After seeing various threads on Toney and reading many opinions about how Toney was robbed I decided to watch it myself. This fight tunred out to be a good scrap with good outside fighting, inside fighting, on the ropes, or in the center ring. Round 1-Griffin lands many clean left hooks, good jabs, and the occasional right. Toney had a hard time landing and Griffins shots were very loud and seemed very clean 10-9 Griffin Round 2-Toney getting in great downstairs and landing god jabs. Griffin continues to land clean and effectively 10-10, 20-19 Griffin Round 3-Griffin was winning this round the left hook was landing clean and even backing Toney up at times but a Toney right had him all over the ring 10-9 Griffin, 29-29 Even Round 4-Toney comes out scoring in the middle of the ring, Griffin takes him to the ropes and lands, They are shoulder to shoulder and Griffin is landing the cleaner shots. Mostly left hooks and some rights here and there 10-9 Griffin 39-38 Griffin Lederman has it 38-37 3-1 but 10-8 in the 3rd and no even round Round 5-They trade good blows then go to the ropes. Toney lands these crisp combos but Griffin always comes back with hard lefts 10-10 even 49-48 Griffin Foreman's announcing has been terrible so far Round 6-Toney mixes up power shots to the head and body incredibly and Griffin lands nothing meaningful 10-9 Toney 58-58 even Round 7-Boring round, mostly up against the ropes but with little throwing, They come off the ropes Toney starts landing. Then he is suddenly wobbled by a left hook to the shoulder and a left and right to the head held up only by the ropes. He was clearly hurt. Foreman yelled its a slip its a slip 10-9 Griffin 68-67 Griffin, Lederman had it 10-8 66-65 Griffin 4-3 Merchant even Foreman shut out Round 8- Close round Toney hit him hard and with good combos Griffin always came back but not effectively. 10-9 Toney 75-75 Even Round 9-Griffin displayed good footwork and a effective jabbing on the way in and some flush left hooks to add on to a good round 10-9 Griffin 85-84 Griffin Round 10-Griffin fought a defensive round making Toney come in and he hit air with some hooks. Griffin backed him up with a few jabs and continued this. Then he began to use combination and ate Toney's rights and kept coming. Griffin looks like he has more in the tank 10-9 Griffin 95-93 Griffin Lederman has it 95-93 giving Toney and 9 and 10 Round 11-Griffins jab lands flush and often and Toney is looking for the home run but hitting air Griffins right hand is hardest of the round Toney looks more worn out but the commentating says other wise 10-9 Griffin 105-102 Griffin Round 12-Either way toss up round though Griffin won the final exchange Either 114-112 Griffin or 115-112 Griffin Lederman had it 114-112 114-114 Ford 115-113 Graham 116-112 to Griffin by MD Great fight terrible commentating by Foreman Foreman was building Toneys power like it was Tyson but Griffin looked fine most of the fight and does that mean Griffin has a rock iron chin? Foreman said laer in the fight because Griffin was still there and that Toney had great power that Griffin had great recovery I dont think he gave a round to Griffin it was terrible
Griffin was a great fighter. His performances against Toney and in the first fight against Jones were superb. Very underrated, he remained in the top 10 at 175 something like 8 years despite only being 5'7" and fighting the best guys available.
I thought Toney might of won it on cleaner punches landed, but its his own fault he lost that fight, he let Griffin dictate the tempo, and was not active enough, although he was landing the cleaner shots imo. It was a close fight cause the rounds tended to be close, due to how little was being thrown, which leaves too much room for interpretation from one person to the next. I can see why Griffin got it lets say that.
Only Toney's deluded nuthuggers believe he was robbed in the Griffin fights. The worst nuthuggers, such as Frost, then go on to claim the Oquendo decision was fair :rofl.
Yeah he was robbed in both of those. Watch the fights. It was fair. Close but fair victory for Toney. People who actually score the fight knows it. [FONT="] Maybe Oquendo should try to be more agresive instead of running away and clinching the entire fight [/FONT]
