Muhammad Ali in his prime wasn’t going to beat Randy Couture Saturday night… so a flabby, way past his prime James Toney had no shot whatsoever. Not fighting MMA rules, he didn’t. Again, this proves nothing at all. We’re talking about different sports completely. It would be like asking Albert Pujols to beat Kobe Bryant in a game of one on one. Never going to happen. Toney’s only shot was to land a bomb standing up and there was no chance of that happening because there was no way that fight wasn’t going to the ground. Especially after Couture took him down with that junior varsity single leg.

Photos: Randy "The Natural" Couture

Photos: James "Lights Out" Toney

8 months in the gym, training for MMA and he couldn’t defend that move? What was he working on that whole time? And my man, I get that it was a payday and you have no where else to go to get that kind of scratch and no one expected you to win. But we did expect you to show up in shape. I mean, you do understand that it was MMA and not M & M’s right? UFC, not KFC, right. Look, it was a freak show and I’ll admit it, I got suckered in. But it didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know. There is no MMA -boxing debate, the guy who gets to fight by his rules is going to win every time. Because even at 42, there isn’t an MMA’er Toney couldn’t beat if he got to stand on his feet for 12 rounds and trade.