Pretender Mundine is just so mundane
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By Chris McKay, 9 Jan 2010 Chris McKay is a Roar Rookie
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- Anthony Mundine, Boxing
Anthony Mundine defends his WBA super middleweight title against Nader Hamdan. AP Photo/Rick Rycroft
The man, the myth, the dribble! Mundine talks an impressive game, but his list of opponents is far from impressive, and once again it is clear that Mundine and his crew are in complete control of the Australian boxing establishment.
A week out from his fight with Medley, he cannot make the weight and then has the audacity to sit there and make the comment ‘I’m Like Pacquiao!’
No, Anthony you are nothing like Pacquiao.
He is the pound-for-pound king and a peoples’ champion who embraces his fans, whilst you spit in the faces of the Australian public and media most of the time.
Pacquiao has won seven world titles in seven different weight divisions and has fought and conquered some of boxing’s biggest names in De La Hoya, Hatton and Cotto, amongst a host of other top shelf fighters (Morales, Marguez, Barrerra), and will most likely go up against Mayweather some time soon.
To sit there and say you are the best is an absolute joke.
The best fighters like Pacquiao and now Danny Green fight anyone, anywhere on any given day, and champions like Pavlik and Sturm do not duck or dodge fighters.
They defend their titles against the top contenders.
For years Mundine has talked up big name fights and rants on about being the greatest Australian sportsman, but ends up fighting the winner of the Contender!
What a joke.
The time for talk is over. Either step up and fight the best or admit that you and your management have for years handpicked your opponents in an effort to make yourself look like a contender when so far all you are is a pretender.
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waterboy said | January 9th 2010 @ 7:43am | Report comment
This guy has ran the greatest con job in the history of Australian sport.
And why wouldn’t he continue to do so, whilst there are people out there stupid enough to buy tickets to his fight, people take up pay per view for his fights, and editors, TV and radio station execs still willing to give his fights publicity.
Although I find him, his methods and posse completely repulsive dont say shame on him, say shame on you (the above).
LeftArmSpinner said | January 9th 2010 @ 8:15am | Report comment
I agree completely. we watch to simply see him get his arse kicked.
Scott said | January 9th 2010 @ 9:51am | Report comment
Amen to all that, it is backed by him not fighting Daniel Geale again. He was never going to give Geale a rematch because his stalling tactics had been exposed. He should never have won that fight. I’m not talking about the judges decision. The ref should never have let him get away with using the loose taping tactic 5 times without point deduction. This was a blatant attempt to rest as he knew he couldn’t go with Geale’s stamina and fitness.
Waterboy although I agree with a lot of what you say, a fair percentage of those punters that shell out in whatever way (tickets, ppv etc) do so in the hope of seeing him knocked out.
jokeCoachFreddyRoach said | January 9th 2010 @ 11:11am | Report comment
this year will be a big year for tha man , all the crackers out there all write and talk but mundine keeps winning then when good boxer fight him they all looking like dominos ! i like to see what people say when mundine beats pavlik winky geale green but we told u so dominos all day everyday this how mundine do it !!! go australia mundine keeping boxing alive here
gaaagang said | January 13th 2010 @ 10:12am | Report comment
i agree mate… all these so called boxing fans??? whatever!!! You all never follewed boxing in australia with the passion you do now… because choc (mundine) has put boxing back on the map in australia and back in your lounge rooms back in your clubs and back in your conversations… ha ha ha
and i bet there’s a few people out there reading this artical and are in denial… (prob saying i love boxing ) yeah BS you all best take a good look at yourself and your own personal attitudes. i truely believe most of you peolpe that hate another aussie for being strong and proud of his heritage are straight up racist… and in that case you should follow a different sport or maybe no sport at all cause most sports are dominated by coloured people…
PEACE…
chris McKay said | January 13th 2010 @ 10:50am | Report comment
Most people watch Mundine b/c they want to see him get knocked out which is a rela shame but he only has himself to blame after repeated comments about 9/11 and continually spitting in the faces of the Australian public and media.
People are turning away from his fight in droves b/c they see that the talk and quality of fights do not match up. He fights bums. Plain and simple.
Nice try at playing the race card but that simply does not cut it in this day and age, especially when some of Australia’s and the worlds most popular sporting figures are indeed not white. Try and find someone who does not absolutely love Manny Pacquiao! Why – because he embraces people.
And in case it slipped your memory – Mundine’s mother is white!
chris McKay said | January 15th 2010 @ 3:48pm | Report comment
Mundine beating Pavlik!
Please. Pavlik is 28 years old, has had 37 fights, 36 wins with 32 KO’s and 1 loss against Hopkins.
Pavlik would have no idea who Mundane is. No one outside of Australia does. He is a little fish in a little pond.
Infarction said | January 15th 2010 @ 3:59pm | Report comment
You really dislike Mundine don’t you. I am sure Pavlik knows who he is. There has been talk about a possible fight for a while and sounding out of Pavlik from team Mundine (from all accounts). Mundine also fought Ottke and Kessler both fighters Pavlik would know about so it’s probably safe to assume he does infact know who he is after all.
chris McKay said | January 15th 2010 @ 4:06pm | Report comment
Unfortunately I do. I am always going for the other person which is not the Australian way but his comments and the way he conducts himself make it very hard to like him. Tired of him talking himself up the way he does and then fighting no ones.
