James Toney: A Critical Analysis

I'm not sure, i was too young back then. I know there was talk of him fighting Benn and Eubank back in the early 90's. You've probably already seen it but this video always makes me laugh:

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As for what would have happened, it's difficult to be certain because of Toney's inconsistency but i think he could have beaten all of them. At his best, i think he stops Benn and Jackson, gets a late stoppage over McClellan, wins clear decisions over Eubank and Collins and gets a close decision over Hopkins. I'm a big fan of his though, so i'm probably a bit biased.

 

Fat?

 

Julian Jackson has always been a mystery to me as well..would have been a great fight!...All those guys went to war!:hop:hop:hop:cannabis:cannabis:cannabis

 

Nice!!!!!..:thumbsup

 

i just watched this round table thing and eubank said it was suicide to fight Toney and Roy Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBw_q1rCa40

 

Hopkins and Toney were going to fight in 2003 (I think), but Hopkins fought De la Hoya instead (according to Toney).

 

Is Toney an ATG? I don't see that too clear, but he is close. He looked so flat against Jones in his most important fight. HOF he will probably make, but it matters who else is up for election that year.

 

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There's few fighters so utterly bad for Julian Jackson as Toney is. Keen eye, hell of a chin, counters well.

 

He also fought Iran the Blade Barkley who still had a lot left, stopped Light heavyweight champion Prince Charles Williams and Roy Jones Jnr.

None of Collins, Eubank or Benn particularly wanted to get in there with him because theywould certainly have lost and brutally. For some reason he actually hated the English and British. I know Collins is Irish but the distinction won't have bothered Toney.

Julian Jackson had been eliminated by Toney's mate Gerald McClellan. Toney and McClellan would have fought had the tragedy not occurred. Hell they had sparred enough times and their is footage of it. Toney always felt that as good as the G-Man was he was much better. Emmanuel Steward Gerald McClellan former trainer and manager said he was such a big fan of Toney that it became a problem between him and Gerald.

Toney hates Hopkins with a passion and felt he only came out of his shell at Middleweight after he, Roy Jones, Mclellan, Nunn, McCallum left the middleweight division and fought a lot of bums. I am not saying that is correct either just saying what Toney feels.

We must never forget he won the Cruiserweight world title against best Cruiserweight in the world Jirov, knocked out Evander Holyfield, went the distance twice with Sam Peters former heavyweight world champion and defeated Johnny Ruiz for heavyweight championship of the world.