Boxing and MMA are different sports. Couture is a great fighter who won easily under MMA rules. Toney used to be a great boxer who would win easily under boxing rules. Read what Couture himself had to say after the fight:
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To his credit, Couture did not look upon his victory as proof that a mixed martial artist could defeat a boxer. What it proved was that because you were once dominant in one sport, as Toney had been for most of his career in boxing, it does not mean you can step into another man’s arena and win a fight.
Sitting at ringside was Toney’s long-time boxing promoter, Dan Goossen. Last week Goossen issued a challenge to Couture that if he won last night at the Garden he should then come forward and step into Toney’s arena and box him.
Asked about that after the fight, Couture showed the difference between a college education and a graduate degree from the School of Hard Knocks, which is where Toney was educated.
“I would respectfully decline such an offer,’’ the 47-year-old Oklahoma State graduate said. “It would be about as silly as James coming in here. If I did it, I think it would go pretty much the same way. I’d probably get knocked out in the first round. It’s crazy to think because you’re a world champion you can just come and cross over into another sport. ’’
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Couture is right, and shows that he is more mature about this subject than most MMA fans.
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/...toney_no_leg_to_stand_on/srvc=home&position=1
