-box star conducts her free time with her family.