James Toney is back! Toney/Lebedev live!

[Gandalf]

Well it's a new day and what is done is done. Toney needs to retire. You can't look that bad and expect to carry on injury or no injury. Nobody gets better in their 40's and Toney is father christmas old.

It was almost a shut out against someone who in all honesty isn't particularly good.

[Gandalf]

The injury is clearly as real as Hopkins injury. Look at the post fight presser, Toney can barely walk. He wasn't just shot, he was injured! It was Tyson/Williams except that there is no quit in James Toney.

Toney looked like crap mainly because he couldn't do anything with a leg being buggered up. He is past his best and should probably retire, but this fight is not a proper indicator of just how gone James Toney is.

[Majesty]

Shame for the injury though. I guess its karma for talking bad about Hopkins injury. But who knows how he'd have looked if it hadn't happened, his body probably isn't used to being so light and his joints are probably still adjusting to it all.

Give him rehab he'll have one more fight if he comes in at 199 again and wins he may have a shot at cruiserweight.

Sad cause he had an opponent he probably could have beaten without the injury but he'll get no rematch.


Then again he also had McGirt training him and that's a curse in itself these days.

best of luck to him though, sucks he finally dedicated himself and got hurt.

[Gandalf]

The injury is frustrating. Toney didn't look particularly hot in the first round prior to the two drunken stumbles in the second, but it's impossible to gauge whether what happened afterwards was down to injury or just being shot beyond all measure.

But I have never seen someone lose ALL of their skills in a single fight though. Toney was one dimensional and had only one rather lacklustre strategy which was to hold back and try to time the lead right.

Since when has James Toney ever become that limited? He was even ducking into Lebedev's punches towards the end.

[Gandalf]

But for sure, the skills haven't gone in a single fight. Toney/Peter 2 was the other big indicator and seemingly a leg injury was a contributing factor for that one.

Injury or no injury there is no escaping the fact that Toney is in his mid 40's.

[Gandalf]

Look at Toney here, barely able to walk at the post fight conference. Injured.

[JerryEK]

This should be exciting.