Often times when the teacher is teaching the lesson the student does not understand before it is too late. That would have been the case in James Toney vs David Benavidez.
David Benavidez is an entertaining fighter in today’s times and a three-weight world champion.
From super-middleweight to cruiserweight he has become a champion in the sport, has the man from Arizona.
Sure.
But one of those titles at 175 pounds light-heavyweight was basically gifted to him, he never win it outright and properly.
He throws many punches in bunches and lots of combinations that spectators enjoy watching.
He does not mind taking two punches to land one of his own.
That style has made him entertaining to watch.
Sure.
Although he is still undefeated fellow American James ‘Lights Out’ Toney from Grand Rapids Michigan had a bad style for him.
Toney when he was in shape and motivated was a very difficult — almost impossible to break down boxer.
His defense was razor tight and anything that did get through often was never clean when it landed.
And partially defelcted by Toney or parried on his gloves as well.
Toney had an incredible chin too so anything that got through never knocked him down hardly or knocked him out.
Roy Jones dropped Toney with a surprise left-hook once though on November 18th in 1994.
In a battle at super-middleweight that saw him lose by UD on points in Vegas that night.
Toney had fast hands as well and was a champion at middleweight, super-middleweight and cruiserweight — as a three-time champion in total.
But Toney competed and often won at heavyweight as well. Do not forget that.
Toney TKO’d former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in their fight back in 2003.
James Toney was 77-3-2NC-47 KO as a professional boxer.
David Benavidez is currently 32-0-26 KO.
Benavidez gets hit far too often and Toney had way too fast hands for him, was way to slick for him, way too tough for him.
Toney had way too much experience as a professional fighter for him.
Toney would have boxed the head off him and taunted him mid fight and danced circles around him.
Laughing at him as he bust him up and then knocked him out when he wanted to.
Teaching him a lesson in the process on the science of boxing.
The sweet science of boxing that is.
It would have been a professor toying with a high school science student in there.
It would have been a tank running over a Toyota car in there.
It would have been an elite-level professional hitman marine in there with a some bum nobody night club bouncer.
James Toney is a ten times tougher man than David Benavidez.
James Toney is ten times a better boxer than David Benavidez.
Boxer James Toney is a ten times better fighter than Arizona all-action slugger David Benavidez.
No contest.
That’s the truth of it.
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