OPEN LETTER FROM JAMES “LIGHTS OUT” TONEY

Posted on | September 10, 2011 | No Comments

After watching the Haye/Klitschko fight I have decided to focus more on my boxing career. The only reason that my team and I accepted the MMA fight against Ken Shamrock is that the fighters rated in the top ten or twenty don’t want to fight me. I will not bow down to the politics of boxing. I’ve got 82 professional fights. I still love to fight and I’m in the gym every day. No one can show me where I was beat-up in a fight. Those writing negative comments about me can kiss my a_ _! People talk about how I look, but I can fight. I don’t run from my opponent’s. People run their mouths about my weight, but if you check my weight for the heavyweight division it’s about the same except for my last fight. It’s like my Pops said, “The day I get my ass beat, it’s time to stop fighting.

That fight on Saturday was ridiculous. Nobody wanted to engage in physical contact. At some point in time I will take an MMA fight, but right now I’ve got a mission to accomplish. I will defend my World Championship IBA belt and I am gunning for the WBA,WBC,WBO and IBF belts as well. I’m not going anywhere.

James “Lights Out” Toney