James Toney vs Nigel Benn or Chris Eubank at Super middleweight???

[Orange Sneakers]

I think Benn was tailor-made for Toney.

Eubank had a TERRIFIC stiff jab. A Eubank-Toney fight would 100% depend on whether Toney could read it to avoid and counter because otherwise he would be grinded down.

[Kilrain]

Why did the Toney-Benn or Toney-Eubank fights never happen anyway? Is there a reason?

[sonnyboyx2]

Toney beats both... Eubank was tough and would last the distance while Benn would get KOd

[General Zod]

Why did the Toney-Benn or Toney-Eubank fights never happen anyway? Is there a reason?

The winner of Toney Jones supposed to fight the winner of Benn McClellan, Toney lost and moved up to LHW. Eubank months later tired of Toney's mom insults said that," if Toney could get down to SMW again he would fight him." I think its during the post fight talks after the Eubank-Wharton fight. I dont know what happened after that, like whether there were serious talks or not. It would of been a great fight as well maybe like :Toney-Nunn

[phallus]

The winner of Toney Jones supposed to fight the winner of Benn McClellan, Toney lost and moved up to LHW. Eubank months later tired of Toney's mom insults said that," if Toney could get down to SMW again he would fight him." I think its during the post fight talks after the Eubank-Wharton fight. I dont know what happened after that, like whether there were serious talks or not. It would of been a great fight as well maybe like :Toney-Nunn

by then it was too late, james couldn't make 168 anymore, he had trouble making 175

[Rich.r]

Toney Ko`s him late.

[mickey malone]

Why did the Toney-Benn or Toney-Eubank fights never happen anyway? Is there a reason?

As the TP points out, Toney called them both out on a live TV link.. I don't have access to it but i bet someone on here has?..
The reason I remeber this is because I found Toney highly amusing, and some of what he said, I used to have on my sig - "I'll whoop you, I'll whoop ya brothers, I'll whoop ya Pappa and I'll even whoop ya Momma too!"..
Benn and Eubank were on there to pitch one of their fights (the 1st one, I think) and were right in the middle of trash talking one another when they suddenly beamed in Toney, who didn't waste a second in machine gunning them with a tirade of abuse which left them both dumbfounded as they pretended to ignore it - Eubank exclaiming, "The man'th jutht ignorant!" So there could be an argument that they avoided him..

As the for the matchups, i'm in agreement that Benn would'a given Toney some wobbly moments before getting stopped in a similar way to how Michael Watson did it.. Toney would take a lot of his bombs on the arms and shoulders.. Benn through very few straight punches, so he wouldn't have had too much difficulty getting on the inside of Benn as he tired.. Toney TKO 8-10

Against Eubank, would definitely be a distance fight.. Neither were KO specialists, and both had ATG chins.. I also think that he could have been Toney's 'Griffin' at SMW..
A chess match of a fight, with Eubank's slightly better conditioning and cleaner punches eeking out a SD..

[Shazam!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nVy3hkcQuI

[NChristo]

Eubank wouldn't of beat him at the time

Pre-Watson fight though and I think it would of been an amazing fight, I'd favor Eubank because i'm somewhat of a fan lol, could of gone either way though.

Benn again would of been a hell of a fight but think he would take too much of a beating from Toney, late TKO.

[mickey malone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nVy3hkcQuI

Thanks.. I enjoyed that