I think interviews like that are why Randy is fighting Toney and not someone else. Randy is the sort of guy who has the ability to pull some die hard boxing fans into paying attention to MMA. He did a great job of stating boxers talk a lot without saying that MMA > Boxing.
Call me crazy but I think toney will have some tricks in his bags and will pull the upset. Randy is the man and will not take the ***** way out. He will stand with james toney.
James Toney is a fool and my guess is he will gas before the end of the 1st round....if he even gets to the end of the 1st round.
Randy is gonna win this one easy. Cant wait to see the vBookie odds.
P.S - Everyone say thanks to KryOnicle cos i had to rep nearly everyone in this thread so i could leave him some +rep for saying pretty much what i was thinking in this thread.
One of the things that Toney needs to worry about while standing is the clinch. It is completely different in MMA than it is in boxing. The ref will not seperate them, there is elbows and knees, the cage will definitely come into play as well as takedowns from the clinch.
I am interested to see if Couture throws any kicks as well. While Toney may be training with kicks when he is working on his striking now, he has never really had to deal with them while fighting.
I somehow see this fight going the same way as Couture vs Coleman. Randy's gonna beat him up in the clinch with dirty boxing, get him down, GNP and and finish with a choke. Ofcourse, in that fight Randy was also outboxing Coleman which won't happen against Toney.
You never know. Toney is going to have to deal with the cage which is going to be much different than navigating around a ring, smaller gloves which is going to force him to defend himself differently, and the kicks could present a problem for Toney as well.
I am not saying that Couture will or will not outstrike Toney, I am just saying that the differences between boxing and MMA make it a real possibility that Couture could infact end up outstriking Toney.
How can you not like this guy, especially after Toney's interview with Ariel?
Randy by rear-naked choke.
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