Ruiz Vs Toney Time!!!

[The Pretender]

Ruiz deserves a rematch! How about best out of three?? Pre-pay your PPV tickets now!

[Zab Super Judah]

i would rather have toney fight someone BIG first so he can prepare for vitali

[The Pretender]

Nope Byrd goes to Wlad.
Vitaly vs James is what we need.

Vitali would murder Toney. It'd be Lewis-Tyson all over again.

[The Pretender]

i would rather have toney fight someone BIG first so he can prepare for vitali

Ruiz is big.

[The Pretender]

You all will miss the exciting fights Ruiz always brought with him to the ring. Just wait.

[HayeFan]

I'm still in shock, Ruiz fought like a man ... and lost, bonus!

Toney looked good, hopefully it's either Byrd or Klitschko next.

[PBDS]

....Here is your money Zab. I am happy to give it to you. 1000000.00 points donated to Zab Super Judah successfully!

[Guest]

anorak?!??!?! is that you!!!!!!!!!

No, it wasn't!

Listen - I haven't got time to go through all 17 pages - it's nearly 5am over here in Limeyland, so I'll just say this: will everyone's heart always be in their throat when they see James Toney fight?

My worst nightmare was the image of seeing him get knocked out in the remaining seconds. Seeing a little guy get beaten on by a bigger guy is a frightening thing... Toney's got a fantastic chin, but any man is capable of getting KOed, particularly in this division.

So was Toney just playing around for the first half of the fight or was Ruiz really outboxing him at times? By round six I think I had Ruiz actually ahead. What really worried me was that Toney appeared slightly anxious at first (though maybe I just couldn't read his expression on streaming) and Ruiz seemed confident.

Toney seems to have such overconfidence in his own chin he almost willingly takes shots just for kicks. But that strange wobbly dance on (ISTR) the end of the tenth round - was that a put on or was he really exhausted?

Full credit to Ruiz for trying to entertain and actually match Toney - his punching power is underrated, though in the second half he was exhausted and went back to his usual style. Did they interview him? Streaming altered to WWE before a Ruiz interview.

Okay, here's the top five bits for me, in reverse order:


5. James's "wobbly dance" - not the (involuntary?) one referenced above, but the one he did to Ruiz after Ruiz hit him after the bell.

4. James getting hit full in the face and then wiping his nose as if he had an itch on it.

3. The knockdowns.... okay, neither were real knock downs, but for a second they were exciting, weren't they?

2. (paraphrased) "Don King's gonna put him back in the trash can, the same place that he found him."



And the best part of the fight was...














1. The press conference. Let's face it, this was pretty good, but Toney wasn't as aggressive as expected, and any Ruiz fight is dull by default, even one like this. While it was highly watchable, I doubt I'd want to sit through it again, and nothing could live up to that conference.

"I am the best. I'm the best heavyweight out there."

[Guest]

Wow, 17 pages, I post and the thread dies!

Anyway, how long will it take this fight to be up as a quality upload, ******* or otherwise? I didn't even see the bit with Toney's ass.

So was there a Ruiz interview then?