James Toney as a heavyweight?

Yeah, he'd do two or three times as well against Sonny than Floyd did.

He might even make it to round 4.

 

Exactly how I see it. That give a guy the shoulder and then playing lets feint each other on the outside is not going to work against Liston. He'd need a footwork improvement of about 700% to pull that off.

 

Hmmm tough one, Peter dropped Toney with a jab and Liston has probably the hardest jab around, also much more complete and technical fighter than Peter plus an actual gastank. I think he could TKO Toney, probably wouldn't legit stop him tho. Be very interesting to see Toney try and bully Liston and pull his cute tricks although I doubt he'd have much success countering Liston as he stayed on the outside of that jab.

 

Toney of Jirov-Holyfield era is a very good heavyweight. Better than Adamek. He would beat all journeymen and borderline contenders.
I bet if Jirov version of Toney were around 3 years ago he could get a belt or two as a heavyweight.

He could have beaten Lewis @ 200 pounds,one hand behind his back.

 

Peter caught him off balance. It scored yeah but it didnt hurt Toney at all. Come on,we both know it.
It was a flash kd

 

How many middleweights survive sam peter twice?

 

There’s no performance Toney gave at heavyweight to suggest he was a formidable head-to-head force in the division.