James toney: "pacquiao isnot on steroids; floyd isscared to fight"

JAMES TONEY: "PACQUIAO IS NOT ON STEROIDS; FLOYD IS SCARED TO FIGHT" By Ben Thompson | January 26, 2010 "These guys trying to be like me, but they ain't got the heart to do what I do. They don't got the heart to stand there and go toe- to-toe and slippin' and slide and come back with shots. They won't do that. Ain't nobody doing that. Floyd, he's the closest thing, but still...My thing is this, if you doubt yourself, you getting knocked out. That's the bottom line. I never doubt myself. When you get in the ring, it's balls to the wall baby," stated future Hall- of-Famer James "Lights Out" Toney as he shared his thoughts on today's fighters, namely Floyd Mayweather Jr., and what makes them different than old school fighter like himself. According to Toney, the only reason why a megafight between to the best boxers in the world isn't going to happen is because Mayweather doubts his own ability to defeat the Filipino superstar. "If he could get through Pacquiao, he should be fighting him right now. My thing is this, Manny Pacquiao is not on steroids. Floyd is scared to fight this boy because the boy is just as fast as him," Toney would explain as he laughed at the accusations of Pacquiao using performance-enhancing drugs. "Everybody making all these excuses. And then you got Oscar bringing his ass into this, you know what I'm saying? Oscar got knocked out by him . Oscar should know he's not on steroids because he got bombed out by him a year ago." In fact, Toney believes that if Manny Pacquiao isn't the only fighter that Mayweather should be scared to fight. "Shane's a hell of a fighter. He's big and he's strong. It's going to be a hell of a fight. That fight right there, that will test Floyd's mental and physical skills to the fullest tilt," Toney added. "We'll see what he's all about then. Right now, in my mind, the way Shane looked that last fight against Margarito a year ago, hey, Floyd got problems."