Boxing Legend Freddie Roach: MMA Is Using James Toney!

elie seckbach reporting

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• elie seckbach
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• james toney
• mma
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• josh moore

[powerhousephg]

i think it was a mutual use/use relationship.

[MrAdidas1980]

@chuck2112ify: Hes talking about Mike Tyson & the guy (the basketball guy mentioned) who fought Lennox & started to cry & wouldnt fight, he started crying in his corner & refused to fight Lewis. He's not talking about MMA would bite, he's saying Toney might bite or cry after he gets a taste of MMA!!! Thats what I got from it anyway!

[layyah0905]

@Bladerunner55217 Yes,boxing is not run as a sport with the amateur and school programmes non existant globally,too many belts and organisations and dubious promoters..MMA has done the opposite and the UFC collective focus is scary-their world is moving so fast with a constant stream of new champions,skills and developments plus being maybe the most fancentric sport on earth with extensive,mutli media outreach as well as some of the most accessible athletes on earth-boxing take note!

[Bladerunner55217]

@layyah0905 The biggest threat to boxing is boxing. Aka the ones governing boxing. But I still love boxing to the fullest and stay away from watching hbo boxing and dela hoya's mexican against very bad mexican bouts lol.

[layyah0905]

Boxing is no threat to MMA.The biggest threat to boxing and many other sports worldwide is soccer-for some reason the passion and hysteria for soccer is unmatched-people give their lives for this sport.i attended a world cup match last year and its like religious devotion.Boca Juniors used to play in front of 150000 at times!Part of it is due to media hype where tv and papers which afford more column inches/time to soccer.Boxing and other sports are left in the dark.

[bazellheather]

@chuck2112ify atleast hes not a boxing lol silly basketball players

[chuck2112ify]

kicking and biting? who bites in mma. I like Freddie Roach but these guys are talking out of their ass.

[loooooojason]

@Immortalsyn83 yes now we r both speaking the same language. as u said both r at a disvantage in other sports coz they are not trained that way nor are they conditioned for it. i box with kickboxers and mma fighters as long as we keep the same rule. i once tried kickboxing with one of them (since i did a kicking sport many years ago - something like TKD), but still it was just another completely different sport! it has been an interesting debate so far. peace.

[Immortalsyn83]

scared*

[Immortalsyn83]

@loooooojason I doubt any boxer is scared of a fighter just like know fighter is cared of a boxer. it's just a different world as you said. To be a top boxer it's pretty much a life long devotion to that sport to succeed at the elite levels. I am fans of both sports & I know how much a boxer sacrifices to be the best of his craft. While a boxer spends all this time improving his boxing talent a fighter is perfecting his overall game which is why both are at a disadvantage in the others sport.