james toney deserves respect

Who doesn't respect Toney?

 

:goodi do.to put on all that weight and still compete is amazing

 

ESB on the whole is not very friendly to James but there is an underlying respect. You can't deny the legacy he's put behind him.

 

He's got talent and heart no doubt.

He's also a tasteless,nasty,bullying,trash speaking,loud mouthed *****.

Unfortunately the latter cancels out the former for mine.

 

Campaigned from middleweight to heavyweight, 83 fights, 72 wins, never been knocked out...never been seriously hurt from what ive seen. Demands respect.

Will any real top class boxer ever fight 83 fights again?

 

He's an old timer and I seriously respect him. Would've held his own with the likes of Charles, Marciano and Walcott in the 50s such is his natural talent. Not great H2H at Heavy though and has inconsistent patches (his lightheavyweight tenure for instance) but when on his game he was truly sublime.

 

Looking back it was strange to see the fight with Johnson. Toney became known for having a real good chin, and he was hurt badly in that fight. That fight also showed how good of a fighter Reggie Johnson was. I had the fight razor close. I think Roy Jones fight against Johnson is vastly underated considering how good Johnson really was.
As far as Toney he gets mad respect from me. A true throw back type fighter. Just would have liked to see him stay in better shape, he would have done a lot more.

 

Agree with all of this.

 

A great fighter. He deserves respect. He could have been even better had he not been on a mission to eat his way towards 250 pounds.

He was a brilliant fighter in the early 90s, for sure.

I think James Toney's brilliance shows us how good Roy Jones Jr. was.

 

i guess that only for you because boxing is the subject here.

 

He fought everyone close except Roy Jones really, and fought some good solid fighters. He was right up there with all of them even though getting the loss on the majority of close fights.

 

He is/was a throwback in terms of style and ringcraft in that his game contained skill-based facets that have been largely forgotten these-days. Superb when on his game and one of the few modern fighters who could/would have hacked it in the old days, but limited nonetheless in the sense that particular styles would have always given him trouble ie good lateral movers and pure boxers. I think he would have struggled a bit with Graham, and lost clearly to someone like Kalambay. He also got the benefit of the doubt in a few controversial fights early in his career and was the benefactor of arguably the most heinous scoring crime in modern boxing.

A very good to great fighter, but an irritating twat in terms of his personality.