![]() I'd love to get a piece of that little punk. We have a cancer in the heavyweight division - the Klitschko Sisters. "I keep telling people," said Toney earlier in the week, "I'm the past. He'll think he can take on the world again." Again? Truth is, it's a thought he has never stopped thinking. "The worst thing that could happen," says one of Toney's team after his opening victory, "is if James wins this thing. The one bit of class in the entire tournament and proof that Toney is at least still acquainted with a killer instinct, however accommodating the prey. Then, a minute into the third, Toney made Legg miss, swayed out of range and promptly finished the job. Toney (right) beat Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas in 2003įor two rounds against Legg, a 37-year-old clogger from Milton Keynes, Toney crept and creaked and flailed the odd right hand. Toney, a self-styled former gun-toting crack dealer, out to prove dad wrong. Back when Toney, whose father shot and wounded his mother when he was only one, was still full of filth and fury. Or of the time he savaged Iran Barkley in 1993 to claim the IBF super-middleweight crown. My greatest night among many great nights." Up he gets at nine, wades back into the mayhem. "Left hook - POW! - over Nunn goes in the 11th round. Toney will probably be keeping quiet about this surreal old night.īetter to bounce the grandkids on his knees and tell of the time in 1991 that James 'Lights Out' Toney upset the great Michael Nunn to become, at 22, the youngest middleweight world champion for more than half a century. At least Legg has something to tell the grandkids. Matt Legg, his quarter-final opponent, had fought seven pro fights and 22 rounds. Fit to fight what?īefore Thursday, Toney had fought an almost incomprehensible 88 fights and 666 rounds as a pro. ![]() Doctors and promoters tell us that Toney is healthy and declare him fit to fight. The mind remains sharp but the mouth can't keep up. ![]() Words repeated, whole sentences incomprehensible. Transcribing our conversation was sad and tortuous. Boxing has been waiting in ambush, now comes the vengeance. Three-weight world champion, future Hall of Famer, one of the modern greats, Toney took too much. This brutal sport of boxing, that hates its participants taking too much. Born: 24 August 1968, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US ![]()
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