Quote Originally Posted by dee_z_r View Post
sounds weird but is their a book by james toney
or something bout his kinda style
There's no book on him that I'm aware of. Anyways, here's good quote by James Toney that tells a little about his learning:

"Bill Miller, he was a great old man, he sat me down and showed me tapes of old fighters," Toney recalled. "Ezzard Charles, Albert 'Chalky' Wright. Battling Siki. People like that. Jersey Joe Walcott. Archie Moore. He would say, 'This is how you learn. This is the correct way of fighting.' So I would sit there and watch tapes over and over again, and try those things in the gym, and I would get murdered. But I kept coming back, kept coming back, kept working, kept learning my trade. And then one day it was like each of those fighter's spirits entered my body and made me fight like that."

“I developed my style by watching tapes of old fighters. I watched Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott constantly, and Tommy Hearns , Marvin Hagler . I learned a lot from watching these guys and studying. Some of it just comes naturally. “

Watching the videos alone isn't what developed his style. James Toney (at least early on) had to train his butt off, and even seeing the right right moves being done on those old tapes he still had to put it together on his own. No doubt that we would get hit trying overcome that learning curve, but like he said, one day it as like each of those fighter's spirits entered his body and made him fight like that.