By Mark Vester
Heavyweight contender James "Lights Out" Toney is not going to vanish any time soon, he would like to face Samuel Peter for a third time. Toney feels that he was robbed by the judges and wants justice, but a third meeting is probably not going to happen. Toney felt that Peter only won three rounds of the fight, while most observers scored the fight for Peter by a very wide margin.
“Nobody knocks James Toney out,” Toney said. “Nobody. I came all the way from middleweight. I’m still the best fighter out there. I give him [Peter] three rounds at the most. I took his best shots. I’m still standing."
Peter, who is going to face WBC heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev next, felt that he dominated the fight and executed everything that he wanted to do in the ring with Toney.
“You saw what I did tonight,” Peter said. “I taunted him [Toney]. I gave him the Muhammad Ali shuffle, with a little Floyd Mayweather, too. This was my best fight. I fight the best. The South Florida camp Don King made me do was great. He didn’t let me stay in Las Vegas. I had a great training camp. I even missed Christmas. I ran on the beach for the first time and I loved it. I had a great team."
“I trained hard. Toney is a very slick guy. He trained hard and is crafty. I’m not the best heavyweight yet. I have to give the world champions credit, they have the belts. But I am going to be the best and take the belts from them all. I have great jab. It’s like a right hand. Toney kept saying, ‘Hit me, hit me’ and I hit him. It will be sweet to be the very first heavyweight world champion from Africa.”