CONTROVERSIAL BOXING DECISIONS FREE FIGHT | James Toney vs Mike McCallum 1 | U Score the Fight 

In my opinion, this fight is quite possibly the greatest display of elite level ring IQ and technical skills in boxing history - put on by two of the most complete boxers I have ever seen. How I wish we got to see McCallum fight the Four Kings, maybe then he would have got the flowers he deserved. James Toney is one of the most naturally gifted fighters ever. Both legends of the sport!

This is the type of fight where it’s so engrossing that you don’t notice time going by.

McCallum was extremely underrated, by the public anyway! Tremendous fighter.

This fight is the perfect combination of technical skill and aggression.

Even though I had Toney by a slim margin, nobody can be disappointed by that result. Two ATG legends that offered one of the best fights of the 90s !

My favourite fight and watched it dozens of times for the mastery of the sweet but brutal science of boxing..From when I watched this when it happened to now I’ve always had Toney edging it, the fight was even up until the last round where Toney was the more affective aggressor. It’s only in the slow motion moments that you appreciate how subtle the boxing is, McCallum with his busier jab and body punches and Toney with his left hooks (Which I believe won him the fight, McCallums swelling under his right eye was evidence of this) and big right hands. James Toney is one of my favourites (Along with Hearns, Chavez, Hagler and Sanchez) from when I started watching boxing form the early eighties. But I’ve always admired Mike McCallum because he was a real throwback to the golden era. The amazing achievement is that he is 35 years old in this fight and must of had to boil down a bit to make weight (Toney was always notorious for this) yet his conditioning was unbelievable. The great thing is they fought two more times, their styles complemented each other so their fights were always going to be close and controversial. Many Thanks🥊

One of the greatest skilled fights you'll ever see by both fighters, two legends of the game. McCallum vs Toney ended up having 3 fights. Tony in his prime at 23 & McCallum at 35 in the end of his career & put on a masterclass from Rd 1 to 12.

Think we can say that as Toneys physique/training faded his skill grew. Wish they worked in harmony longer. My top 3 fav fighters.

Have a hard time finding a fight that featured more actual SKILL than this one. I thought Toney won, but he's my favorite fighter of all time, so I am definitely biased.

This era of middleweights was phanominal I was just a baby but watching this and seeing a prime James tony and experience Macellem brings smile to my face 🙂

Donald in the cut chillin.

Marv, I know you're no longer here, but you fought enough Philly fighters to know that it is called the Philly Shoulder Roll.

Best technical fight in the history of boxing, ever.

Both great fighters imagine if mccallum was 10 years younger in this fight 😮

These dudes would destroy canelo

My only way to score the fight : GREAT !

This is a must watch for all boxing students. This matche goes far beyond boxing 101, this is as good as it gets.

Personally had it 116-112 Toney Can even see a draw, maybe, but McCallum winning the fight? nah no way.

Tony won, but the draw isn’t shocking. Great fight between 2 greats 🥊

Both of them are indeed very very good. Tough they are. Toney scored more stronger hits, Mc did more jabbing and sometimes hard hits. Kudos to the two of them. I enjoyed really in watching them. . .

Good fight and Marvelous on the commentary. What's not to like

Watching this in 2023, I can't wrap my head around Toney being so slim....

I remember watching this fight live on PPV with Marvin Hagler commentating. McCallum gave up his title belt to make the fight happen therefore, in my mind it was a unification bout. I knew McCallum was tough as hell and should never be underestimated yet Toney had everything going for him after knocking out Michael Nunn and I remember saying he is nuts for going after McCallum with his experience. This fight was so close, and a draw was justified. I had McCallum outboxing toney for the most part but Toney took over rounds with his killer instinct and at times really threatened to Knock McCallum out. Toney fought like he didn't know how to lose, and McCallum fought in a way that was to teach the upstart about the sweet science. Great fight!

I had james Toney winning this fight 116 -112 he was throwing and landing the harder punches and had Mike McMullen hurt a few times this was a great fight skill wise but I think Mike McMullen didn't have enough on his punches to hurt james Toney

Beautiful! Top class boxing! Thanks for the video, TOP RANK BOXING

Chiseled James Toney is a mythical fighter I never thought I'd see

The highest skilled contest in the history of sports.

Great fight! James Toney should have gotten the nod. Close fight though.

I think it should have been scored for Toney by a split decision. He edged many of those rounds.

I love how you neve see Smoger

Remember the age difference. McCallum is 11 1/2 years older.

Giving away 12 years ...come on man the body snatcher was off the scale .....

