Toney was the most defensively skilled fighter of his generation - Sorry Floyd - and was never hurt in a fight, not until Samuel Peter permanently damaged Toney's inner ear via the rabbit punch in their first fight (That destroyed Toney's equilibrium and his last fights are hard to watch). Toney feared no one. If you want to get a real sense of how brilliant his counter-punching and infighting was, watch the Jirov fight at half speed. That way you'll be able to pick up all the subtle shifts and rolls he makes. At real speed, it seems that he's getting pounded but on slow motion you really notice how few punches actually score on him. And he was deadly accurate.
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Toney was the most defensively skilled fighter of his generation - Sorry Floyd - and was never hurt in a fight, not until Samuel Peter permanently damaged Toney's inner ear via the rabbit punch in their first fight (That destroyed Toney's equilibrium and his last fights are hard to watch). Toney feared no one. If you want to get a real sense of how brilliant his counter-punching and infighting was, watch the Jirov fight at half speed. That way you'll be able to pick up all the subtle shifts and rolls he makes. At real speed, it seems that he's getting pounded but on slow motion you really notice how few punches actually score on him. And he was deadly accurate.
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