1)welcome! 2)Senna is a ****ing saint. I have immense respect for the man 3)Maybe cracks top 5 wins. Nunn, McCalum, Jirov were all better
i don't know, nunn was near the top of the pound for pound list at the time and was considered the favourite going in. he was a superstar in the making holyfield was long past his best and was ranked in the top 20 heavyweights but nowhere near pound for pound.
Nunn had actually lost a lot of the cred he built up against Tate etc by the time he fought Toney, and with leaving the goosen's\taking on Dundee etc he was at a bit of a crossroads.another bad performance or two away from being the forgotten fighter he did become after losing to James. Not that it wasn't still a major upset of course.
Not got time to go into detail, so I'll leave it at one statement: Nunn was his best win, but if he had got the decision he deserved in the first McCallum fight, that could have rivalled the Nunn victory, given that the Bodysnatcher was still a very potent force at the time.
Toney was turning things in the Nunn fight but Nunn had an insurmountable lead and was 3 1/2 minutes from retaining his title against a one-eyed Toney, not to mention the decisions in the McCallum and Johnson fights were dubious. If one wants to see a remarkable performance by Toney, watch the Iran Barkley fight. He turns in a virtuoso performance in the art of counter-punching, not to mention his weight had not spiraled out of control. That was Toney at his best. Scartissue