Anthony Mundine V Daniel Geale on tonight - The IBO Middle weight title

I'll be watching this with interest as I've been watching Geale for a bit and have been impressed. Geale won the title from Daniel Dawson in Dec 07 and has won 3 of his fights since. He's a great boxer and tough too. It should be a good fight and is a big step up for Geale. Mundine is looking for his third title in this fight and is canfident - of course. If people are interested let me know and I can do a RBR.

Hi There I would love a RBR as i am in NZ and there is no screening of the fight at all!:confused:

I'm up for that too bro, I want Mundine to win it and pull his finger and chase a last couple of big bouts.

All right then the Sonny Bill Williams Fight just went down, wow that guy could do anything if he wanted and raised $50,000 for the KO for drugs campaign. He won by TKO. Good on him. so now the main event is on soon. It will take forever for them to come out - but hang in there i'll do the RBR.

I'd rep you, but I got rep wild and lost all power mate.
Thanks for doing it though bro.

Ok thanks man - fight starts soon - prob 10 minutes

I'm quite looking forward to this fight, I think Geale is a thinking fighter and will bring a lot to the ring. Mundine is a very gifted athelete and will be hard to come over for Geale. Mundine now makes his way out to the ring.

Geale comes out to the cheers of the packed arena. Not a one sided crowd though seems a bit 50/50 at the moment.

Rnd 1 of 12 rounds for the IBO Middleweight title.

The usual feeling out process but Geale goes on the attack early to send a message Geale lands a big right but Mundine doesnt move good exchanges after that from both mundine throws right right right all dont connect - cant score the round pretty even

Rnd 2
Geale down in the first seconds of rnd 2
Geale up after 7 secs
both guys fast and geale has shaken off the knock down
Geale throws a lot but keeps missing keeps avoiding mundines shots too
great end to the round from geale but a 10 - 8 for mundine.

Good call on the rbr.

Is the winner of this fight a mandatory for Felix Sturm?

Rnd 3
geale comes out strong both feinting well and very active geale coming on strong in this round and is certainly a much better fighter than his previous fights
good left from geale and he is moving well this round mundine comes back with an upper cut
Another even round

Rnd 4
this is a world class fight
geale ups the pace again and a great exchange from both in the centre ring a great fight geale ups the ante in this round and is feinting well and both guys connect but sooo much movement , mundine lands a good body shot and geale retreats but geale comes back with a great combo
this is now a close fight

Rnd 5
geale starts strong and mundine answers
geale tries to hit mundine but he is soooo hard to hit rounds now start to slow a bit both guys land some but some goog combos from mundine both guys land a lot towards the end of the round once again could be even or depends on your perception - a real close fight.

Rnd 6
Starts wit a big right from mundine
both exchange in centre ring as tape is applied to the gloves of mundine
geale comes forward and does well but mundine counters well this is a good fight
geale now moves in and hits him well
now 2 head clashes stall the round
geale ends the round well so could be even or to geale - a close fight

rnd 7

round starts and mundine goes to the corner to be retaped
Geale presses and hits mundine well he is more active and is landing well
Mundine answers with some right hands
geale starts to pick off mundine but mundine answers with the right hand and hurts geale
stopped again for the tape
now back on and the round ends
wow good round for mundine

Rnd 8
both guys start well mundine pressing and geale fights back
great hands from mundine this round hitting and not getting hit
but geale trys hard
both guys open up - what a fight
another tape stoppage
who knows who won that one

Rnd 9
both come out strong geale is working hard this round both guys throw some big ones geale starts to throw combos and mundine looking to dominate - the pace is great
mundine slips and the commentators call for a knockdown.

Rnd 10

Round starts well but mundines tape come loose again

both guys throw many punches this is a good round

geale starts to come on strong
geale now backs up and mundine mves forward a good round for mundine

Rnd 11

What a fight

mundine lands a low blow to start the round then mundine lands another good right great left from mundine he looks good now
geale is pressing though
great right from mundine
the fight opens up and both guys throw caution to the wind but no one get s the better of the other
This will be a last round fight

Rnd 12 - last round - what a fight

geale comes out strong mundine is rocked but comes back well what a fight
ood round by mundine - should win by 2 points i'd say but wouldn't be surprised or dissapointed if geale got the win - one of the best fights we have seen here in years. Credit to both guys.

That was a good fight.

Score card is
116 - 113 115 - 113 114 - 113

Mundine

Nice one mate well done for that, off to bed now 4:45 kickoff for the Champions League !!!

Gimme an update on that other businss you had today buddy.

Thanks again,nice work , some Reps due when I spread the love a bit !!;D

The knock down was obviously the difference but Geale, I reckon gave Mundine the toughest fight of his life.

Geale shows he is WORLD class and mundine got the nod. Guess we will debate the merits of the win over time and look forward to it but that was a damn good fight.

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Score card is
116 - 113 115 - 113 114 - 113

Mundine

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Thanks for the RBR

My Pleasure

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Nice one mate well done for that, off to bed now 4:45 kickoff for the Champions League !!!

