As someone who's only seen his fight with Holyfield...

**SalvaDominicano** · 01-06-2005, 10:35 AM

hmm... byrd might be able to box him cuz toney does bad against people who outwork him. but then again, toney can surprise us by takin it to byrd.

**guru** · 01-06-2005, 10:50 AM

toney will be very competitive at heavy cause of his skills, but (like byrd) he'll struggle to beat the top guys cause of his size...

**Mr. Ryan** · 01-06-2005, 01:43 PM

Originally posted by cheech306

hmm... byrd might be able to box him cuz toney does bad against people who outwork him. but then again, toney can surprise us by takin it to byrd.

On the contrary, Toney is the more experienced and skillful boxer. I think Toney will make Byrd be the aggressor, throw Byrd out of his gameplan, and Toney will dominate the action.

**AJ53** · 01-06-2005, 02:55 PM

Originally posted by asian_sensation

On the contrary, Toney is the more experienced and skillful boxer. I think Toney will make Byrd be the aggressor, throw Byrd out of his gameplan, and Toney will dominate the action.

totally agree!! his easiest h/w title fight would be against byrd another former middlewieght.
toney's skills are very good as he showed against jirov and holyfield.

**tri4ben2** · 01-07-2005, 08:55 AM

Holyfield actually made Toney look better than he is. His fight with Jirov is an indicatoir of his style, but he will not be able to do that against heavyweights.

My guess is that Toney wouldn't mind stinking up the joint agaisnt a bigger man the same way Byrd used to do.

**Dark Destroyer** · 01-07-2005, 10:06 AM

Originally posted by asian_sensation

On the contrary, Toney is the more experienced and skillful boxer. I think Toney will make Byrd be the aggressor, throw Byrd out of his gameplan, and Toney will dominate the action.

Good analysis. James Toney is a awesome boxer, i'm shocked you missed the Jirov fight Anorak.

**aztec13** · 01-07-2005, 11:49 AM

Toney has a pretty good defense he can make you miss and make you pay for it. But as far as power at the heavyweight level can't really say cause holyfield is way out of his primes and against booker, booker went down but Toney couldn't put him away(got injured). Against Byrd I see Byrd winning by UD just for the fact Toney hasn't really been test against a top 10 heavyweight maybe we'll see in his next fight.

**Sir_Jose** · 01-07-2005, 03:19 PM

I'd make him a favorite over both Byrd and Ruiz, but Vitali is just way to big for him

**Pno** · 01-08-2005, 06:10 PM

Toney vs Byrd?

I'd say Don King wins..

As someone who's only seen his fight with Holyfield...