CHRIS BYRD FRUSTRATED BY LEWIS COMMENTS; CALLS EXCUSES LAME

LEWIS DUCKS BYRD AGAIN; IBF CHAMP ASKS THE “SO-CALLED” KING OF THE RING—“LENNOX, WHY ARE YOU AFRAID TO FIGHT ME?”

13.06 - Press Release - . . . IBF Heavyweight Champion Chris Byrd is finally tired of it all. Tired of all the lame excuses Lennox Lewis gives for not fighting him. Lewis has never given a legitimate reason as to why he will not meet Byrd in the ring. And now as Lewis prepares to face late replacement Vitali Klitschko and there’s rumbling of calling out Roy Jones next, Byrd has one thing on his mind—WHY is Lennox Lewis AFRAID to fight me?”

First and foremost, Chris Byrd wants to fight the 6’5”, 250 pound Lewis. Byrd believes in boxing legacy and in order to reserve his spot, he knows Lewis is the only worthy opponent out there for him now. He wants to become undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.

Secondly, Byrd already beat Vitali Klitschko more than three years ago in April 2000. Byrd already offered his services to Lennox for the June 21 date but Lennox Lewis chose Klitschko. “I haven’t been seriously training lately but I think I can beat Lennox under any conditions,” said Byrd. “He knows it, Emmanuel Steward knows it and that’s all there is to it.”

Although Lennox claims to be a “pugilist specialist,” and able to beat anyone, he refuses to even mention Byrd’s name. But with Klitschko done in June and the end of his career nearing, Lewis should face Byrd and show the world that he is capable of defeating the much smaller Byrd. Boxing experts know that if Lennox Lewis could beat the gifted, technically-sound boxer, he would do more for his career than any other fight out there. Unless he faces Byrd—the only other heavyweight in the division with a belt and talent to back it up—Lennox will go down in heavyw

“It’s obvious he is bigger and physically stronger than me,” said the 6’1”, 210 pound Byrd. “But his heart and confidence can’t carry him in to the ring and that’s frightening.”

Byrd continues. “He has a lot of nerve calling out Roy Jones who is even smaller than me and is just a novelty to our heavyweight division. It’s an insult to my boxing pedigree that he would overlook the only true test he has in the division. He says he only interested in the best opposition in the twilight of his career. Lennox knows that if he goes up, down or around me, he hasn’t proven his greatness in boxing and his legacy will not exist.”

So as Lewis sits atop the WBA heavyweight thrown, choosing beatable opponents, and playing it safe and as securely as possible. “He can call himself king, emperor, Champ, whatever he wants,” said Byrd. “He just can’t beat me."