Toney to debut at UFC 115 or UFC 116

As soon as it was announced that James "Lights Out" Toney was coming to the UFC, Randy Couture expressed his desire to be the first to fight him in the Octagon, which could prove to be a very embarrassing start to Toney's UFC career. Toney seems to be unshaken though and remains confident in his boxing prowess.

"Damn…oh really? That's what I'm talking about. That's right up my alley. Oh, hell yeah! ...Let me tell you something, I came to the UFC to do one thing and that's to fight the best out there. If it's Couture, so be it. If it's somebody else, so be it. Let's get it on and popping. When Dana White said MMA fighters are better than boxers, come on now, you know better than that.

All day! The fights start standing and that's my comfort zone all day, you heard me. If they think they going to rush me to the ground and think it's going to be easy and I don't know what I'm doing, come on man. I'm a very strong man. I know what I have to do and if they shoot in on me, they getting launched into outer space like a satellite.

Juanito Ibarra, he's good man; that motherf*cker know his sh!t. He got Rampage to the top and we gonna do the same thing. I'm going to destroy these dudes. If Randy Couture put on his Twitter page that he wants to see me, tell him it ain't sh!t. Let's make it happen. If not in June, he can be the one after that.

They talking about June or July, so I'll be ready. That still gives me plenty of time, you know what I'm saying?"

For the fans of the UFC, June and July are looking to be killer months, in terms of show quality. Also, as a UFC fan, I'm quite disappointed in the "selling out" of the UFC with the signing of fighters like "Kimbo" and now Toney. Trying to appeal to cross-over markets and different cultures is a great strategy, but it will only work if the quality of the fighters is equally impressive. We all know Kimbo's story and how horrible his talents in the Octagon are, we'll have to wait and see about Toney.

Toney continues to hype up his debut into the UFC:

"Ah man, you know it's going to be through the roof. People want to see this. To all my haters out there, I love you. Keep hating because you gonna make my buy rate go up... I train every day, 2 to 3 times a day. I'm doing my thing, so you know what? Whatever they bring, I got something for 'em."

"Dana is a business man and he's done a great job with the UFC and he brought it back to the top of the game. Now he has the top dog in boxing in his or ganization and it's going to flourish even more now. Like I said, I'm already a heavyweight boxing champion and now I'm coming to the UFC. I'm bringing everything: excitement, charisma and pizzazz. They gonna love it and they gonna need more, you know what I'm saying?"