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| Does anyone have the full interview? I say Toney is on crack! _______________ JAMES "LIGHTS OUT" TONEY SPARES NO ONE By Darren Nichols "The referee Eddie Cotton, and the judge John Stewart were all high, constipated, whatever. Everybody at Top Rank, they’re all ball-less. When I was cracking Rahman, he couldn’t take my shots. You all saw him doing the Yankee Doodle Doo." |
| It can be said that there is no one like James "Lights Out" Toney. But that would be trite, and a vast understatement to boot. James is well, James. He can say "excuse me" for coughing half way through a sentence in which he is cussing out a "garbage" fighter and his pregnant wife. It is as though he has a little white angel and red devil on each shoulder, and since they are constantly battling each other for supremacy, James decides to say and do things that make both sides of his conscience happy. Toney stays true to himself that way, which makes for an extrememly entertaining interview. btalk caught up with Lights Out this past weekend on ESPN's Friday Night Fights put on by Goossen Tutor for a little round table discussion about his March 18th draw again Hasim Rahman, why he wants to fight him again, why he was in the hospital for two and a half weeks after their fight, and why he has a beef with some of the biggest names in boxing. I know I've said this before, but THIS IS TRULY ONE INTERVIEW YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS!!! |