Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
Exactly bud, and on the point I made with James Toney...Toney has one of the best chins/defenses in boxing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLXZJo8p4Y
Agree totally with your points on Toney. He should have been in the voting for this little discussion. His "come from behind" (although I thought it was even when he KO'd him) win over Nunn was a special fight for me. I was a young boy watching boxing with my Dad and I just wanted to see more and more of this guy.

As for his chin and defense, If anyone has played the new fight night game with Ali, Teddy Atlas says something along the lines of "Ali was really hard to hit due to his reflex's and speed and then when someone did eventually get through he just stood there and took it because of his great chin" well that to me sums up James Toney, he is a defensive master and has a granite chin behind it, if it wasn't for his drug cheating I would get on about him a lot more on here but he really let everyone down when he started using steroids.

A fight I would have loved to have seen him in though was against B-Hop, it may not have had any interest from Joe public, but for the boxing purists it would have been a very meaningful and hard to predict fight, certainly for me.