James Toney's Best Performance

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yea it was a great fight, beautiful counter punching by toney, it was before he became a fatass

 

Surely not? Why would Barkley be a favourite over Toney :huh

 

There is no way on god's Earth that Toney went into that fight as an underdog. :verysad

 

The Holyfield win impressed me because I thought Evander would have enough left to beat Toney moving up to heavy for the first time. He really beat Holyfield down more than anyone has save Riddick Bowe.

 

I think his perfomance against Holyfield IMO...He looked very sharp and looked like a contender in the HW division...He was ripping Holyfield with laser counters...He busted up Holy pretty bad.

 

To me his fights with Nunn and McCallum (first fight) were the most impressive because there were massive skills and talent on the side of the fence in those fights and Toney really had to dig deep and show what he was made of. The Barkley fight was a beautiful showcase, but Barkley was tailor-made for JT's style. In the Jirov fight he had to dig deep too amd it was a beautiful win, but that was also an easier style match-up for him than McCallum and Nunn were.

 

Nunn was an undefeated fighter towards the top of the P4P list at that time so that win would be his best for me. Being a guy who grew up back then, Nunn and Mccallum were both very respected back then a 2 of the best Middleweights of that time.

1. Michael Nunn
2. Mike Mccallum (the 1st fight)
3. Vasily Jirov (the best fight of this bunch!)
4. Evander Holyfield

The Barkley win was nice but Iran was well past it, I like the win against Prince Charles Williams also..

 

I'd have to say the Jirov fight and then the Nunn fight. One and two. Against Jirov, he was a slight underdog. Against Nunn, definitely. In both fights, he had to dig deep. The first kd in the Nunn fight was a thing of beauty! However, in terms of sheer drama, I've got to go with the Jirov fight. People forget that Jirov was blasting Toney to the body the entire fight and hurtin' him throughout. How Toney mustered the energy for that 12th round kd locked that fight, in my eyes, as the best for me.

 

to start with, james toney is a proven banned anabolic steroid taking disgrace, his achievements should be scrubbed from the records books :deal


WTF is it about americans and their delusional double standards? :nut

toney has one great win when he beat micheal nunn, despite toney getting his head boxed off for 10 rounds and being way behind on all 3 judges score cards.

lets look at toneys career further

a draw against 24-11 sanderline williams - sensational performance

fortunate split decisions over dave tiberi and reggie johnson

2 defeats at the hands of midget montell griffin

jirov is a ****in eurobum for ****sake, theres nothing funnier than you guys hyping up a eurobum when it suits you

beating barkley - whoopiedoo, beating barkley after duran had beat him at middleweight and after nigel benn had completely demolished barkley in one round

beating a senile, deluded holyfield - don't even get me started on that, we saw toneys real class at heavyweight when he got his ass kicked twice off of the mighty samuel peter


seriously, you guys need to lay off your delusional hyping of the likes of toney, hopkins, and jones, they've all had their asses kicked on numerous occasions and 2 of them are proven banned anabolic steroid taking disgraces anyway :deal

 

Well, Toney was a slight underdog against Barkley because many 'experts' thought that Barkley would just be too big and strong for Toney. How they were wrong...

 

Iran Barkley was Toneys best performance, hands down. Toney made it look so easy you'd have thought the whole fight was scripted. VERY one-sided, Toney really had a field day there. He looked so relaxed leaning against the ropes and countering Barkley you'd think he was standing at a bar counter. But it was far from Toneys best win - Barkley was a good fighter, better than his record indicates, but his style was tailor made for Toney.

On a personal note, I like Toneys performance against Prince Charles Williams (vintage Toney there again), I'd put it second after the Barkley performance.

Toneys best win is still Michael Nunn. Nunn was the #2 P4P fighter in the world at the time and undefeated, Toney was a prospect and still green, he was considered one-dimensional and he was a 10-1 underdog if I remember correctly. He was chosen as an optional defence for Nunn to make Nunn look good before his hometown crowd of Davenport. Toney proved what he was made of in that fight, not only the skills, but also the toughness - he turned the tables on Nunn after getting outboxed for 7 rounds, won rounds 8, 9 and 10 and brutally KOed Nunn in the 11th. Toney showed he could adapt his gameplan and come forward aggressively in that fight.

His wins over McCallum and Jirov come close behind.

Toneys win over Holyfield was a great win and a great performance as well. Of course Holyfield was past his best, but he was still considered a top 5 HW by most and Toney totally dominated him and stopped him - in a way nobody has ever done it before and after that fight (not even Riddick Bowe or Lewis).

 

all of them, id hafta say at thier respective weight classes, and holyfield wasnt overrated at the time, noone was callin him shot at that point and he got ko'd'

too bad a jones-toney rematch never happened, still would like to see toney-hopkins

 

I also like Toneys performance in the first Samuel Peter fight (tho he got robbed). He proved he had the skills, chin and toughness to hang in there with the real big boys.