is he a southpaw
is he a speed boxer
2007-01-09 02:23:17 · 8 answers · asked by terrance w 1 in Sports ➔ Boxing
Bloated, out of shaped boxer.
2007-01-11 18:51:49 · answer #1 · answered by tyrone b 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
James Toney is an ignorant racist boxer in my opinion. Has anyone watched or heard what he has said in his interviews?? I guess to some people that is acceptable. Ignorance likes hanging with ignorance I suppose. He has not been that impressive of a heavyweight in all his career. Sure he beat Ruiz and gained the title. Not to mention that he was jacked up on steroids. I laughed so hard when both his title and his fight purse were stripped. When he loses all he does is get pissed off and starts denying the outcome while ranting obscenities. Next he will go after the opponent's manager. I guess he is trying to actually get at someone he can defeat. All I have to say is that he better double his dosage next time he fights Peter or anyone for that matter.
2007-01-09 03:21:30 · answer #2 · answered by bribri75 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
james toney was a almost great boxer he had all the tools but he would not prepare himself properly. he could throw short shots,slip and out hustle anyone but he would beat himself and when the result was announced he blamed everyone but james toney.yes he may still go into the hall in 10yrs. but if he had a better attitude and got himself in shape he would make it sooner
2007-01-09 12:09:04 · answer #3 · answered by saxaphonist 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He is an over weight boxer and I think he is showing signs of boxing dementia. He should retire now.
2007-01-09 18:22:09 · answer #4 · answered by gman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is the former IBF middleweight champion, super middleweight champion, and cruiserweight champion. He is a future Hall of Famer. He is "Lights Out" James Toney.
Toney won the WBA heavyweight world title in April 2005 with a 12-round decision against defending champion, John Ruiz. However, Toney tested positive in the post-fight drug test for the steroid, nandrolone. The New York State Athletic Commission suspended him for 90 days and fined him $10,000. The result was changed to No Decision, and James was stripped of his title.
Toney tore the biceps and triceps muscles in his left arm in is September 2003 fight against Rydell Booker, and underwent surgery two days later. He was prescribed medication shortly after the surgery, and his arms was in a cast until the following January.
His promoter, Dan Goossen said, "James received medical treatment for recovery from his bicepts and triceps surgery last year. His doctor has stated that the combination of medications used to control the inflammation and tissue growth caused the positive test result. This is further supported since the body, in combination with the medications, naturally creates the form of substance reflected in the test results. It is simply not true that James either tried to cheat or even cheated without knowing it."
James said, "Being accused of taking performance enhancing substances is an insult to me. I don't do drugs, period. I've never used any illegal substances to prepare myself for a fight. I don't need to cheat. My strength is my skills. People don't remember that I weighed 205 pounds in high school 20 years ago. I put on weight last year because I had nothing to do but sit on my fat butt.
"If I'm on steroids, then I'll put every steroid company out of business because I was a fat bastard for the Ruiz fight.
"I have always been ready to fight anybody out there, any time, anywhere. I will knock them all over. My talent speaks for itself."
James is undefeated in his last 15 fights: 14-0, 1 ND - dating back to June 1997. His two wins in 2003 against former four-time heavyweight world champion, Evander Holyfield and IBF cruiserweight world champion, Vassiliy Jirov, were among the most significant of his career and earned Toney the "2003 Fighter of the Year" award by The Ring Magazine.
Toney was also the Ring's "Fighter of the Year" in 1991. He said, "I'm a much better fighter now than I was then, because number one, I'm more serious about my game. Back then, I wasn't. I would train, but it was half-assed. I would be in a hurry to go sit in a club or something like that. Now, I take better care of my body than I did before. Plus, I'm fighting more hungry..."
Toney further added, "After I turned pro, I was living in Ann Arbor and Greg Owens, who started me out, we would go down to all the best gyms in the city to see where's the best opposition. If you got good opposition, great, I want to see, show me something. I spent a lot of time at the Kronk Gym, that's where you learn your trade, that's how you learn to become a fighter, going to the trenches. If you can fight therem, you can fight anywhere in the world. That's why most fighters in the world, fighters from the east coast and west, when they come to Kronk, they got into a do-or-die situation, they can't survive in there. De La Hoya came in there, he didn't last but a couple of days. Even Evander Holyfield didn't last too long. I thought he would last longer than he did, but he didn't. Kronk is not only in the basement, it's in a nasty neighborhood. It's hot as hell, and that's how I like it. I was down there kicking ***."
James Toney has beaten former world champions, Evander Holyfield (TKO 9), Vassiliy Jirov (W 12), Adolpho Washington (TKO 10), Charles Williams (KO 12), Iran Barkley (TKO 9), Doug DeWitt (TKO 6), Reggie Johnson (W 12), and Michael Nunn (TKO 11).
2007-01-09 02:26:59 · answer #5 · answered by rodandalisonthompson 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Say what you want but Tony is extreamly skilled and probably has the best chin I have ever seen. He is clearly on the decline but he is one of only two middleweights to capture a heavyweight belt.
2007-01-09 07:53:01 · answer #6 · answered by crazyhorse19682003 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He is a rghthanded fighter!!!
2007-01-12 14:02:48 · answer #7 · answered by Sister 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just a bruiser kind of like george foreman
2007-01-09 02:27:48 · answer #8 · answered by links305 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