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very good post Ewen.....Jimmy Mac and MacCarthy both had good fights with Twist by being open, technical, and trying to outland TT.....McKenzie caught him in the early days when he was still a normal sized guy.....he dared to "take one to give one" and if you wanted to win that was the formula with Tony....not strait T2T but definatley open and with losts of movement and switching....both these guys exploited Tony's prime weakness which was balance and accuracy.
as time ticked on though less and less guys were willing to pay this "potential price".....i say potential because his KO rate was nothing special but the potential of getting the lights turned out by TT was very real so why bother.....also as his career progressed and his....ah....weight exploded....he was away tougher to handle
Sandman dished out Tony's only loss of the season in the fight shown by doing a bit of the spin cycle and exploiting Twists balance issue
the fact is not many guys could impose their style on Tony it was almost always the other way around......most guys just didn't want to take the chance and it led to allot of boring fights
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