Mundine is the best Aussie athlete at self-promotion

Haha.. babbling because you can't prove it wrong.. Nice argument. As for Golovkin, i am not sure what that has to do with Mundine schooling Green, however if he doesn't take the fight it is a missed opportunity for him to prove that he is serious about taking on better opponents as he claims.

You are babbling. Why is Mundine ducking Golovkin then? The WBA offered him the fight with Golovkin for the WBA middleweight title and he would not sign the contract. Why?

That's all well and good, but that's not really an issue with that fight. he had only been at LH for something like 2 fights, it's not like he had been fighting there for a long time and then had to suddeny drop down one weight division. It's simply an excuse people like yourself use to try and justify to themselves why Green got schooled so badly.

He was having trouble making 12 stone. Since moving up he has won the WBA light heavyweight title and IBO Cruiserweight title. Mundine moved down to middleweight and still cannot make the weight. As you get older your muscle mass increases. Tony Mundine was not as big as his son and had to move to light heavyweight at 23. Sugar Ray Robinson moved up to middleweight when he could not not make welter any more and won championships as a middleweight. Dick Tiger lost the middleweight title to Emile Griffith and went on to win the Light heavyweight title from Jose Torres. It is no good starving yourself to make a weight you used to make and weakening yourself. Why do you think Delahoya, Mayweather and Pacquaio moved up in weight? Pacquaio started out as a flyweight and lost that title on the scales when he could not make the weight any more and had to move all the way to Super Bantam. Oscar started as a featherweight and finished up winning a middleweight belt, Floyd keeps moving up in weight divisions as he gets heavier, from super Featherweight to Welterweight. When it comes to Australians, Michael Katsidis is making a bigger impression than Mundine.

So tell me about his Pro career up until he fought Mundine "dummy".. He was fighting at SM up until a couple of fights prior to that fight. He even won an interim world title at that weight. He wasn't "weight" drained, he was simply given a boxing lesson.

true but the point of the article is that you are still interested enough in him that you are watching despite his lack of proper opposition. my own opinion of the fight is that yes Green had to make a weight that in hindsight didn't suit him but Mundine won quite well & controlled the fight giving Green little opportunity to use his obvious advantage in being the bigger/harder puncher. the fact that the fight everyone still wants to see ( not me personally but it seems to be all people talk of) is Green-Mundine 2 shows just how well 'the Man' does market himself.

Lol.. Well drained.. He did have to fight him at the weight he had spent most of his career and had won titles at. He had only been at LH for a couple of fights prior to fighting Mundine. Hardly likely to have seen him "well drained" Mundine's next fight will be against Golovkin in the States in July by the looks. Should be a good fight, it's an interesting matchup.

Green was weight drained when he fought Mundine. Since he moved up to light heavyweight and later cruiserweight he has not lost a fight and WBA light heavyweight champion Stipe Drews was the only fighter to go the distance with him. Mundine is overdue to fight somebody decent. He has not scored a KO since dropping to middleweight.

The reason why Mundine doesnt get the respect that you say he's earned, is simply because he hasnt earned it. He has never backed up any of his many, bold, public statments. The fight in which he takes over the world has always been just two fights away and it's been the same story for atleast the last five years. The only boxer that Mudine has beat who actually held a world title belt was Daniel Geale, who held the IBO middleweight belt, every other title he fought for was vacant. His victory over Geale had controversy surrounding it, after an investigation the IBO ordered Mundine to rematch Geale, he instead dropped a weight-class to avoid Geale and take on little known Medley. After back peddling for 12 rounds against Kessler, he avoided a rematch with him.The Green victory is the only shining light in what is otherwise quite an ordinary fight resume. He may be a great promoter here in Oz, but on the international scene he is a very small pebble and very little known. The fact that he continues to fight 2nd/3rd tier fighters, ducking others and still promoting himself as the greatest boxer in the world, to me is a cop-out for the Australian public that pay to see him. Glorifying him because he is better at promoting himself, whilst less known/more accomplished Australian boxers go under the radar of the Australian public, sorry thats a hard cookie for me to swallow. Mundine had great boxing skills, speed, talent, a public image, contacts in the boxing world and he let that all go to waste.

Thats right Nick, I know people who know or have met Mundine, and they say he is one of the most humble, polite and compassionate blokes going around. Its a shame the rest of us dont see it......

Agree sledgeross, However aussies have never and will never get behind self admiring, ego driven athletes. They love the underdog who lets his skills do the talking. I hate mundine the athlete with a passion, however Im sure Mundine the person away from the media is a wonderful bloke. Woudnt you rather be remembered as one of Australias favourite sportsman rather than the money hungry, big noting goose !

Anthony Mundine is a super athlete. People often forget that he was a solid basketball player too. In the mid-1990's NBL teams were interested in him. I think it is fair to say that Mundine puts on a show with his talk, but when I saw him in person in 1999 he appeared quiet and he stood in the players’ tunnel at Leichhardt Oval out of sight. He signed an autograph for me, and I found him to be pleasant. A person’s public image is often manufactured to sustain the profile that they have in society. Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Author

You are right of course. No one ever go so much fame for achieving so little. He was a good footy player (individually), and seems a fair boxer. The fact is that we wont know how good a footy player he was because he left before his career really started, and we will never know how good a boxer he is until he fights someone of note. We know how he went against rated opponents Ottke and Kessler, but what since then? He has the skills and humility to be one of Australias most popular sportsmen, but chooses to play the villain for the sake of money. Hes an interesting character all right, an enigma.