Why did James Toney get so lazy?

[SlySlickSmooth]

He's a dumbass, is the short answer. Like Odlanier Solis, he squandered his talent, thought he did far more than Solis did as a professional.

His lack of attention to his health finally caught up to him, and when he moved to HW he started to take too many hard punches to the head, and now he's punch drunk and can't get a fight with anybody.

Saddest thing is, his body is too big for his style..

[PurePugilist216]

He loved food, and there were rumors he has a real eating disorder

He’s my favorite fighter of all time to, and I think ranks right behind Roy for best of his era, even though I think his resume is better then Roy’s and B-Hop

[Joey_Torreo]

I loved James toney. One of my forites and one do the fighters I first starte watchiń when I got into boxing. I hate seeing Him in the state that he Is in now.

[thuggery]

Respekt.......

[cupocity303]

Speaking of Toney and Hopkins, start at 8:07 and see what B-Hop thinks about fighters who fall off the top:

http://********/OcFX5KebCiI?t=8m7s


Very revealing. He may as well be talking about Toney.

[SlySlickSmooth]

:smileysex

Speaking of Toney and Hopkins, start at 8:07 and see what B-Hop think on fighters who fall of the top:

http://********/OcFX5KebCiI?t=8m7s


Very revealing. He may as well be talking about Toney.

Interesting, I would agree if he were to be talking about Toney. **** man, Toney wasn't the most mobile, but it was a beauty to watch him counter.

[fish262]

I remember he was in terrible shape before the Jones fight, he was eating fast food and had to drop a heap of weight in the last week before the fight. Cant remember how much it was but it was fair bit, defiently hindered his performance. And that was a huge super fight at the time and he didnt take it serious lol.

There is a writting interview on him somewhere, he calims had he taken that fight with jones serious and dropped the weight properly, he would of got the W and his hole career would of been different (i.e. he would of been the superstar Jones was)

[ToyBulldog]

Toney was ace back in his prime. His fights with McCallum are amazing. And his fight with Nunn, crazy. He was just young, rich and talented and got sidetracked. Happens to a lot of athletes. I'm surprised Jones took as long as he did to fall off.

Some people just have more discipline.

[hectari]

James Toney was actually a football star in high school he almost got a scholarship to Michigan state until he knocked out or got in a fight with Deion Sanders during a scouting trip, he only picked up boxing later on, but in highschool he was always watching those old boxing taps in his spare time and would mimic the moves and stuff and shadow box, his story is pretty cool he had a good boxing iq though, to learn from watching old fights and basically teach yourself is amazing and it actually working.

Toney said before he got into boxing, he was a 190-200 pound running back or something like that, he was pretty big, but his coach told him to cut down to 160 to box.

I think cutting so much weight and gaining it back again will mess with your hormones and make them go out of wack, thats probably why he has thyroid issues, Fernando Vargas has those issues too, but at least now he is able to stay in a healthier weight instead of going up to 250 pounds.

[thuggery]

he stop using steriods.

Apparently no one cares that he used steroids. He's been given a pass somehow.