***The Top 50 Wins Of The Decade, 1990-1999***

50.James Toney RTD9 Iran Barkley / Super-Middleweight / 1993
Quality of Opponent: C+
Quality of Performance: A+
What makes it a great win: This display is up there with Whitaker-McGirt II, McGirt-Brown and Jones-Toney as one of the finest all-round boxing clinics of the decade. As is often forgotten now, Barkley was the pre-fight favourite. He had recently beaten Thomas Hearns again, and was perceived as a bigger, stronger, rougher competitor than the younger Toney. The Blade attempted to stamp his authority from the first bell, rushing out and swinging for the fences. Toney met him in centre ring, used his superior accuracy and defence to outland him in the opening exchanges, and basically won every minute of every round until the slaughter was halted in the 9th.
The cynic would say: Barkley was a mediocrity by this point.



1) seriously, what a stinking start to fragile popkins post

love how you build barkley up when in reality he had lost to a 37 year old duran at middleweight and then got his ass caved in off nigel benn after 1 round. typical bias bull**** from you, drug riddled toney picked apart a corpse

2) if you had anything about you as a poster, all proven banned anabolic steroid users would be banned from this list :deal

3) how conveniant of you to leave out benns victory over mcclellan, making out that you have some kind of morals when you constantly make fun of handicapped people as a source of humour on here :dead

benns victory over mccllelan is a bonafide top 5 performance of the 90s with eubanks victory over watson a top 15 :deal

surprise surprise, you have mccallum in there for beating watson

i guarantee that if anabolic steroid disgrace toney, jones or hopkins had beat mcclellan then it would be high up on your incredibly bias list.

your posts suck ass :yep

you are nothing more than a ring magazine / hbo puppett suckin ass trying to win friends american friends :deal




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Good thread some good bouts!
But wheres the mention:-

Kevin Kelly vs Naz
Calzaghe vs Eubank

These two are a lot stronger than some of your pics on the list...

 

i enjoyed reading that. its made me think about fights ive not thought of for ages. well done, a really great read.

 

that's a dang shame. i would have included the last two fights

 

No...no, they are not.

 

Good list, must have taken a long time to compile. I would have thought Benn v McLellan would have been in there (personally that would be top 10 for me).

 

What about McCallum's rematch with kalambya.Both were past their prime and i thought it was a could have gone either way kind of fight, but it was of an extremely high quality and worth mention somewhere.

 

Why? Just because some crooked judges said it was a draw? The 2nd fight wasn't even that good of a performance from Lennox.

 

DEDICATION, I like it.

 

great work Popkins, i seen this thread earlier today before i was leaving for work. I quickly turned on my Ipod and saved this on wifi so i could view it at work. Great work.

Theres not much problems i have with your list, besides some ratings you gave to fighters in "Quality Of Opponent" like Sasakul an A? Hill only a B-? and theres quite a few others. Besides that extraordinary work, I know u made a 2000's one also, i'll be reading that again.

 

Not exactly a pat on the back.


Very deceiving thread title by the way!

 

I thought it was a great list. Any reason you didn't have Carbajal-Gonzalez higher?

And even though you pointed out you're reasons not for including Whitaker vs de la Hoya, Trinidad vs de la Hoya and Quartey vs de la Hoya did you still not think of including them because they still went down as official wins?