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The two men may have been separated by time, weight divisions and fighting level yet it would be fair to say that Eddie has proven to be the most difficult opponent of James’ career. Toney found himself standing across the ring from Eddie on no fewer than four occasions. Eddie took Montell Griffin to two wins over Toney as well as guiding Mike McCallum through two fights that many, not this writer, felt should have seen Toney lose his ‘0’ prematurely. In fact it could be argued that Eddie laid out the programme for beating Toney. This is the story, as I see it, of James Toney, the trash talker supreme, versus Eddie Futch, the gentlemanly trainer of Champions. [details]
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Those fights with Griffen were black marks on the sport.
Toney clearly won both of those fights. The first was close, the 2nd was not.Comment
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Griffin might have 'won' those fights but everyone not sitting at the judges' table, it was clear that Toney had won a large majority of the rounds. Interesting point about moving to the right of Toney although he always he handled southpaws well.
The first McCallum fight also seemed to be a clear Toney W. 90% of the big shots were landed by Toney. In the second fight, McCallum wanted no part of Toney inside and spent the entire fight jabbing and back away.
Really it seems that the best way to do well against Toney is to give him a lot of movement and ride that bicycle backward although that style won't win too many fans.
As far as the Jones fight goes, if Toney hadn't needed to lose about eighty pounds in the two months before the fight, well...Roy might have won anyway but it would have been much more interesting.
Sherry Toney told me that right before the second McCallum fight, Futch told Toney that he'd trained his dad. That's a real trainer - anything to get his fighter an edge.Comment
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Let’s not forget Futch trained 2 fighters to beat Ali and trained Griffin to give Roy Jones hell before the dq.Comment
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