{"id":395156,"date":"2010-03-06T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-226255:1"},"modified":"2010-03-06T01:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:00:49","slug":"jim-rome-loves-james-toney-in-the-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/395156","title":{"rendered":"Jim Rome loves James Toney in the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We called it a freak show<\/a> the other day. James Toney to the UFC will
\nbe a circus but it’ll be one that draws lots of eyes. Maybe Dana White
\ndid learn a lesson from all the attention Jose Canseco and Herschel
\nWalker got recently<\/a> from the mainstream media. Lots of new eyes on your
\nsport are an absolute necessity. You can’t always rely on the same hardcore eyes that
\nalways show up.<\/p>\n

Hardcores — that includes myself before taking a
\nfew days to soak in the analysis of the Toney signing — hated the idea
\nof the IBA heavyweight boxing champ in the Octagon. I’m convinced, It’s
\na good move, with only a tiny downside. <\/p>\n

Radio and television host Jim
\nRome nailed it saying he won’t be able to take his eyes off it.<\/p>\n

\n

"What will ‘Lights Out’ do when somebody tries kick him in the face or
\nthrow him into an arm bar him or the fight goes to the ground? I don’t
\nknow what’s going to happen, I just know I can’t wait to find out," said Rome on Thursday’s ‘Jim Rome is Burning’. "The
\nbeauty here is he’ll get an ‘A’ or an ‘F,’ either way I am not changing
\nthe channel which is exactly what Dana White wants."    <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rome said the fact that White is rolling the dice on Toney makes it legitimate.<\/p>\n

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"This
\nisn’t one of those fledgling upstarts or the minor leagues. This is the
\nmajors. And the fact that White, always a guy who has lashed out at
\nwhat he’s called freak shows … has brought him in, well that speaks
\nto much respect for Toney."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For the hardcores who
\nare still spitting fire, you’ll notice there was no breakdown of
\n‘Bowles v. Cruz’ the last two days on "JRIB" or "PTI."
\nSure a Toney-Kimbo Slice fight won’t possess the well-roundedness of a Jake
\nShields-Dan Henderson scrap but guess what will get the lionshare of
\nthe mainstream coverage if the fights are pitted against each other on
\nApr. 17?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We called it a freak show the other day. James Toney to the UFC will be a circus but it’ll be one that draws lots of eyes. Maybe Dana White did learn a lesson from all the attention Jose Canseco and Herschel Walker got recently from the mainstream media. Lots of new eyes on your […]<\/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-395156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395156","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=395156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}