15 Years Ago Today: There Was “War On October 4!” – Holyfield vs Toney

08/21/202410/04/2018 James Slater

Who was big enough? Who was good enough? Who had the most left? There were plenty of questions going into the clash between future Hall of Famers that took place at The Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on October 4, and fans were about as split down the middle as could be in picking who would win: James Toney or Evander Holyfield.

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The Great James Toney At 50 – His Fighting Days Are Done

08/24/2018 James Slater

James Toney, who today celebrates his 50th birthday, is done fighting, he is done even trying to fight; yet the former multi-weight king is safe in the knowledge that he has pretty much done it all.

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Let’s play boxing promoter…

04/13/201804/13/2018 Johnathan Culver

I think being a boxing promoter is such a fun occupation – especially the matchmaking. If I were a boxing promoter, I would not only try to match the best against the best, but I would also put together fights between fighters who are entertaining, but not necessarily the best, pound-for-pound or even the best at their optimal weights.

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Top 10 by Decade – Part II: Cruiserweights

03/21/201803/21/2018 Rummys Corner

Ranking fighters across different eras is a very tricky business. In Part 1 of the new “Top 10 by Decade” series, we explored the heavyweight division with a new scoring experiment designed to try and objectively identify the Top 10 heavyweights from each decade, from the 1930s through the 2000s, while also providing a snapshot of what things look like in the current decade.

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Gerald McClellan vs. James Toney: Who would have won this epic?

03/01/201802/28/2018 James Slater

How boxing history, or to be more precise, middleweight boxing history, could have been different had this fight taken place – as it came so close to doing.

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James Toney arrives in UK for “exhibition bout,” gives his take on Joshua and Wilder

11/22/2017 James Slater

All-time great James Toney has seen it all, done it all and he’s fought ’em all, yet he’s still trying to keep on keeping on.

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James Toney to fight Britain’s Sam Pomphrey in white collar bout in Bristol, UK November 25

11/15/2017 James Slater

You won’t see it on BoxRec and chances are it won’t generate too many articles or post-fight reports, but all-time great James Toney is set to fight again – in Bristol, England on November 25, against Sam Pomphrey, 2-0 as a pro.

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Happy Birthday, James Toney – where does “Lights Out” rank all-time?

08/25/201708/24/2017 James Slater

Boxing great James Toney celebrates his 49th birthday today, yet we do not know for sure if his fighting career has yet reached its end.

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James Toney recalls his disastrous move into MMA, says his fight with Randy Couture “has nothing to do with Conor McGregor”

07/25/201707/24/2017 James Slater

Fight fans surely remember the time boxing great James Toney met MMA great Randy Couture in one of the first big-name crossover fights of its kind.

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James Toney victorious in his “final” fight, stops Mike Sheppard to win WBF belt

05/14/2017 James Slater

Last night in Michigan, in a fight that was barely covered, 48 year old future Hall of Famer James Toney improved to a quite amazing 77-10-3(47) with a TKO win over veteran journeyman Mike Sheppard.

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