{"id":425458,"date":"2026-01-22T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/425458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:45:13","slug":"three-weight-world-champion-says-he-will-unretire-at-57-for-the-right-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/425458\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Weight World Champion Says He Will Unretire At 57 For The Right Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

A three-weight world champion has revealed that he would make a sensational return to boxing for \u2018the right price\u2019.<\/p>\n

It has been just under nine years since three-weight world champion James Toney<\/a> fought as a professional, but the 57-year-old from Michigan has left the door open for a shock return to the sport ever since.<\/p>\n

During his illustrious career, Toney claimed world honours at middleweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight after wins over the likes of Iran Barkley and Mike McCallum, and also won a world heavyweight title, only for the result to be overturned due to a failed drugs test.<\/p>\n

Toney did make a brief return to action against Donovan \u2018Razor\u2019 Ruddock in November of 2023<\/a>, facing the retired heavyweight in a six round exhibition clash at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston, Jamaica.<\/p>\n

Speaking to ESNEWS recently<\/a>, Toney revealed that he would be interested in making a comeback to boxing for \u2018the right price\u2019 as he claims he would fight \u2018anybody, anywhere\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the price is right. I will fight anybody, anywhere. Anywhere, anytime. But just quit being scared, I\u2019m 57-years-old, I\u2019ll still knock your ass out. We do an exhibition, we do a real fight. I don\u2019t care, however you want to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should he decide to make a return to the sport, Toney would become the latest high-profile fighter to come out of retirement, such as former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, who put an end to a near 20-year hiatus in November 2024 when he faced Jake Paul in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A three-weight world champion has revealed that he would make a sensational return to boxing for \u2018the right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-425458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}