James Toney blasts Canelo Alvarez comparisons

James Toney, the legendary champion who won belts successful 4 antithetic categories during his career, showed again that his lingua is nary quieter than his hands utilized to be. The celebrated 55-year-old, who has been retired for years, reacted fiercely to comparisons with Mexican prima Canelo Alvarez.

The Mexican boxer is preparing to combat Terence Crawford connected September 13 successful Las Vegas, a lucifer that galore see 1 of the biggest of his career. But Toney sees thing peculiar successful the information that Alvarez has won titles successful 4 antithetic divisions and done astir 70 nonrecreational fights.

"We springiness that Canelo excessively overmuch attention. When you look astatine who his opponents are, they're each fighters smaller than him, oregon fighters who are already spent, past their prime. You can't comparison that ******** guy to me, man. I've fought the champion successful their prime. I don't adjacent privation to speech astir him due to the fact that it annoys me," Toney told Mill City Boxing.

Toney doesn't mince words for Alvarez

The legendary erstwhile champion went 1 measurement further, leaving nary country for uncertainty arsenic to what helium thinks astir the eventual match.

"If he's got the balls, I tin travel close backmost retired of status and I'll bushed him up. Seriously, I'd bushed him up. He has nary accidental against me. He tin beryllium knocked out, it's thing special. He's not James Toney. He's not successful my league, helium can't adjacent transportation my bags. Stop comparing him to maine due to the fact that that makes nary sense. I'd destruct him."

Toney ended his nonrecreational vocation successful 2017 with a triumph against Mike Sheppard. He concisely returned to the ringing successful 2023 successful an accumulation lucifer successful Jamaica against Donovan "Razorp" Ruddock, which ended successful a draw.

Although his champion days are over, it seems that his warring tone has not weakened astatine all. Unlike Alvarez, whom galore impeach of choosing his opponents carefully, Toney recalls that helium built his vocation against the strongest, without calculations.

For him, the Mexican prima remains conscionable "the pompous prevarication of modern boxing."