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Notebook: Byrd faces daunting odds

By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com

Friday, April 21, 2006

Heavyweight titlist Chris Byrd has already defied the odds so often, what's one more time? That's Byrd's attitude heading into his heavyweight title rematch with mandatory challenger Wladimir Klitschko (45-3, 40 KOs) in Manheim, Germany, on Saturday (HBO, live at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT, replayed at 10 p.m. ET/PT). Byrd (39-2-1, 20 KOs) is the underdog against Klitschko, and with good reason. Besides already having lost to Klitschko in 2000, Byrd will be fighting on Klitschko's turf, and German ...

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