Great Fight, BUT....Reverse the ages. Put McCallum in at 23, and Toney at 35. McCallum wins easily. McCallum is one of the most underrated fighters in his weight class I've ever seen. I'm not a huge fan of either. McCallum knew his best weight was 154, and he was smart to stay at that weight for most of his career

Great, competitive fight between two high level skilled fighters.

Beautiful beautiful boxing. I can watch this a billion times.

Old man Mike McCallum was so good

Too close to call but I think a younger body snatcher (McCallum) beats Toney by UD

I remember watching it live and I thought Toney won. Mike was an alltime great although I didnt like him for a while because he beat my favorite fighter Donald Curry! But this was one fight I think he legitimately lost.

Hey there's Trump...Hey Don...

This was boxing back then, james Toney 12 yrs younger, M McCallum was a tough man, he was no walk in the park period.James Toney was a young up and coming great young fighter, 35 yr old M McCullum, i'm not going anywhere, i'll be here all 36 minutes, what a fight.

なんだこの試合、現代レベルでも最高峰な試合やん

James Toney or the black Marlon Brando as I call him (look at that face) put on a clinic here against a guy in Mike McCallum who.... put on a clinic here! This might be one of the most fascinating fights of all time!!! 5:25 is a beautiful few seconds but that's just one of a hundred amazing sequences of counters and step offs and counters to the counters of the counters and the lead straight right then hook and counter uppercut.... This is fantastic for real fans of the art!!

That commentators with Hagler were very bias. Hagler kept it unbiased. I say win for Toney or a draw

Great fight. McCallum was one tough guy for 30 years old and in there with a prime MW Toney. I believe Toney won pretty damn convincingly tho. Hagler commentating dropping some good knowledge.

These 2 fighters are great at The sweat science what Skill this is where you see The skill level of chess boxing Is apparent like no other sport

Both of these guys a fighting genius’s

When young people look at basketball players from the 80’s and say they couldn’t play with todays players, they would have to make the exact opposite assessment when watching fights like this from these two. No fighter today has this elite level of skill. No fighter today could compete with either of these two.

Commentary is typically biased. Toney was doing well but he missed a lot where the idiot commentators screamed how he’s landing rights. He landed plenty yet McCallum was a deceiving boxer with a great defensive skillsets. He rolls and pulls just enough that many punches are only glancing. Mike was much busier the whole fight constantly throwing double even triple jabs yet the lip service was all about Toney’s big rights. Marvin was lucky McCallum was a light middleweight. 10th round and the idiots once again exaggerate Toney’s barrage of misses but talk like he’s landing. No mention of Mike out striking him once again. Toney was landing well but not as stated by the idiots. Don’t get me wrong I love Toney to this day, he’s one bad man. One of my favorites all time. But Mr. McCallum was a special fighter. Dodged by several boxers of his day even when he was past his prime as he is here. 35 vs. 23 yet Mike took everything Toney landed and went the distance. In his prime Mike was a destroyer.

Great Fight by two Master craftsmen. McCallum is one of my favorites and was very avoided. Mike was 35 years old, past his prime and fought this well.

The 2 blind mice callin this were a joke...

3:19 is that trump?

I think Toney - McCallum 1 won Toney but judges give draw.... And Toney -McCallum 2 was draw but judges give Toney win. I don't understand them.

Buffer’s hair is on point

the defense of this fight is genius

Great fight.

This is actually the greatest fight of all time

Bill Miller vs Eddie Futch

What year was this fight?

mcCallum a great fighter Toney too, this fight is one of the most beautiful technically, defensively and tactically, both of them showed great ring IQ and skills

Y’all don’t see Donald trump in the audience 😂

high level boxing on display

Both are great fighters. In how they are able to move when hooks are coming down on their body or head. They just move with the punch and slip that punch . Perfect timing . I must agree with the judges. It was a draw. Boxer Tony was behind on the score cards, He redeemed his self. There should be a re-match . I don't know if they ever had a re-match.

Toney did enough to win imo.

13:34 mark Trump sitting along side a blond woman in black. Could be his wife. Toney strong to the end, yet the accuracy was less in the late rounds. McCallum a lot more touches throughout the fight, yet Toney weighed in with the most heavy blows - by far. Mike made the fight with the jabbing and proximity. Toney didn't have to go and find him, he was there jabbing his way to points. That left at around 1:20 of the last round rocked Mike to the bone, yet he managed to keep his balance and slipped a few, yet continued to toke more punishment. Both on fumes, but Toney's best round for sure. I feel a draw is in order. Can't give it Toney, wasn't busy enough and can't give to Mike either, because he didn't do enough to beat Toney

My does mccallum look like Bill Cosby in that picture at the beginning

Definitely a draw, I had it 6 rounds each

Great high iq fight from both fighters. Toney was landing vicious right hands but McCallum was having a great pace. Toney won a close one here imo.

