Comments Thread For: UFC Officially Announces James Toney Has Signed To Fight

[Schmerzen]

bad for the image of boxing if toney takes a beating.
thats what those mma fanboys want to see, an ex-boxer gets his ass kicked by a mm-gay fighter, they would party all night.
look how pride they are for beating 50 years old ray mercer.
i hope toney studies their dirty tricks and hires a good wrestling trainer, its hard to learn all that with the age of 40 but still..

[Kakutogi-Gumi]

Watch if Toney wins his first fight impressively. All you clown will be like Toney's the **** man, Toney's my main man, I knew Toney was going to do it, or I told you all he was going to do it.

Against Couture....no, not really.

[Kilrain]

Ouch. That will be bad. Toney is a fat, slow, old forty and, not only that, he's a very, very small HW with no legs. There is simply no way possible he can beat any of the contender level MMA guys, let alone anyone really good.

Very bad move by Toney and I hope this is untrue because it will put a stain on his great reputation. He should try to have a couple more boxing fights, maybe even try to get a minor title and then give it all up. He's done as an athlete.

He has already has a minor title, IBA I believe.

I'm a big Toney fan, this is really disappointing. MMA is a completely different sport. Toney is gonna get killed. He's past his prime as a boxer too, I watched his fight with Oquendo on dvd last night, he got a gift and looked terrible.

[Aperion]

Cool.

Nothing new to be learned here. We all know boxers have balls of steel,

but when are we going to ever see an MMA guy step into a boxing ring?

Its happened, years ago Jens Pulver has had 5 or so pro fights and won them all, a few guys on the UFC roster right now have professionally boxed. Arlovski finally had an exhibition bout, Anderson Silva should take a boxing fight at some point, that would be interesting if he made a legit go at boxing, and not this RJJ talked where he'd get creamed.

[Tomasio]

They are getting a Tony way past his prime..

They forgot to mention Ray Mercer as boxer's that fought MMA(way, wayyy past his prime) & it didn't go well for him...James Tony is also way past his prime & to try to learn new tricks & new style of fighting now is kind a hard..Let's see what happens, but if Tony suffers some defeats I hope Dana White & MMA fans don't try to use this as an example to prove that MMA fighters are much better than profesional Boxers....

[the mesiah]

[Kakutogi-Gumi]

James Toney Interested in Fighting Randy Couture, Will Likely Debut on UFC 115 or 116

UFC 115 is on June and is rumored to be headlined by the third bout between TUF 11 coaches, Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz, while UFC 116 which is on July, and is rumored to be the return of the UFC's biggest PPV draw, Brock Lesnar. If Toney's fight indeed pushes through on either date, it looks like he's going to be fighting along side the UFC's biggest stars.

[djsygo]

[Kilrain]

'All day! The fights start standing and that's my comfort zone all day, you heard me. If they think they going to rush me to the ground and think it's going to be easy and I don't know what I'm doing, come on man. I'm a very strong man. I know what I have to do and if they shoot in on me, they getting launched into outer space like a satellite.'

Haha, James has some serious stones

[djsygo]

'All day! The fights start standing and that's my comfort zone all day, you heard me. If they think they going to rush me to the ground and think it's going to be easy and I don't know what I'm doing, come on man. I'm a very strong man. I know what I have to do and if they shoot in on me, they getting launched into outer space like a satellite.'

Haha, James has some serious stones

lol


he better be aware of low kicks tho