Is James Toney pulling a publicity stunt ?

Honestly, I think it is solely a financial thing. He has a name and used it to gain a deal with one of the top stars of another sport. Shaq did the same thing.

 

I think niether yet I don't know the financial aspecs of this fight with couture. I think he is doing this to see if he can and as a challenge to MMA and thier fans who call boxing boring.

 

Then he should've done it the right way, like Michael Jordan with Nike... even today the shoes sell very well, making millions for the ex-Chicago Bull player!!

McToney burger: "four layers of meat wrapped in bacon and on each stage a piece of cheese and without letuce"

 

Im not american so exuse my ignorance but did Shaq not used to be or still is a WWE wrestler?

 

Honestly, I think Toney will beat this MMA guy.

Even though I know Toney is old and fat and out of shape and has no kicks and no wrestling and no jujitsu and all that other stuff

 

How? The UFC does not pay ****.

 

Pretty sure that couture is one of th highest paid guys in ufc and the most Dana white pays him is around 400k.

 

Not really directly relevant to the thread topic but here's a little observation I've made pertaining to MMA: One of the main selling points of MMA over boxing at the moment is that the best are forced to fight the best because all the match making is done in an in-house league style arrangement, but that is eventually going to turn to **** in their hands and become even worse than having multiple sanctioning bodies in boxing because there are more and more MMA fight leagues/organizations starting up all over the world and they don't really do inter-league match making. So eventually you'll have 20+ MMA world champions in a given weight divison (for example) who aren't even allowed to unify.

 

James Toney will win this, I have a few bets with a couple of my friends. Even though it's not the same Toney his experience and talking it's too much for any MMA guy. He would get into his head and will make them fight his fight. Dont be surprise if Toney wins by a KO just like Ray Mercer did to Tim Sylvia in 9 seconds.

 

i don't think james has a chance even if hes in great shape. trying to beat a ufc champion under ufc rules is almost next to impossible. I'm still going to watch the fight to root for the dog.

 

From the outset I'm inclined to agree with you, a lot of Toney's defensive stylings are not suited to MMA rules, shoulder roll, fighting off the ropes will get him in trouble. But hopefully he is smart enough to realise and adjust his boxing to suit MMA, and also who knows what other tricks he may have up his sleeve.

 

So what you think of a very old Ray Mercer ko's Tim Sylvia in 9 seconds who was a UFC champ?