If there's anyone I pick to avoid a big it's prime Jones. He just didnt take hard shots in his prime. I think he could potshot his way to victory over any fighter in history he's just too fast and too elusive. The well trained heavyweights who fought hard all fight likely catch up to him but someone like sanders who relied on timin and speed, he ain't gonna catch Jones as he'd be countered before he lands his own counter and he'll find Jones is out of range again before he throws his shot.
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
There’s no performance Toney gave at heavyweight to suggest he was a formidable head-to-head force in the division.