James Toney's best win?

1)welcome!

2)Senna is a ****ing saint. I have immense respect for the man

3)Maybe cracks top 5 wins. Nunn, McCalum, Jirov were all better

 

Nunn was certainly his best.

 

i don't know, nunn was near the top of the pound for pound list at the time and was considered the favourite going in. he was a superstar in the making

holyfield was long past his best and was ranked in the top 20 heavyweights but nowhere near pound for pound.

 

1. Michael Nunn
2. Mike McCallum
3. Vasiliy Jirov
4. Reggie Johnson
5. Evander Holyfield

 

Nunn was also undefeated and the way Toney won, turning the fight around, was really amazing.

 

Nunn had actually lost a lot of the cred he built up against Tate etc by the time he fought Toney, and with leaving the goosen's\taking on Dundee etc he was at a bit of a crossroads.another bad performance or two away from being the forgotten fighter he did become after losing to James.

Not that it wasn't still a major upset of course.

 

Barkley and Williams were good ones, too, though both were closer to the end.

 

those highlights prove prime holy would certainly beat toney

 

good post:thumbsup

 

Not got time to go into detail, so I'll leave it at one statement: Nunn was his best win, but if he had got the decision he deserved in the first McCallum fight, that could have rivalled the Nunn victory, given that the Bodysnatcher was still a very potent force at the time.

 

Michael nunn

 

I have to go with Barkley.

 

Toney was turning things in the Nunn fight but Nunn had an insurmountable lead and was 3 1/2 minutes from retaining his title against a one-eyed Toney, not to mention the decisions in the McCallum and Johnson fights were dubious. If one wants to see a remarkable performance by Toney, watch the Iran Barkley fight. He turns in a virtuoso performance in the art of counter-punching, not to mention his weight had not spiraled out of control. That was Toney at his best.

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