Pavlik might have heard his name in passing but would never have watched him fight or watched one of his fights on video and the reason is that Mundine is not even ranked in top 15 by WBC (Geale is ranked 12th).
Team Mundine do a lot of talking but never deliver on big name bouts.
Dogz R Barkn said | January 15th 2010 @ 4:08pm | Report comment
All pro boxers talk themselves up.
Infarction said | January 15th 2010 @ 4:19pm | Report comment
Have you ever met him? Anyone that meets him or spends anytime with him will tell you a very different story regarding what he is like. He talks a lot of rubbish in the media to get the attention to make the money. And it’s people who, like yourself, don’t like him that line his pockets by watching his fights. Away from the cameras he is a very different person, a family man who has great values, i mean we don’t ever read about him being drunk in public and assaulting women do we. So what he talks it up, for the life of me i fail to see why this manages to annoy people so much and for the life of me i can’t see why those people fall for it every single time and end up contributing to his ever growing wealth. It’s kind of funny really isn’t it.
gazz said | January 9th 2010 @ 11:46am | Report comment
I find Danny Green mundane. So predictable, such a bogan.
Daniel Siddle said | January 9th 2010 @ 12:10pm | Report comment
Are you for real Danny Green has not fought anyone any better than the people anthony mundine has fought they both should be kicked out of australia for stupidity along with you mate!!! He knocked out a far from good old jones and he is a great all of a sudden…… your a girls blouse mate!!!
I pay to see mundine get knocked out to but his fights are ten times more entertaining than Danny “aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi” Green he is such a one dimentional boxer with little to no skills and a mouth that makes no sense at all like his idiot mate ANOTHER OLD MAN HE WOULD FIGHT THE BEST NEAR HIS DIVISION DAWSON!!! or some other good calibre boxer you obviously have no experience in this feild so back to soccer you pansy!!!
adam said | January 9th 2010 @ 1:45pm | Report comment
i agree time for mundine to put his money where his mouth is and fight the big names
like green who will chase after the big names .
Daniel Siddle said | January 9th 2010 @ 6:02pm | Report comment
what big names has danny green chased??? he bought an old man here a big name yeah ten years ago………….as a matter of fact the only person he really chased was mundine and he lost lol…………..he didnt chase roy jones roy jones picked him as a tune up he didnt chase Kessler pavlik wright stern or anyone else when he was super middle weight either now he runs to Cruzerweight and wont fight the best there either DAWSON he is a crab mate!! and to use the excuse that its because danny green was outside his weight class and sick at super middleweight is a joke he has fought the majority of his fights at middleweight and never complained anthony mundine is a natural cruzerweight from his rugby days and slimming for middleweight hasnt hurt him you danny green fans are idiots and delusional!!!
Steve said | January 10th 2010 @ 9:52pm | Report comment
Wow mate, youve really got no idea do you. Pavlik, Sturm and Wright are all Middleweights, Danny was campaigning at Super Middleweight before he retired. In fact he has NEVER fought professionaly at middleweight. If you had followed any sort of Australian boxing closely you would know that Green also had a fight a few years ago set up with Antonio Tarver which Tarver ended up pulling out of because Green was too big of a risk. So now Green has chased, Tarver, Jones and is currently chasing Hopkins. Unlike Mundine, Green has an international promoter in Garry Shaw, proving that he is lookin for big international opponents. Unlike the Cab drivers that Mundine fights.
gaaagang said | January 13th 2010 @ 10:25am | Report comment
You wouldn’t of even heard of a man called danny green if it wasn’t for mundine pulling Jeff F into line years and years ago… green was just somebody jeff F got to fight his battles cause he couldn’t do shiiiit himself… danny green is a no-body bless him (choc proved that)… not to mention that danny had the pants hanging off his arse before mundine made that punk a lot of money… danny who??? thats what you all would be saying if it wern’t for mundine…
chris McKay said | January 13th 2010 @ 12:36pm | Report comment
Green was well known in boxing circles long before Mundine showed up as he was a 2000 Olympian.
Mundine is and always be an also ran. He got knocked out COLD by Ottke – a guy who is considered to have almost no knock-out punch (6 knock-outs in his career of 34 fights) and was unable to deal with Kessler or Siaca.
Mundine has held interim and vacant belts – and aside from Geale (which on a re-count Mundine
lost in a split points decision) has never actually won a world title.
Green has beaten Stripe Dews for the WBA light heavyweight title and also won the IBO cruiserweight
title – both legitimate world title fights. he then defended his title agianst Roy Jones Jnr who looked amazing against Jeff lacy – a quality fighter in his own right.
Green gets in the ring and fights. Mundine stands at the dias talking and fighting bums.
Infarction said | January 13th 2010 @ 12:42pm | Report comment
One one hand you praise Green then on the other you call him a bum? He lost badly to Mundine remember.
gazz2 said | January 9th 2010 @ 6:33pm | Report comment
Mr Siddle – learn to spell champ
Ben said | January 9th 2010 @ 9:43pm | Report comment
Yawn!
MM Fike said | January 9th 2010 @ 10:50pm | Report comment
Mundine has made lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Thats all that counts in this world isn’t it?
They are smart operators.