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How do we see a middleweight tussle between these two?

It'd maybe be an ugly one.
Toney was the better fighter, think most would agree
but would Eubanks style give him problems?

I think the one thing we will all agree on....it goes the 12 round distance

Mach I always wanted to watch. Tooney was certainly better boxer but Eubank is very tough and inconvenient, it would be a great fight t.

Yes, there was talk about it at the time. It would have been a cracker

Yea it goes 12 rounds. Toney out works him...but effectively out works him with pressure. Toney would slip the haymakers from the outside, like he did with "some" of Jones weird outside punches. Toney gets in close, works away and wins. I don't see Eubank hurting Toney. Great fight though, hopefully not ugly.

Being around there was no talk.

Early on CE snr went the wbo route.he always steered the conversation away from toney or nunn and than rjj.

There was that time on the Jonathan Ross show but that was forced on him...

It was a different era when some of the best brits had an aura of nervousness about the absolute top Americans....honeyghan and Lennox Lewis were the exceptions

Bricks wrote:Being around there was no talk.

Early on CE snr went the wbo route.he always steered the conversation away from toney or nunn and than rjj.

There was that time on the Jonathan Ross show but that was forced on him...

It was a different era when some of the best brits had an aura of nervousness about the absolute top Americans....honeyghan and Lennox Lewis were the exceptions

yeah remember that time well, fortunately for the brits we had enough good fighters over here to keep things "in house" so to speak, and probably earned more money that way also

Bricks wrote:Being around there was no talk.

Early on CE snr went the wbo route.he always steered the conversation away from toney or nunn and than rjj.

There was that time on the Jonathan Ross show but that was forced on him...

It was a different era when some of the best brits had an aura of nervousness about the absolute top Americans....honeyghan and Lennox Lewis were the exceptions

Odd you should say that. Nigel Ben operated stateside for a long spell, fought Barkley and Dewitt, then of course brought the Gman over here
Collins fought his early career over in America and faced McCallum (not actually american of course) and Reggie Johnson over there.
Eubank started his career in America
Herol Graham fought his fair share of American based fighters

I appreciate there are plenty great american names there that they didn't face but when you have Benn, Eubank, Graham, Watson, Pyatt, Piper, Wharton and latterly Calzaghe, Reid, Woodhall, Catley, there's a deep enough talent pool to justify staying at home. But there were no shortage of fights involving these guys either in America or against American fighters

The top names, RJJ, Nunn, Toney? No but then the exact same accusation could be levelled at those American fighters. Why the reluctance to travel to UK, why not fight more Brittish fighters when there was so much talent across the pond?

I wouldn't make that accusation however, as the USA fighter had the exact same reasons, there was enough talent in their homeland, that there was no real reason to make the journey