James Toney vs Evander Holyfield At Cruiserweight.

[ElTerribleMorales]

IMO Holyfield is one of, if not the greatest Cruiserweight Champion of all times, and Toney even though what he did in his comeback from the Jirove fight all the way till the Peter fights was impressive, he didn't dominate a guy (Jirov) who was clearly no on tier with Holyfield at Cruiserweight, it would probably have been a competitive fight but i see Holyfield stopping him late, he didn't have too much power at HW, but at Cruiser he had dynamite in his gloves

[ICB]

IMO Holyfield is one of, if not the greatest Cruiserweight Champion of all times, and Toney even though what he did in his comeback from the Jirove fight all the way till the Peter fights was impressive, he didn't dominate a guy (Jirov) who was clearly no on tier with Holyfield at Cruiserweight, it would probably have been a competitive fight but i see Holyfield stopping him late, he didn't have too much power at HW, but at Cruiser he had dynamite in his gloves

Vassiliy Jirov was a very good fighter though, he was an Olympic Gold Medalist with a 31-0 record. And i don't think Evander Holyfield would of dominated him either, but still James Toney fought a masterful fight on the inside. And i didn't think it was really that close points wise.

I don't think Evander Holyfield was that much worse as a Heavyweight, remember you have to take into account the opposition at Cruiserweight. Im not saying James Toney fought really good opposition either, but outside of Dwight Muhammad Qawi x2 who was better at Light Heavyweight IMO, and a past his prime Carlos De Leon, Evander Holyfield's record was modest.

And again i don't feel he was really a big puncher at Cruiserweight either, he had fast hands and he was very accurate. But i think saying he had dynamite in both hands is overrating his power somewhat.

And theres no way he would stop James Toney either, James Toney not only has a great chin. He has a great defense and remember Evander Holyfield, was still a novice at Cruiserweight. So im not sure if that version of Evander Holyfield would have enough, to deal with the slippery/skilled James Toney.

[DaxxKahn]

I go with Evander by SD, not that I can not see JT winning but he is so up and down when it comes to conditioning..

At CW Holyfield was a beast, I see Toney getting gassed by the 8th and spends the rest of the bout trying to avoid big bombs