I need to know more about this guy, i know a fair bit but if you have any links, articles, thoughts or opinions then they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :good
Loads of his fights are on YT. Watch them, can't beat it. If you want to know a little about his personality, he seemed a pantomime villain who never ever broke character. He was funny as ****. Like every other mouthpiece he started to parody himself a little as his skills dropped off, when he was a badass you could believe that he believed his **** even if you didn't...when he dropped off it made you a little sad, like Mankind's lounge posts do now or the way your drunk uncle, now sober, somehow lets you down at Christmas because he's just going through the motions. A pure boxing character.
Really? Have you read Ring Magazine anytime in the last 20 years. Crack dealer from Ann Arbor, former football player, makes good. Comes out of nowhere to land a left hook on Mike Nunn. Proceeds with an under-achieving, tho Hall of Fame run, with an unforgivable performance against a Sunday School teacher and some guy named Drake. Gets a gift over an aged Mike McCallum in one of the two most boring fights ever fought. Becomes a prime investor in the Wendy's Corporation and fails to land a role as the Michelin Man, tho not for lack of effort. Has a run as a roided heavyweight which some gullible saps find a revelation. But let's remember the efforts against Nunn, Barkley, Williams, Jirov and Holyfield.
Totally..and its funny in a way yet also quite against the grain cool how the two leading people on his quest were two women. Cheers McG, been hooked on him since i read Darktrade...blew me well away....thats seeing past the bravado too as ya mentioned, as the book conveys. Some of the YT's are truly beaut, i think Mandy dropped one......basically a 3 minute lesson on inside fighting. Brains awash with it all for ages now. You may have noticed i have dropped the same thread (worlds will surely collide) in the General and Brit forums also..........am all up in this muvva !!! Cheers manny :good
the two McCallum fights meaning the first and second one? the 2nd one may have been boring but the first one was probably the most intriguing MW fight of the 90s
Nunn, Barkley and him playing with Danny Green a lot was pretty much all i knew before the book. He sold crack like peole sell weed here, no biggy..........shooters just a slasher. If i remember right he was pretty broken regarding the end of his yankball career.......injury ? Anyways, cheers
People know him now as the fat, possibly brain-damaged goof that sometimes pollutes the heavyweight division, but at one time he was a very good middlweight with a weight problem. Then he was a very very good supermiddleweight with an eating problem. And so on.
Great fighter willing to take on anyone but his "hunger" outside of the ring and undisciplined ways caught up to him. He was arguably the most aesthetically pleasing fighter to watch of recent times when he was on and arguably the best inside fighter of recent times too. He gets underrated now because so called "fans" now only think of the fat,shot one now and not the man of the Mccallum 1 & 2, Holyfield, Jirov, and when he ko'd Nunn. Him and DLH get underrated now but need to be considered great and not these cherrypickers of modern times. The second Mccallum fight wasn't as bad as people make it seems and if you're a true boxing fan it's impossible not to respect the skills of both men and if you're a purist you will watch the fight based on the high skill both men showed. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJMBGAUelG0[/ame]
I watched the first McCallum fight in 1991 yesterday and I thought Toney clearly won by two points. Should have been a win for him. I'm gonna watch the second fight between them tomorrow.
people make a big deal about Toney getting the decision in the 2nd fight but can't get it through their little brains that he deserved the nod in the first fight
James Toney is 3rd in my all time p4p list , a top 10 all time MW , his chin is #1 all time p4p . boxrec , youtube can tell you a lot about him , but you need , like in every case , to know the truth behind the boxrec record , sometimes boxrec itself does it 4u if u read carefully , sometimes it still doesn't , which is part of d reason 2 y u need d youtube . James Toney was truly a great fighter. D greatest of his generation at least.