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Robert Brizel Editorial: New Look Chris Byrd on Road to Middleweight Marijuana Paradise
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
*Photo Credit: Chris Byrd and Marc Abrams
Former International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization World Heavyweight champion Chris ‘Rapid Fire’ Byrd is back at age 50 as a middleweight!
The southpaw Byrd, 41-5-1 with 22 knockouts, Las Vegas, Nevada, moved up from middleweight to heavyweight to make the big money, and paid severe crisis for it in the long run.
Today Byrd weighs in at 163 pounds super middleweight. Byrd fought at 169 to 222 pounds from 1993 to 2009, fighting his last two bouts at light heavyweight and cruiserweight, where he fought and won his final bout by knockout in Stuttgart, Germany at 194 pounds.
A plant-based diet, and juicing fresh cannabis leaves, while eating hemp hearts as proteins and essential amino acids, combined with a disciplined diet and rigorous workouts, have lead Byrd to a remarkable road to top health and an excellent recovery. Pain and illness gave way to a complete physical recovery for Byrd, along with enhanced radio and sound frequency treatments to treat and heal his neuropathy.
More recently, the medicinal benefits of marijuana have led to increased acceptance in both the medical community and the legal community, as more and more states and foreign countries allow marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes.
While this reporter does not necessarily advocate smoking marijuana, drinking the cannabis protein shake, and eating hemp heart salads with CBD oil, Byrd is a boxing pioneer of a different framework. During the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus period now underway, boxers, athletes and ex-athletes are returning to their own creativity to maintain workouts and emotional focus. If Byrd’s physical and emotional recovery is seen in a positive light, it could pave the way for marijuana applications to gain great acceptance in physical conditioning, bodybuilding, and amateur and professional athletic circles. The long-range implications of athletes like Byrd claiming medical miracles and benefits from eating and drinking pot remain to be seen. Nonetheless, marijuana is now a legally accepted industry, and Byrd’s uses for different types of cannabis would have seemed wild and far fetched a couple of years ago. Nobody is laughing now. Is medical marijuana an established benefit for professional boxers and the boxing establishment in the near future? It might be, given Byrd’s dramatic turnaround to better health.
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