Not really. It was pretty much even with neither man landing anything solid in the first two rounds, but Toney landed some good shots in the third. Rahman made a good point afterwards about that though. He said how many right hands did Toney land before the cut? None. He said it was only after the cut that Toney started landing, which was true.overhand_right wrote:According to several americans, this was a good sharp performance and Toney was beating Rahman up, Rahmanhappy for the way 'out'.
Whether he was looking for a way out or not is another argument. To me it was a fairly bad cut, but not one which warranted the fight being stopped and that was basically the argument of the officials in regards to the ruling as well. They said that the cut didn't warrant the fight being stopped, so when Rahman said he couldn't see it was determined that he quit.
Neither one of these guy's is the answer to the heavyweight divisions mess though, which we all know anyway. Toney still has all the ring savvy in the world, but he's just to fat, slow and old these days. Even at his lowest weight since the Holyfield fight his gut was hanging out.
