James Toney vs Tim Littles:Have you seen this fight?

[TBear]

One of Toney best performances, especially round 3, which was a clinic in counterpunching. I think the fight should of got stopped a bit sooner though. Also does anyone here have any info on Littles, he was a very talented fighter imo?

Remember watching it live, Littles was good, beat Frankie Liles but lost the rematch, I believe the rematch was after this. LightsOut you know I got these fights, my appoligies for not being organized enough to find them now. I have checked a few storage areas already for the Nunn-Liles fight but no luck.

[Toney616]

it was attempted murder - i have said for more than 10yrs that IMO James Toney is one of the greatest fighters who ever lived.

I can agree with this, he was at his peak at smw its a shame he let outside issues derail his career. My fav Toney fights are: McCallum I, Littles and Barkley

[Toney616]

Littles is best known for beating Roy Jones in the amateurs as well as his fights against Frankie Liles, both in the amateurs and the pros.

Those fights are hard to come by. I have seen Littles-Liles II, I cant find anything else with either him or Liles

I thought this was one of Toney's best performances. He was in there against a talented opponent and needed to show urgency after getting cut, and he did by getting Littles out of there.

Toney was in a zone in this fight, especially during round 3, when he started to time Littles right hands

The Littles-Liles fights are must watch if you want to know more about Littles.

Thats a great fight as well, lol at the time keeper for ringing the bell around 30 seconds to early in the first round as well

[Toney616]

i agree james toney is an ATG no matter what anyone says about his weight problems but aint nobody have them skills like that including floyd mayweather james toney will stand right in front of you and dare you to hit him square on the chin but he has that ruggedness to torture you with sharp counters and he was a warrior!!!

I agree Toney back then had some great skills, its a shame fights with Benn and Eubank never happened

[joe strong]

this was awesome...the ref gave him one round or hed stop it....the rest is history

[Toney616]

I've never heard anyone question Toney's "greatness" based upon him being a fat f^ck.I don't regard him as an ATG,even if he does have dem slick African American type skillz.

Whats your criteria for deciding if a fighter is a ATG or not?

When a shot Holyfield,and an overrated Jirov are counted as among greatest wins,it doesn't say a whole lot about your resume.

A lot of that was because he was fighting guys who were naturally much bigger than himself and they were both great performances by Toney.

Mayweather is a more skilled,more versatile boxer than James Toney ever was.

In what ways do you think Mayweather is better than Toney?

[Toney616]

I have checked a few storage areas already for the Nunn-Liles fight but no luck.

Thanks for looking anyway

[Toney616]

this was awesome...the ref gave him one round or hed stop it....the rest is history

Awesome performance by Toney, it also showed the kind of fighter he was by dealing with such adversity

[frankenfrank]

I've never heard anyone question Toney's "greatness" based upon him being a fat f^ck.I don't regard him as an ATG,even if he does have dem slick African American type skillz.

When a shot Holyfield,and an overrated Jirov are counted as among greatest wins,it doesn't say a whole lot about your resume.


Mayweather is a more skilled,more versatile boxer than James Toney ever was.

For a fat middleweight to beat a tough undefeated reigning cruiserweight champion , much bigger and 6 years younger than himself it is a great P4P achievement . His win over Holyfield is somewhat less impressing but still , 7 years later Holyfield remained unstopped and had some nice wins since then.
And then come Toney's wins over Sanderline Williams (avenged draw) , Merqui Sosa , Michael Nunn , Doug DeWitt , Iran Barkley , Tony Thornton , Tim Littles , Charles Williams , Ernest Mateen (Toney well ahead on points prior to the disqualification) , Steve Littles , Adolpho Washington , Rydell Booker , Dominick Guinn and the draw against Hasim Rahman .
Yet unstopped as a boxer to this day .
Who did better ? Roberto Duran ? Manny Pacquiao ?

[Toney616]

my appoligies for not being organized enough to find them now. I have checked a few storage areas already for the Nunn-Liles fight but no luck.

Its alright now, I have it