James "Lights Out" Toney signs a Multi Fight deal with The UFC
 

After months of speculation following James Toney making his intentions to fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship public, one of the greatest boxers of our time is now set to embark on his career in mixed martial arts.

FiveOuncesofPain.com has been informed through sources close to the situation that James Toney has recently been signed to a multi-fight contract with the UFC.

Toney was seen during UFC 108 while attempting to track down UFC President Dana White in hopes of negotiating terms for the boxer to enter the UFC, although more recent comments from Toney made it appear as though the deal, if any, was dead in the water before today.

“Lights Out” is a former professional middleweight, super-middleweight, and cruiserweight boxing champion, while currently being listed as the active NABO and IBA heavyweight title holder.

Toney’s decorated professional boxing record currently stands at 72 victories and only 6 defeats, with 3 draws and 2 no-contests. James has stopped 44 of his 72 victims via knockout for an impressive 61% knockout ratio.

There is no news currently available as to when Toney will be making his debut for the promotion. Stay tuned to 5 Oz. as we keep you up to date on this developing story.

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He's a bit old for this sort of thing really. I can only assume that he's yet another washed up boxer who has frittered all his money away and is doing this to pay the bills.

I think it's more of an attention thing than money, he will not make the kind of money in MMA as he would in Boxing, he is desperate for spotlight and he knows he can't get it done in a boxing ring any more so he mistakenly thinks he will get it inside the octagon, he'll soon realize his mistake, the guy is a shell of his former self as a boxer and is WAY too old to even fathom trying to become a legit mixed martial artist, he is viewing MMA fighters as nothing but bar room brawlers with no skill, he will find out the hard way that they are world class athletes with world class fighting skills, what will James Toney do when he feels kicks and knees from a high level heavyweight kickboxer for the first time? how will he react having to deal with striking in the clinch for the first time? what's he going to do when he's put up against a high level wrestler or a Jiu Jitsu blackbelt? Toney will amount to nothing in MMA, he is old and in horrible shape, what he's doing here would be the equivalent to Randy Couture at age 44 trying to go and box a Klitchko even though he has no boxing background.