Season 4: #29 Chris Byrd

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Former world heavyweight champion Chris Byrd won a silver at the 1992 Olympics and thought it would be his springboard to fame and fortune. It wasn't. Unable to get marquee deals or fights, he thought his best option was to balloon from middleweight to heavyweight to get his career going, so he ate anything and everything he wanted and found himself in the ring with the giants of his era, including the Klitschko brothers, David Tua, Ike Ibeabuchi, Evander Holyfield, Jameel McCline and many others. Chris talks about facing the odds, about his hardships, the chronic pain he suffered with post-boxing that left him contemplating suicide, opponents using PEDs and, of course, the big nights and big fights in a powerful Boxing Life Story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody prime. I almost like Mike Tyson prime that pit bull coming at you. Oh, let me see if you can really hit me
0:07.9	You know if you can hit me and take me out and if you can more power to him
0:12.2	He's a he's a great fighter. He called me a great fighter, but if you can't oh, I'm gonna have a lot of fun
0:20.7	I couldn't I couldn't feel a arena up in my own hometown and the arena is only 5,000 seats
0:30.4	Wow
0:32.0	Like really never now box in town
0:37.4	So what's your next stop? What's the move? Yeah, what's your next move? You you win anyway town
0:44.0	But now you got your headways look at you like okay, yes
0:49.4	Come on little man
0:51.4	Hello, and welcome to box in life stories with me
0:54.4	Christix what happened in the ring after
0:56.8	Tyson only good was his child's play compared to that. Still a cool song to this day
1:03.4	Just you couldn't take the tears for his eyes or the smile for space, couldn't you I know
1:11.5	And the baby didn't make me look like Al Capone
1:13.6	This is gonna be your night. There's a winning and there's
1:17.8	nothing else
1:19.2	Welcome back to box in life stories, and I'm thrilled to say my guest this week is former world heavyweight champion Chris
1:24.8	Bird I've been trying to get Chris on this podcast for months and months and we've kept missing one another
1:31.1	But finally I've got him and it's an absolute belter
1:34.5	And as good as I thought Chris was I was overwhelmed with sadness at parts listening to several parts of his journey
1:40.8	It's one of the most extraordinary life stories
1:43.1	I've had on this podcast about middleweight who gorged himself to make
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