Toney Dominates Barkley, Wins After Nine : Boxing: He earns his second IBF title. Jones gets a first-round technical knockout of Wolfe.

Unbeaten James Toney earned a second world championship with an overwhelming victory over Iran Barkley before 3,235 at Caesars Palace on Saturday night.

Toney, winning every round on most cards, became a double champion when referee Richard Steele stopped the one-sided match after the ninth round.

Toney thus adds the International Boxing Federation’s super-middleweight (168 pounds) championship to his IBF middleweight (160) title. He might be in position for a lucrative middleweight fight with Roy Jones, who stopped Glenn Wolfe in the first round of the bout before Toney-Barkley.

Toney dominated Barkley with a striking nonchalance. Half the time he seemed almost bored, the rest of the time he was landing stiff, hard left jabs, and, at close range, uppercuts with both hands.

Afterward, he called his uppercuts “my cranium-crackers.”

Barkley, defending his super-middleweight championship for the second time, was cut inside the mouth early in the match, bled freely from both nostrils and his left eye was steadily closing as the fight neared its finish.

Both fighters earned $1 million. The 24-year-old Toney improved to 34-0-2 while Barkley, 32, slipped to 30-8. Toney weighed 167 pounds, Barkley 168. There were no knockdowns.

Toney, who has had difficulty in the past making 160 pounds, downplayed a Toney-Jones match.

“Right now, Toney-Jones isn’t worth anything,” he said.

“He doesn’t even have a title. Let him go win a title. Then we’ll talk. Maybe in a year.”

The tenor of this match was established in the first minute of the first round. Barkley, unorthodox and off-balance as usual, charged into Toney with wild punches, all of which missed. Toney calmly moved out of Barkley’s path, rattled his head with sharp jabs and rocked him inside with a right uppercut.

The first round ended with Barkley going to the wrong corner. Toney seemed to have much faster hands, seemed more athletic, and seemed to be in far stronger physical condition. Barkley, a natural light-heavyweight, was 40 minutes late to Friday’s weigh-in and reportedly weighed more than 170 pounds Thursday.

In the later rounds, when a lump over Barkley’s left brow began closing his eye, ringside physician Flip Homansky twice inspected the injury between rounds. Steele stopped the fight after conferring with Homansky.

“He wanted to continue,” Homansky said of Barkley. “He was still throwing punches, but he wasn’t protecting himself.”

Toney punched with power inside and quickly pivoted out of harm’s way, delivering effective body shots as he moved. Barkley began slowing down as early as the third round, when his knees began to tremble.

Toney, who finished unmarked, embraced the battered Barkley for a moment in the interview tent afterward, then paid tribute to his foe.

“Iran Barkley was a great warrior for 13 years,” he said. “I take my hat off to him.”

Toney’s best shots were two left hooks that rocked Barkley during the eighth round. But Barkley simply took his beating and kept on charging.

Jones is ranked second among the world’s middleweights by three of boxing’s governing bodies. The biggest loser at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, when he was robbed by a panel of judges in the gold-medal bout, became a million-dollar fighter with one punch Saturday night.

Jones staggered Wolfe with a right hand at close range; a left and a right sent Wolfe reeling into the ropes.

Jones then landed a left hook to Wolfe’s lower right ribs. Wolfe winced and limped to his corner, going to one knee. With 2:23 elapsed, referee Tony Gibson stopped the fight.