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Gunn Talks Toney Fight, Future In Boxing PhilBoxing.com Tue, 15 May 2012 This morning I sat down with Bobby Gunn for an exclusive interview about his fight with James Toney and what lies ahead in his future within the squared circle. CC: How you feeling? Gunn: I?m doing good. My hand is healing up great. I?m starting my training and I feel really good. CC: Tell me your thoughts about the James Toney fight. Gunn: First and foremost, I want to thank James Toney for the fight. A lot of things happened before the fight, but after the fight we became friends; he?s a nice guy and a total class act. Every prisoner in jail claims that they are innocent, and every fighter has an excuse after a loss. Plain and simple, he did what he was supposed to do, and I didn?t do what I should?ve done. Hats off to him, he is a great champion. It really was an honor to share the ring with a hall of famer like that. CC: Going into the fight, you had some distractions regarding finding out the fight was not for the IBA Heavyweight title as well as some other issues. What happened with that? Gunn: It was terrible. The promoter wanted to change the contract two days before the fight. There was some money issues that we had to work out?the purse being totally different from what we agreed upon going into the fight. There was a lot of headache, and a lot of stuff that I never had to deal with in my past, but 100% I learned my lesson and a few things will be different in the future. CC: How has your hand been healing up, and is it going to affect you going forward? Gunn: I am a two-handed fighter. A few months back I had a bare knuckle fight where I hurt my hand, and through training camp it started to aggravate me and I was basically a one-handed fighter. So going into the fight it was injured. Again, I don?t want to start making excuses like every fighter does. Plain and simple, it?s over, it is what it is. I lost, he won, and I wish him the best. He is a great champion. CC: Do you plan on staying at heavyweight going forward? Gunn: I learned this fight that I am absolutely not a heavyweight, in any way, shape or form. I fought a hard 5 rounds with James Toney, with only one hand through basically four of those rounds. But it is what it is. I am not a heavyweight. I will definitely be dropping down a weight class, and I?d like to fight next month if I could. Right now I feel excellent. Following the fight, I spoke with James Toney at the hotel. He asked how Bobby?s hand was and commented that Bobby Gunn was one of the hardest punchers he had faced. As a cruiserweight Bobby Gunn won multiple titles, including the IBA Cruiserweight Title. In coming months he is looking to work his way toward a Light Heavyweight Title.  |
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