This is the fight where Tony begins going from good to great.

I remembered that fight clearly "youthfulness" beat McCallum.

LEGENDS

James Toney was handed several gift decisions when he was undefeated as the boxing powers wanted to keep his record intact !!!###

TEO NEEDS TO STUDY TONEY CLOSELY

Toney boxed better half knocked out than most fully conscious. McCallum also was a worthy dancing partner for any top fighter.

I really enjoyed watching 👀 this boxing fight (Toney (23) vs McCullum (35)). Give credit to the referee he was jumping and moving around in that ring throughout the whole fight. In the very first round I really thought Mike McCullum owed James Toney some money 💰 🤑 💸💲 💵 the way he started throwing powerful powerful punches 👊 👊 🤜 🤛 ✊️ 👊 ✊️ 🤛 🤜 from the start. This definitely could've been the fight of that year.

Toney should win by split dec.he wins the 12 round

Whoa. This was a good fight .

Wow what a treat ! Thank yum top ranks 🙌❤️

That fight wasn't a draw. James Toney won the fight!

I remember this fight like it was yesterday 🥊 Lights out Toney vs The Body snatcher McCallum 🥊

3:14 Trump with the white rope across his eyes.

How can this fight be a draw, or even a split decision. James Toney won outright and the referee nearly stopped it in the last second of the 12th round because McCallum was in such bad shape, taking damaging punishment

Prime Body snatcher takes out Toney easy. Mike one of the most under appreciated boxer ever. He was Jamaican and they never made him big like Hagler and Hearns.

Don't really see the controversy, a lot of close rounds, a draw seems about right.

A great fight between two elite level fighters who were boxing technicians..... this was not a controversial decision.... I don't think that macallum did enough to get the decision and I don't think that Toney deserved to lose.....a draw was a good result for both fighters...

The draw was unfair fir Toney. He deserved the victory

This says James was 5 11 which was believable because it goes along with his 75 inch reach. He was listed as 5 9 towards the end if his career. Im guessing its because he gained so much weight? And how great of a coach was Bill Miller.

Toney has delivered more hard punches! McCallum with plenty of jabs & jabs.

Except for Hagler the commentators were so biased against McCallum it was unbelievable. Among other deliberate ugliness that they have mentioned furing the bout how could they say that James won rounds 9, 10, & 11 . When we it was so obvious for others watched the fight to see Tony loosing all three , he Tony was missing so mush if his shots of desperatiin while being countered by Mike . This disappointment the gave for mike not having a history of knocking out opponents in the division showed that they were not prepared to accept that Macallum could out box Tony and get the fight sadly and so did two of the Judges . They ascwell as most people who followed bixing that Mike was not the kind of fighter so it should not have been expected . Now lets go back and look at Toney's face from the 8th round onwords he knew he was loosing the fight and at the 10th he knew he had lost the fight if he didnt knock out Mike in the 11th. and he failed at this . Look at Tony's wild punches at the beginning of the 11th this showed how he felt about his chances of winning they were now very slim for the fight was not to have gone this far he was as tired as Mike and he was nuch younger , he Toneyv had to get this knock down, if not the knockout . We see Tony missing so much in the 12th round . Macallum didn't do much in the round not because he was exhausted but also because Tony was not fighting any more but was swinging desperately trying get Mike to the floor Toney lost it was too obvious . I guess Hagler must have been embarrassed to have sat there with these insult to boxing calling themselves professional commentators.

Toney listed at 5ft 11.5.......he's actually around 5 ft 9

Toney fought any and everybody! Didn't duck no one.

HUGE ROBBERY, Tony should've won. I only saw McCallum winning round 1 and 9.

The Cagiest vs the Most Complete

Toney won!

High IQ battle

Toney der Klare Sieger da sitzen die Punkte Richter und sind voll von der Rolle!!

I THOUGHT J "LIGHTS OUT" T WON THIS FIGHT.

Damn I thought the way Toney finished the fight he won but great fight the parrying the jabs, slips , great jabs , great right hands . McCollum had more iq but tank wasn’t a good as Toneys. Toney landed harder right hands but mcculum was throwing them right back . Toney finished the fight way better tho

toney is one of the best underrated boxers we ever had mad respect on toney great fight but i just wanted to say we hear about ali mike roy holy george sunny frazier the list goes on but toney is the underrated best fighter that i wish his name where mentioned a bit more. toney was a dog. frazier was a dog. bud is a dog xd mike was a dog but i think he couldnt control his emotions. deadly tho. but toney unique style was amazing. theres a bit if frazier and mike in toney.

Roy Jones!

Great fight! Toney definitely won, the guy at the end kinda pissed me off to hear 🤣