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MUNDINE WINS! SPLIT DECISION!
Official cards after 12 rounds of boxing: 115-113 Rabchenko, 115-113 Mundine, 116-112 Mundine!
Mundine hands Rabchenko his first loss. That was classic from Mundine. Took a few shots, but just kept scoring in every round. What a performance!
Mundine, in his post-fight interview, said that heart and chin were the things that got him through. You can’t argue with him. It was a very disciplined, and he showed great defence in keeping the young puncher at bay. Very impressively executed from the 39-year-old, especially when you consider the Joshua Clottey fight.
He’s called out Alvarez and Mayweather as his next targets. What do you think Roarers? Is he a chance?
Australia’s self-proclaimed greatest ever athlete Anthony Mundine takes on Russian warrior and belt-holder Sergey Rabchenko for the WBC Silver Light Middleweight Title in Melbourne tonight.
Join The Roar from 9:30pm AEDT for round-by-round updates from the fight, as well as the full results of the undercard.
The hard-hitting Rabchenko comes into this fight undefeated, on fire and ready to swallow tougher opposition.
In his 25 fights since his debut in 2006, he is 25-0 with 19 of them ending early.
That’s an astonishing record.
But Mundine has fought some of the highest calibre fighters in the business in his time, and the same can’t really be said of Rabchenko.
28-year-old Rabchenko won the strap he currently holds from Welshman Bradley Pryce, was ranked 195th in the world. He has been moving up the ranks in quality of fighters before that and since, but he still hasn’t taken on anyone with runs on the board like Daniel Geale or Shane Mosley.
This will be a serious test for the 39-year-old Mundine, who is staring down the barrel of a second straight loss, after Joshua Clottey handed him a defeat earlier this year.
As ever, he has been bullish in the underdog position. Fighting at home, he called out no less than Floyd Mayweather on Twitter earlier this week, saying he’s gunning for one last chance at the biggest name in boxing if he beats Rabchenko.
The bookies have given him no hope, at $4.00 to win. That’s as long as you’ll get for a fighter the quality of Mundine. For all the talk that he’s gone downhill since his peak, he’s still a quality pugilist who can get it done on his day.
He’s also fought bigger punchers than Rabchenko in his time. Danny Green, Mikkel Kessler and Antwun Echols are all names he has faces and beaten, and are more proven than Rabchenko, so how the Belarusian comes in as such a hot favourite has astounded many.
We could be looking at the last fight of Anthony Mundine’s esteemed career. Then again, we could be looking at a rebirth, if he can pull of the upset.
Join us from around 10pm for the round-by-round action, as well as updates from the undercard before that.
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