Description : Here we have an authentic James Toney signed original 'Showtime' boxing closed circuit fight poster for the heavyweight bout held at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada USA, 4th October 2003.. Lifetime LOA supplied by KOfightposters.com.
Toney, a pudgy 217 pounds after winning his first world title at 157 a dozen years ago, dominated Holyfield. He beat Holyfield to the punch with quicker hands, peppered him with combinations, took the occasional counterpunch without flinching and battered Holyfield, a four-time heavyweight champion, to the body.
Michael Katz, of the New York Times wrote: It was painful to watch one of boxing's great warriors, Evander Holyfield, grow older by the round Saturday night while getting beaten up by James Toney, a former middleweight champion. This was just a hero being brutally outclassed and outpunched.
''I'm sorry I had to do that to him,'' Toney said. ''He's a great fighter, and I have a lot of respect for him.'' Body punches finally put Holyfield down in the ninth round. A left hook to the side, a punch which made Holyfield double up in pain in the sixth round, hurt him in the ninth. Holyfield, a 1984 Olympian, stumbled away and Toney hit him with a lighter hook to the side. Holyfield collapsed. He beat the count of the referee, Jay Nady, but by this time Turner was following the inspector and towel into the ring.
These HBO & Showtime PPV posters are not made available for public consumption & can only be sourced from a participating PPV outlet hence the scarcity as once the televised event if over, then these posters go straight to skip.
Postage: £10.00 Special Delivery... £20.00 International registered signed 4 airmail.