Mundine hitting US under Angelo Dundee

[Dizaster]

Well the arguement on Mundine's side before the fight was that he "can't get himself up anymore for these fights with nobody's"... (the obvious response is stop taking fights with bums them)....
To the point though, don't be surprised if he moves to the US to get knocked out by a C grade US fighter as well....

He is saying that for these guys he's been fighting, it's the equivalent of them fighting a prime Hopkins or Roy Jones,, in regards to being motivated to topple the giant... But for Mundine it's hard to be motivated for such fights....

So don't be surprised if he continues on after this, just aiming to get knocked out by a slightly more well known cab driver....



It's funny Otley said that Mundine is everything that is wrong with boxing and has giving nothing to Pro boxing... But on the radio on the way home on a sports channel, they were just commenting on hour great Mundine was for Australian boxing and how much he gave to it, and how good it's been to have him around......

THAT is the problem with AUSTRALIAN boxing!!!! They hype up a man like Mundine to the point of making out to be P4P champion of the universe,,, then 95% of sports fan's in Australia think boxing doesn't go very far past Mundine..... Which is about as far from reality as you can get..
In that respect, having Mundine fighting for "championship belts" for the past 15 years has actually hurt Australian boxing and brought it down to an almost shameful level for most of the mainstream sports fan....

You would actually be surprised of how little general sports fans and general public think of boxing here a sport... Even because of the violent side of it... Yet they are all over UFC/MMA.... Why? Because we don't have a C class MMA fighter here being touted as the be all and end all of the sport, and a complete ignorance of the rest of the sport by pretty much every aspect of the media....

The quicker Mundine goes away, the better chance we have of getting rid of his big ugly shadow, and maybe see some really ACTUAL promising fighters coming through who we can get behind...


RIP KT from Australian Boxing..... He was a once in a life time blessing by the looks of it..

[bikersk]

Some great points there Diz. It's a bit of a double edged sword the Mundine being good for boxing in Australia issue. It's good that he puts it on the agenda here and that he almost single handedly put boxing back on the map here in Aus and Danny Green owes him for that. However the talk doesn't match the results unfortunately which makes those efforts pale into insignificance with the differential between what Anthony says he is and what he has actually done. His father Tony is more what I admire in a man and a boxer. Little talk with big results, someone who commands respect with his presence not his hype or self promotion. His results speak for the respect he has when he enters a room not his mouthy self promotion. Hector Thompson is another great Aussie example of a guy who achieved a lot (and in my opinion more than Anthony) and doesn't need to tell people about it. He and Tony are great representatives of Aboriginal people and people in general, and happen to be great former boxers. Anthony said before this fight that Garth will see how he is the best, well sorry mate you haven't made it to "the best" you have wanted to be and said you are but nothing in your record backs that up. I admire Anthony for what he has achieved and how he represents his community but I have lost faith in the ability he has in achieving the heights he says he will in the boxing game.