Fast-forward two decades and, on Saturday night in Las Vegas, Toney was ringside at UFC 116 to watch UFC world heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar become 2010's 'baddest man on the planet' upon crushing number one contender Shane Carwin.
As his poem titled "Spleen" famously begins (in a translation by Edna St . Vincent Millay, When the low, heavy sky weighs like the giant lid Of a great pot upon the spirit crushed by care, And from the whole horizon encircling us is shed A day blacker than night, and thicker with despair.
This was not an entirely satisfactory arrangement, since the shells generally exploded during their passage through the armour and not after they had penetrated to the vulnerable workings of the ship, but it was even less satisfactory to fit the shells with impact fuzes, which were simply crushed upon impact.
"Perhaps the Championship will stay on Merseyside after all," was the slightly startled opening line in the Observer's report, upon Everton crushing United 5-0.
It is common knowledge that, on her road to victory, she even pushed aside her mentor in 2000, when she called upon the party – then crushed by allegations it had obtained illicit funds – to liberate itself from the "Father of Reunification".
"I remember seeing just wave upon wave of people, crushed into trucks driving to the camps, with nowhere to sleep or sit," he said.
The parking lot is a scrapyard, crushed cars piled upon each other.
The Old Believers, dissenters who refused to accept Nikon's liturgical reforms imposed upon the Russian Orthodox Church, were either crushed by government force, driven to self-destruction, or reduced to silent resistance.
We can ask ourselves whether the enjoyment creates valued memories and anecdotes for years to come, or must be crushed and hidden upon consummation.
But upon arriving, most people are crushed to learn that weed is, in fact, NOT legal, there aren't any ladies of the night waiting for you in the hotel lobby, and the only strip clubs that are more-or-less openly brothels are all the way in Laval.
