{"id":306472,"date":"2010-02-11T08:15:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-218949:1"},"modified":"2010-02-11T08:15:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T13:15:29","slug":"james-toney-hijacks-sports-soup-to-begtell-off-dana-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/306472","title":{"rendered":"James Toney hijacks &#8216;Sports Soup&#8217; to beg\/tell off Dana White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RnUKkWNeI60&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"never\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>The man is persistent. James Toney <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/blog\/cagewriter\/post\/Boxer-Toney-crashes-UFC-postfight-asking-to-figh?urn=mma,211481\" >crashed the postfight press conference<\/a> after UFC 108 to get some face time and force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4bGBWQqhkOA&amp;feature=player_embedded\" >a sit down with Dana White<\/a>. Apparently White wasn&#8217;t willing to open the vault for a guy who holds the prestigious &quot;IBA&quot; boxing heavyweight title. <\/p>\n<p>Toney to the UFC is dead, right? Not quite. Toney jumped on Versus&#8217; &quot;Sports Soup&quot; and mumbled his way through a verbal beatdown\/request of White to get him into the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>The lines we could decifer included:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;All the UFC fans out there, I love y&#8217;all. If you hate me, [expletive] y&#8217;all!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is a goon service announcement towards Dana White. Dana White [expletive] you, [expletive] you, [expletive] you&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Put down the candy and let the little girls go and come see me.&quot;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Oh Chuck Liddell, Daddy&#8217;s girl. That&#8217;s Dana White&#8217;s No. 1 sweetheart.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Toney did give respect to Randy Couture but also called Kimbo Slice, &quot;Simba Spice.&quot; Great stuff, but Toney isn&#8217;t worth bringing into MMA at any price.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><em>Tip from reader Jason<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man is persistent. James Toney crashed the postfight press conference after UFC 108 to get some face time and force a sit down with Dana White. Apparently White wasn&#8217;t willing to open the vault for a guy who holds the prestigious &quot;IBA&quot; boxing heavyweight title. Toney to the UFC is dead, right? Not quite. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}