Gimme an update on that other businss you had today buddy.

Thanks again,nice work , some Reps due when I spread the love a bit !!;D

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Ok no prob

PM me when u are ready

Sounds like it was a quality fight. Excellent work bikersk! ;)

Fuckin hell that was alot closer then i thought it would be. I dont think mundine expected geale to be that good.

There are several things i have taken out of this fight. Geale is good and Mundine has lost all of his snap and power at 160lb! He landed some good shots but they had little effect on Geale, they had little effect on Taylor too!
I also think age is starting to catch up with Mundine, he is 34yrs old!
If he gets in the ring with Pavlik he will be annihilated!

Just caught a download of the fight. Wasn't bad. Kept me entertained. Mundine doesn't look good at 160.

Here's a link to a local news story.

Mundine takes aim at big-name fighters

That was a really good fight & although Mundine won, Geale showed himself to be world class imo

BTW I'm glad Gurr got his mouth shut. I'm a kiwi but that a**hole was giving us a bad name! What a dick!!!

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There are several things i have taken out of this fight. Geale is good and Mundine has lost all of his snap and power at 160lb! He landed some good shots but they had little effect on Geale, they had little effect on Taylor too!
I also think age is starting to catch up with Mundine, he is 34yrs old!
If he gets in the ring with Pavlik he will be annihilated!

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I think you are right, he didnt look very fit to me last night either. He looked like he was fucked after the 3rd round. They were smothering him with water in the corner, i think he might need to go back to 168 and try and fight Froch or someone.

When will Mundine actully fight someone??

He just did dude. Geale is a very good fighter, and was defending his world title. I know Mundine has fought some silly fights and i've been critical of that with him but I guess he was keeping busy. This was a good fight and against a world champ. Geale won the vacant title against another good fighter Daniel Dawson and it was Dawsons only loss in his 35 pro fights with 24 ko's under his belt. I know they are not well known but they are very good quality fighters and this win should be congratulated.

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He just did dude. Geale is a very good fighter, and was defending his world title. I know Mundine has fought some silly fights and i've been critical of that with him but I guess he was keeping busy. This was a good fight and against a world champ. Geale won the vacant title against another good fighter Daniel Dawson and it was Dawsons only loss in his 35 pro fights with 24 ko's under his belt. I know they are not well known but they are very good quality fighters and this win should be congratulated.

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You being serious World Title? The shitty IBO, please Mundine is a fraud mate hes been milking the Oz market for far to long if he was serious about being a proper world class fighter he would of fought someone in the last three years, he has been exposed twice though by Ottke and Kesler so you cant blame him.

I was there, ringside, and can comprehensively say that Mundine did not win that fight.
He has not earned the title, nor the win in my opinion.

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There are several things i have taken out of this fight. Geale is good and Mundine has lost all of his snap and power at 160lb! He landed some good shots but they had little effect on Geale, they had little effect on Taylor too!
I also think age is starting to catch up with Mundine, he is 34yrs old!
If he gets in the ring with Pavlik he will be annihilated!

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I think you are right, he didnt look very fit to me last night either. He looked like he was fucked after the 3rd round. They were smothering him with water in the corner, i think he might need to go back to 168 and try and fight Froch or someone.

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It sounds like Mundine can't get fights at 168 so is draining himself to make 160, I don't think he will be successful at that weight and it's only gonna take years off him like it did Roy Jones Jr.

How coincidental that he is trained by Roy's father

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He just did dude. Geale is a very good fighter, and was defending his world title. I know Mundine has fought some silly fights and i've been critical of that with him but I guess he was keeping busy. This was a good fight and against a world champ. Geale won the vacant title against another good fighter Daniel Dawson and it was Dawsons only loss in his 35 pro fights with 24 ko's under his belt. I know they are not well known but they are very good quality fighters and this win should be congratulated.

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You being serious World Title? The shitty IBO, please Mundine is a fraud mate hes been milking the Oz market for far to long if he was serious about being a proper world class fighter he would of fought someone in the last three years, he has been exposed twice though by Ottke and Kesler so you cant blame him.

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Mate I agree with most of what you say but a few points of argument. Mundine was doing very well against Ottke and was probably winning the fight untill the KO but it was very early on in his fight career. I agree he struggled against Kessler but he gave an ok fight. He looked a bit gun shy to me though. He also lost to Manny Siacca I think in a similar way to how he lost to Kessler. But the comment was more about Geale than Mundine. I was personally hoping Geale would pull off a win, i like him much more than Mundine and believe he could achieve a lot in the sport and do a lot for it's appeal here. Geale is a quality fighter and I hope he goes on to bigger and better things than Mundine. There's no doubt Mundine is at the end of his career so he's trying to milk all he can and I agree that his boxing can't catch up with his mouth unfortunately. He will have to back it up now he is moving to the US to fight and if he does great if not no surprise there. I would much prefer Geale to do well get well known and win a real title. My issue was with Geale being called no-one. He's not.