Mundine apologises to boxer Geale

Nothing i have written is not spot on the money . and nothing i have written is based on anything else but knowledge of the game , and yes mate i am very proud to know them both especially Daniel one of boxing true gentlemen , and deserving champion .....

well i have been running since i was 2 years old but that does not make me a professional athlete. As geale says "ill do my talking with my fists" ... so maybe you should Show how much you know by writing things that are actually correct and informative and not based on ego. Im so happy for you that you know them. You must be very proud.

David i know Anthony and i guess you must as well ,seeing your so intune with whats happening ,Anthony puts on a show and is probably one of the nicest guys outside of ring talk and dosen't need this .bs. but thats his choice . i also know Daniel quite well and he spared many of my fighters over his early days and i am good friends with his long time coach in Tas Graham George . With over thirty years in the game i would like to think i have a rough idea about the game , cheers .....

You dont have to, but it just so happens to be the path mundine has chosen. And no it isn't unfortunate.. if everyone in boxing had the same character it would be boring. This is the reason we are on the forum right now, because it's interested and makes for good discussion... if you don't agree then don't respond.

David get of daddys computer . And again the pay day might be good in the end but that was not the reason Daniel took the fight ......

And isn't it unfortunate that you have to be controversial loud mouthed to draw in a crowd , yes Mundine took what Ali did and has used it to his advantage adding the same recipe for playing down opponents and giving them a mouthful ....

Yes he did steve. He will fight golovkin when golovkin has built a bit more rep, and martinez was "unavailable". No other fighters will come even close giving him the pay day mundine will.Seriously dude.. you are wrong... really really wrong. Like dumbass wrong.

Steve, I lived through the Ali period and remember the behaviour and the public reaction. I am not suggesting that Mundine is in Ali's class, but Mundine learned much from how Ali promoted himself. Today we see Ali as that Great Champion Fighter. Back then, though admired for dancing like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, he came under very similar public reaction. People loved him or hated him back then. If you recall not only did he convert to Islam, which actually wasnt seen quite as controversial as it is today, he also was very critical of the West, refused to be conscripted and went to gaol for it, and often big mouthed against his opponents. One or two were embittered for years by his comments. But Ali, like Mundine, was a showman, and he raised the status of boxing significantly for a decade or two world wide. Mundine has only done it here in Oz but the Americans know him for his comments about 9/11. There is little doubt that Mundine took much of Ali's style and incorporated it into how he presented himself. Good luck to the young fighter he is soon to face. I would be very surprised if Mundine meant to be so degrading of his opponent....yes he crossed the line and I think he realised in the heat of the moment and the glare of publicity, he said things he now regrets because he is proud of his indigenous background. But that's how Mundine promotes himself and his fights, and when he fights, Steve, people pay attention, many hoping to see him flattened. But he loved being the cowboy with the black hat (excuse the pun) and if you think about it, its often the villain that draws your attention to a show. When he leaves, boxing will have lost not just a great drawcard, but a lot of interest in the sport.

Mate you talk rubbish , educate yourself majority money will come from Fox rights yet to be seen weather or not it will be a winner , and just how many will pay , and i can assure you Daniel didn't take this fight just for the money , don,t talk about what you know little about ...........

Steve.....the reason geale took the fight is because it was one with the biggest pay-day for him...educate yourself.

Mate Mundine could sit back and say nothing and this fight would draw a crowd , because most want to see his big mouth shut ,and to compare Mundine and Ali is nothing short of a joke , Mundine is sacrificing nothing Daniel is the one who is doing the sacrificing could have got way better payday and better cred fighting overseas than fighting big mouth Mundine ...

Good comment! when mundine leaves there is no doubt that australian attention to boxing will take a nose dive, maybe not by hardcore fans but the everday aussie. I am heavily into boxing now and follow many fighters. i was only 14 when mundine started boxing and he is the reason i started following. I was at the Green Mundine fight and it is a very fond memory. TRUE~ people dont seem to know that muhammad ali was the biggest loud mouth of them all, and converted to islam which created a huge stir. very controversial character though many years later still talked about. mundine isn't dumb, he is actually making a huge sacrifice taking all the heat from the media in order to publicise this fight. He knows what he's doing and it's working.

Daniel is the true aussie battler he never had a great fighter for a father and came from a hard working family in Tas . He was trained by a great amateur coach in Tas Graham George who taught him that hard work pays of . Daniel deserves everything that boxing can give and is a true ambassador for his State ,Country and boxing . He beat Mundine last time and lousy point scoring beat him , not only will he beat Mundine he will retire the big mouth , Mundine has crossed the line in talking about Daniel 's family , Daniel won't get mad he will just get even , good on ya mate see you at the fight ..........

Love him or hate him, Mundine knows how to draw a gate and make money. He has learned from his champion Mohammed Ali, who made many outlandish comments and often got the establishment way off side. Sometimes I think he believed what he was saying and other times he was just playing to the audience. Mundine has learnt those lessons. He doesnt care if you hate him or love him, what is important is that you take notice and are prepared to take an interest in him and fork out your pennies to see him strut his stuff. And he is a very good fighter, not great by any stretch, but very good. I must admit I'm amused by some of his outlandish comments that remind me so much of the young Ali. The young radical, giving the bird to the establishment, seemingly taunting his opponents with arrogance, sometimes going too far but we expect that. And no doubt people pay as much to see him lose as to see him win. But in the end he is an entertainer, and quite frankly though not up to Ali's level, a good one. He knows how to get people interested. he knows he has a limited time to make his fortune and get out. And though I think he is proud of his Indigenous Australian heritage, despite his recent comments, and does have some radical ideas, I would suggest that most of the bluster is for show. He obviously works very hard and his body will suffer in the long run as did Ali's. But I suspect when he retires, boxing in Australia will be less for that departure and many of us will probably later look upon him with some fondness, that wild colonial boy

I have looked at both "recent" and past competition, geale has had tough fights against real fighters where as mundine has destroyed sub par fighters. so for me, im not going to pretend to know what to expect from mundine. If mundine fights against geale like he did against otke or echols geale WILL be obliterated, but to be honest there is a slim chance of this happening.

David, look at their recent competition and that will tell you who should be favourite. I felt Geale won the first fight and he should win the second. Much more experienced. Too many angles and a too high work rate.

"all the blackness is gone" LOL! I hate to say it but mundine is to crafty for geale. I want geale to win though.