James Toney vs Samuel Peter 1

Stiverne vs Arroela were good fights.

 

Eye On The Ring. Website for fan cards and controversy rating appears to be shut down

 

I remember having it 115-112.

It was this fight that convinced me that James Toney is one of the toughest guys to ever lace em up. This was a few months after he suffered a lacerated kidney against Hasim Rahman.

Toney took some hard shots from a huge heavy handed heavyweight. He was hurt a couple times from shots high on the head that seemed to mess with his equilibrium. He later got hurt from a short punch on the inside (I think an uppercut) which caused him to hold, and Peter got a point deducted for clapping Toney’s ears. Toney took some really heavy body shots too.

I thought Toney did enough good work with his countering, as well as his jab, to win 7 rounds.

This was pretty much the end of Toney as a world class fighter. He was already 38 and had so many pro rounds and god knows how much damage to his body he took in the gym, as well as the buffet table.

 

He was really sharp in the Rahman rematch a year or two later. I don’t think he looked good again after that.

 

Only dino can come into a thread about a totally different fighter just to make it about Wlad..................

 

You know last time I scored it I thought Toney won pretty wide but let me rescore it since its always fun scoring Toney fights:

James Toney vs Sam Peter

Round 1 10-9 Toney

Round 2 10-9 Toney

Round 3 10-9 Peter

Round 4 10-9 Toney

Round 5 10-9 Peter

Round 6 10-9 Toney

Round 7 10-9 Toney

Round 8 10-9 Peter

Round 9 10-8 Toney

Round 10 10-9 Peter

Round 11 10-9 Toney

Round 12 10-9 Toney

Toney 116-111
Here's how I scored it even though I had it 8-4 Toney lot of close rounds but I just preferred Toney clean shots to Peter swinging and missing more but occasionally landing the harder shots but still a good fight and impressive performance from Toney taking on a hard hitting heavyweight like Peter and giving him a tough fight.

 

he was robbed of a TKO win over Rahman, who plainly quit, which would've been a heckuva feather in Toney's cap.

tbf, Rahman was robbed of a W in their 1st fight IMO.

 

Wonder how Roy Jones Jnr would do? Toney was something special huh? A real fighters fighter.

 

Toney Won

 

I don't know. How would Dave Tiberi do? Cuz he sure beat the cover off of James.

 

Probably about as good as Roy did with “Sugar” Tarver… can you think of another former 160lber who’d be able to beat Samuel Peter? A modern sized super athlete, Testament to his greatness that he had to he robbed, can’t think of any 160lbers I’d even favour to beat Jirov, Rahman or Vander Oldfiled Roy definitely losses to Jirov, Rahman and Peter’s in a couple rounds, man if only Toney beat the scales we’d be looking at a top tier P4Per. To quote the great Emmanuel “Toney was never convincingly beaten”

 

Peter knocks Jones out. Roy did not have the chin.

 

Ruiz was a much better heavyweight than Peter and Jones schooled him. Roy would win every round against Peter.

 

Roy got brutally knocked out by Tarver and Johnson. Peter would put him into the hospital.