James Toney signed and inscribed "Lights out" also dated limited edition hand-painted Everlast glove. (signature and date slightly faded) Beautifully presented in display case with brass plaque.

Price: £250

At the age of 37, James is a 17-year pro. The former IBF middleweight, super middleweight, and cruiserweight world champion, he is undefeated in his last 16 fights - 15-0, 1 ND - dating back to June, 1997.

James won the WBA heavyweight world title on April 30, 2005, with a 12-round decision against defending champion John Ruiz, but tested positive for the steroid nandrolone in the post-fight drug test. The New York State Athletic Commission suspended James for 90 days and fined him $10,000. The result was changed to No Decision, and James was stripped of the title.

James had torn the biceps and triceps muscles in his left arm in his previous fight in September, 2003, against Rydell Booker and underwent surgery two days later. He was prescribed medication shortly after the surgery, and his arm was in a cast until the following January.

Promoter Dan Goossen said, "James received medical treatment for recovery from his biceps and triceps surgery. His doctor has stated that the combination of medications used to control the inflammation and tissue growth caused the positive test result. This is further supported since the body, in combination with the medications, naturally creates the form of substance reflected in the test results. It is simply not true that James either tried to cheat or even cheated without knowing it."

James said, "It was an untimely situation. I feel the same as before, I'm ready to go. People don't realize the Ruiz fight was originally scheduled for June 7, really. Then when Klitschko got hurt, the opportunity for me to fight sooner rather than later came up, and I didn't think about it. I said, 'Hey, let's fight now.' It was still in my system. I think I had 3 1/2 weeks training for the fight, and my arm wasn't really one-hundred percent healed, but I still did a number on him with one arm. So that's why that all came about. Everybody keeps forgetting the fight was really scheduled for June 7, and then I moved it up, not thinking about all the other stuff.

"You can see it for yourself. When I fought Holyfield, Rydell Booker, I was in good shape. When you see that fight right there with Ruiz, I looked like the Pillsbury Doughboy. If I was on steroids, I would put every steroids company out of business. With the athletic commission, we had the balls to 'fess up and do the right thing."

Trainer Freddie Roach said, "The Ruiz fight, James was coming off an injury and we didn't have enough time for it to completely heal. He wasn't at one-hundred percent. The steroids didn't seem to affect him at all, we didn't even know it was still in his system for that fight. James was just himself in the Ruiz fight. His boxing ability won him the fight.

"I didn't even think about the steroids, to be honest with you. When we got the call, I was more surprised than anybody. The thing is, they were in his system, but the medication he was taking stays in your system such a long time, we didn't even think about it. They say that it can stay in your system for nine months. But if you look at James in that fight, he doesn't look like a guy that's on steroids.

"The Booker fight, he had that weight-lifting guy with him, telling him that he needed to look better for the fans and so forth. James was very strong and muscular in the fight, but in the Ruiz fight he wasn't, because I got him off the weights pretty much, and just got him to use his speed and his ability. I told James his asset is speed, and the weights take away from his best asset, in my mind. For the Ruiz fight, we didn't have him lifting at all. He's never going to one of those guys, he doesn't have the body structure to be a ripped guy.

"James believes he's the best fighter in the world, and he might be. When he tells me that, he says, 'Freddie, all these guys have to train to fight and learn how to fight. I was born to fight.' And you know what? It might be true. I mean, the moves he makes, it's not like I'm going to teach anybody else in the world those moves, because they're just natural moves that he makes, it's just in his system. And of course, his first coach, Bill Miller, was a great technician, and James hasn't forgetten those skills that he learned."

James is experienced against top opposition, and has fought former heavyweight world champions John Ruiz (W12, later changed to No Decision) and Evander Holyfield (TKO9, also a former cruiserweight world champion); former cruiserweight world champions Vassiliy Jirov (W12) and Adolpho Washington (TKO10); former light heavyweight world champions Charles Williams (KO12), Mike McCallum three times (W12, W12, and D12, also a middleweight and jr. middleweight world champion), Iran Barkley (TKO9, also a super middleweight and middleweight world champion), and Reggie Johnson (W12, also a middleweight world champion); former super middleweight champions Steve Little (W12) and Michael Nunn (TKO11, also a middleweight world champion); and former middleweight world champion Doug DeWitt (TKO6).

Regarding his nickname, James said, "Greg Owens, the guy that started me out, he had gave it to me. We were going through a roll of nicknames when I turned professional. He said everybody got 'Too Sweet' and names like that. So he heard this song called 'Lights Out' or something like that, and it just stuck ever since then".