{"id":5888,"date":"2010-03-03T19:29:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T02:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=5888"},"modified":"2010-03-03T19:29:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T02:29:17","slug":"james-lights-out-toney-signs-multi-fight-deal-with-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=5888","title":{"rendered":"James &#8220;Lights Out&#8221; Toney Signs Multi Fight Deal with UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5889\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5889\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5889\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/james-toney-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Toney Joins UFC <\/p><\/div>\n<p>By George Hernandez<\/p>\n<p>Current NABO and IBA Heavyweight boxing champion James &#8220;Lights-Out&#8221; Toney (72-6 boxing, 0-0 MMA) has signed a multi fight deal with the UFC. Toney has been pushing for UFC president Dana White to give him a chance in recent months.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Toney&#8217;s last two fights were a TKO win over Matthew Greer in September and a win over Fres Oquendo for the vacant NABO and IBA heavyweight belts. Toney looks like he would be a perfect opponent for Kimbo Slice.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the first moves by the UFC that most fans and critics don\u2019t agree with. Toney is 41 years old and is already talking like he&#8217;s punch drunk. The fear is that a couple of shots with four ounce gloves and he probably won&#8217;t be able to talk at all. Critics say that if he faces a ground and pound expert his wish will be short lived and he\u2019ll be put out of his misery fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Hernandez Current NABO and IBA Heavyweight boxing champion James &#8220;Lights-Out&#8221; Toney (72-6 boxing, 0-0 MMA) has signed a multi fight deal with the UFC. Toney has been pushing for UFC president Dana White to give him a chance in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1253,2234,2232,2235,2233,126,2236],"class_list":["post-5888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dana-white","tag-fres-oquendo","tag-james-lights-out-toney","tag-kimbo-slice","tag-matthew-greer","tag-mma","tag-ufc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5890,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions\/5890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}