Why was James Toney such a waste

[1lparm]

Good power, excellent counterpuncher, great boxing IQ, strong chin, solid footwork. The guy had so many tools in his bag but ate his way out of greatness how does that happen to a world class boxer.

[Lupara]

You just said it

No discipline with food

[ramses07]

just like Roberto duran

you grow up dirt poor and get some money

its hard to say no to fine dining and women

[Gideon lock]

Good power, excellent counterpuncher, great boxing IQ, strong chin, solid footwork. The guy had so many tools in his bag but ate his way out of greatness how does that happen to a world class boxer.

Toney is a legend I respect him for fighting and training for years with low t shows you how skilled he actually was. Nothing to do with eating.

"I went to the doctor on the advice of some people that work closely with me and found out that I was suffering from thyroid problems as well as low testosterone problems," Toney told Percy Crawford at Fighthype.

Toney claims that medication he was given following surgery (to repair two torn bicep muscles after his 2004 victory over Rydell Booker) was the culprit in this weighty problem.

"They gave me a lot of medication and it caused me to have a low testosterone count as well as thyroid problems. My weight has been hit and miss ever since then and I didn't understand why," he says.

Toney is now on medication to correct his health issues, and says his weight is now in the "low 240s" after being 257 only weeks ago.

Feeling reborn and confident, Toney has now resumed his usual obscenity-laced trash talking, setting his sights a little higher than boxing writers this time, but not as high as the Klitschko brothers.

Thus, former light-heavyweight king turned heavyweight Antonio Tarver.

"I'm about to be back to the Rydell Booker and Holyfield form," Toney says"

[El_Mero]

HOFer regardless. Although he never reached what his talents couldve taken him to

[buddyr]

one word..


"food"

[HeadShots]

without the excessive eating, he would've never become heavyweight champ and knocking out Evander Holyfield.


James Toney >>> Mike Tyson


fat Toney would mug Tyson heads up too.

[SN!PER]

Rid**** Bowe . . . . Ike Ibeabuchi . . . . two more brilliant fighters who never reached their full potential

[Zaroku]

I think he got too much puntang

HOF

[Zaroku]

just like Roberto duran

you grow up dirt poor and get some money

its hard to say no to fine dining and women

Yes Sir!

grow up dirt poor and get diabetes

my two younger cousins David and jimmy lost limbs and then life.

I walk everywhere
I don’t have a car in Tokyo
and I gotta plan and walk and do stairs

some train stations don’t have elevators or escalators

buses run on time and wait for no body

i gotta walk a lot to get a sandwich