Is Vitali Too Big For Toney To Beat?

[Mr. Violence]

Anyone think that James Toney would sign on to fight Samuel Peter being that Peter has been calling him out recently?

peter would be a good warm up to get ready for vitali

[Brotherfromthehoods]

yeh i think so

[Mr. Violence]

If toney could consistently get on the inside he has a shot.

[mr. bojangles]

If VK can keep him outside, at the end of his left jab...it's gonna be a short night I believe. Just one or a couple of rights will be enough to take the lights out of JT. However, if JT can keep himself close to VK, he can systematically cut him down to size.

[Mr. Violence]

If VK can keep him outside, at the end of his left jab...it's gonna be a short night I believe. Just one or a couple of rights will be enough to take the lights out of JT. However, if JT can keep himself close to VK, he can systematically cut him down to size.

yes I can see it going either way like that. it will also depend if toney can take a shot to the chin from a man that big.

[Nautilus]

If VK can keep him outside, at the end of his left jab...it's gonna be a short night I believe. Just one or a couple of rights will be enough to take the lights out of JT. However, if JT can keep himself close to VK, he can systematically cut him down to size.

JT does not really have a history of being knocked out so easily

[Nautilus]

yes I can see it going either way like that. it will also depend if toney can take a shot to the chin from a man that big.

JT will not have the power to KO Vitaliy. He could not even KO some Booker guy.

The only way JT could possibly win is by taking the decision.

[Mr. Violence]

JT will not have the power to KO Vitaliy. He could not even KO some Booker guy.

The only way JT could possibly win is by taking the decision.

it certainly appears that way

[dempseyfire]

The question isn't size (and Carnera and Williard were slightly shorter but "bigger" then Vitali) but weight and age. Toney is 36, has had a long career, and isn't a natural HW (at fighting weight). If this was Toney at 30 years old and he weighed 210, he;d destroy Vitali. But he's old and has had a couple of serious injuries so who knows what Toney shows up . . .

[scramwarrior]

I have always felt that no heavyweight today could have given Lennox Lewis the fight that VK did. Toney would have been completely destroyed by Lewis. It's not written in stone, but I think this has validation that VK just has more clout than Toney and would probably whoop him on par with what he did to Kirk Johnson.