as a boxing fan would you want to see james toney fight kimbo? kimbo is learning mma and might stand up with jt but i think it would be a good debut fight for toney
He would get his ass handed to him. Toney Im sure would have decent striking skills, but he has zero experience grappling, he is overweight, and his legs are slow. He cant wrestle, no ground and pound, he doesnt know submissions, cant do takedowns. I think he would end up getting embarassed Plus what weight class would he fight in? He would be pathetically small for a HW At LHW he would get taken apart, everyone would be faster and stronger and more athletic than him
thats why i say kimbo....the fight would sell and kimbo is still very green and he would prob try and prove something and stand up with jt i think it would be a good fight he wants to do it so might as well do it with a guy thats not that good and has a big name
You may have a valid point. Ray Mercer KO'd Tim Silvia. You never know with the quality of the chin of MMA fighters.
forget Kimbo, cuz once he whoops Kimbo the MMA faithful are gonna say "oh who cares Kimbo was just a street fighter" I wanna see JT against a real MMA guy.
u need to work ur way into it why just throw him in there with the best and e never been kicked or taken down a day in his life
Not surprised. Anyone with no hope in boxing immediately goes there and dominates after two fights. Isn't their main champion a WWE and NFL reject?
I think your showing a bit much respect to these MMA guys. All JT has to do is work on wrestling and all of that ground work stuff for half a year and he, at 41, is probably the best fighter in the MMA
Massive respect for Toney, thought I normally dislike the guy. He has the balls to defend boxing and actually put his money where his mouth is. I hope he wins to spite Dana.
Toney wouldn't last a round with any fighter that is qualified to fight in the UFC. Even bums like Kimbo and Houston Alexander would immediately take him down.
what you guys are underestimating is the speed of a punch......Toney isn't as fast as he's ever been but I can pretty much garauntee he's got the fastest and heaviest hands of anybody fighting in his division. Now what I was going to say is that a punch is faster than a kick, a punch is faster than a knee, or an elbow, or an armbar, or whatever. I can garauntee you the mma guys will tell you the same. Toney is as skilled a counterpuncher as boxing has seen, he can counter with both hands to the body and to the head and he has power. In MMA he just has more countering opportunities. A guy lunges in for the takedown, COUNTER. A guy goes for a leg kick, COUNTER. A guy tries one of those stupid turning elbows, COUNTER. I like him against any of these MMA guys, in fact I'd really love to see him fight Brock Lesnar....that would be a sad day for a lot of MMA fans lol.
