James Toney !!!!!

Really? Have you read Ring Magazine anytime in the last 20 years. Crack dealer from Ann Arbor, former football player, makes good. Comes out of nowhere to land a left hook on Mike Nunn. Proceeds with an under-achieving, tho Hall of Fame run, with an unforgivable performance against a Sunday School teacher and some guy named Drake. Gets a gift over an aged Mike McCallum in one of the two most boring fights ever fought. Becomes a prime investor in the Wendy's Corporation and fails to land a role as the Michelin Man, tho not for lack of effort. Has a run as a roided heavyweight which some gullible saps find a revelation.

But let's remember the efforts against Nunn, Barkley, Williams, Jirov and Holyfield.

 

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the two McCallum fights meaning the first and second one? the 2nd one may have been boring but the first one was probably the most intriguing MW fight of the 90s

 

People know him now as the fat, possibly brain-damaged goof that sometimes pollutes the heavyweight division, but at one time he was a very good middlweight with a weight problem.

Then he was a very very good supermiddleweight with an eating problem.

And so on.

 

Great fighter willing to take on anyone but his "hunger" outside of the ring and undisciplined ways caught up to him. He was arguably the most aesthetically pleasing fighter to watch of recent times when he was on and arguably the best inside fighter of recent times too. He gets underrated now because so called "fans" now only think of the fat,shot one now and not the man of the Mccallum 1 & 2, Holyfield, Jirov, and when he ko'd Nunn. Him and DLH get underrated now but need to be considered great and not these cherrypickers of modern times.


The second Mccallum fight wasn't as bad as people make it seems and if you're a true boxing fan it's impossible not to respect the skills of both men and if you're a purist you will watch the fight based on the high skill both men showed.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJMBGAUelG0[/ame]

 

I watched the first McCallum fight in 1991 yesterday and I thought Toney clearly won by two points. Should have been a win for him. I'm gonna watch the second fight between them tomorrow.

 

people make a big deal about Toney getting the decision in the 2nd fight but can't get it through their little brains that he deserved the nod in the first fight

 

James Toney is 3rd in my all time p4p list , a top 10 all time MW , his chin is #1 all time p4p .
boxrec , youtube can tell you a lot about him , but you need , like in every case , to know the truth behind the boxrec record , sometimes boxrec itself does it 4u if u read carefully , sometimes it still doesn't , which is part of d reason 2 y u need d youtube .
James Toney was truly a great fighter. D greatest of his generation at least.