The Man wins the Australian title!

[Sydneyfan]

Anthony "The Man" Mundine won the Australian boxing title (I think it was in the Middleweight division) last night beating defending champ Marc Bargero on the NSW Central Coast.
I'm not too sure how well people know Anthony Mundine outside NSW and Queensland, but he was a high profile Rugby League player who last year deserted a successful career at the St George-Illawarra club to take on boxing. He is the son of former Australian champ, Tony Mundine.
He's very confident and cocky, modelling himself on Muhammed Ali but so far has been able to back up his words with his boxing. Surprising critics along the way. He could be on the way to becoming a successful boxer.

 

[Magpie-Fletch]

Sydneyfan it was actually in the super-middleweight division.

He has been impressive so far but the real test will be when he starts takeing on some quality overseas fighters, none of his defeated opponents so far have been world class.

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[carb70]

Sydneyfan, boxing is as real as wrestling. All the results are fixed.

 

[Catman]

His name should be Anthony "The moron" Mundine.
I can't wait for someone to beat him and deflate that massive ego of his.

 

[jod23]

I think his move to boxing has being justified with his victories and now his title. But he will get killed by any overseas fighters. He is a super middleweight right, what is Kosta then?

 

[creator]

I think Kosta is a super welterweight.

It was great years ago when there was one world champ for each division,and those divisions didn`t have light or super in front of them.

Mundine seems to be imitating Ali.

I hope he can fight as well as him when the opposition gets tougher!!

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[Joey]

All Boxers have a massive ego.

 

[WCE2000]

Kotsya Tszyu is a light welterweight.

Mundine is a good boxer but i still hate his guts. When he comes up against quality opponents he will find the going tough.

If i were Mundines manager this would be my plan for him:
get 'the man' to drop a few pounds and find himself in the middleweight division - the same as Bernard Hopkings. Mundine would then find himself in hospital after that fight.

Muninde would lose about 20-30 pounds while in hospital, but would gain some back. He then finds himself in the light middlewieght division. Mundine, determined as ever to get a world title gets his shot. This time against Felix Trinidad. Then when this fight ended, it would be end of section for 'the man'.

Then we don't have to put up with any more crap for the guy because hes tongue was bitten of from the impact of one of Trinidad's boomers.

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[Magpie-Fletch]

Originally posted by WCE2000:
Kotsya Tszyu is a light welterweight.

Mundine is a good boxer but i still hate his guts. When he comes up against quality opponents he will find the going tough.

If i were Mundines manager this would be my plan for him:
get 'the man' to drop a few pounds and find himself in the middleweight division - the same as Bernard Hopkings. Mundine would then find himself in hospital after that fight.

Muninde would lose about 20-30 pounds while in hospital, but would gain some back. He then finds himself in the light middlewieght division. Mundine, determined as ever to get a world title gets his shot. This time against Felix Trinidad. Then when this fight ended, it would be end of section for 'the man'.

Then we don't have to put up with any more crap for the guy because hes tongue was bitten of from the impact of one of Trinidad's boomers.

Only problem is Trinidad is moving up to Middleweight to fight either William Joppy or Bernard Hopkins, vacting both his Super Welterweight titles in the process.



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"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" -Winston Churchill

 

[Same Old's]

Originally posted by Joey:
All Boxers have a massive ego.

They would probably need one as well.

 

[jod23]

Kosta would kill Mundine!

 

[roccas_babe3623]

ANTHONY MUNDINE IS THE MAN!!!

and a very *HOT* one aswell!!!

i think he will win the world title....he certainly has got the confidence to win it!!!

"GO ANTHONY"

LATERZ

SAV&ANTHONY R SEXY--&gt;36/23 UNTIL FOREVER--&gt;ROCCA BOYZ ROCK MY WORLD!!!

 

[Dont be a lemon]

I don't like Mundine. Comes off as a w***er

 

[dogbloke]

I don't like Mundine. Comes off as a w***er

This. ****ing w***er

 

[Caesar]

Massive w***er. He loses in a knockout to a virtually unknown boxer, then 12 months later he makes the same guy drop down a weight division for a rematch, beats him in a points decision, and then describes the win as "the sign of a legend".

Apparently a pretty nice guy in person, though.

 

[kwame]

I don't like Mundine. Comes off as a w***er

quoted for truth


mundine and lleyton hewitt would easily be australias most hated sports stars... cant stand either of these cocky w***ers and their theatrics

 

[Bulldog Breed]

Yeah I heard he's meant to be a pretty nice person once he gets away from the ring.

 

[deeman12]

He's made a career out of people wanting to see him get KO'd.

He's also fought a heap trash along the way and missed the boat as far fighting in America goes.

 

[La Di Da]

He's made a career out of people wanting to see him get KO'd.

He's also fought a heap trash along the way and missed the boat as far fighting in America goes.

Exactly, he fights nobodies and people still care about the match. Has marketed his image in a very intelligent way, I love it when people actually think that's the way he is, its all an act and everyone is biting.

 

[Asgardian]

I've never bought a Mundine PPV fight, I never will

The bloke just does not have the ability to mix it with the best in the world, so why bother watching 3rd or 4th rate fights?

 

[dogbloke]

He's made a career out of people wanting to see him get KO'd.

He's also fought a heap trash along the way and missed the boat as far fighting in America goes.

Pretty sure for a time no american wanted to fight him after his comments about 9/11

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Pretty sure for a time no american wanted to fight him after his comments about 9/11

Correct, basically consigned his career to fighting here after what he said, although iirc he had one fight for a title in Germany (Sven Otke? maybe) and lost.

As others have posted is meant to be a champion bloke away from the boxing. When he is talking up one of his fights, to me, he comes across as a stammering halfwit who can barely string 2 intelligent words together.

Has he ever beaten anyone credible on even terms?

 

[Caesar]

The thing is, when you look at the top super-middleweights in the last 5 or 6 years there's not many Americans who come to mind. If he'd wanted to test himself against the best he could have.

Has he ever beaten anyone credible on even terms?

No. The only top-shelf opponent he's faced since Ottke was Kessler, and the difference in class showed. God knows what Calzaghe would have done to him.

I've always been a bit disappointed in Mundine's career. He started off really promising - great athlete - but getting KOd by Ottke seemed to scare him silly. Rather than learn from it and improve he regressed into fighting picked opponents and focusing on crappy regional titles, and second tiers.

He's only held two world titles - the WBA and the IBO. IBO belts come in cereal packets, and the WBA wasn't a real world title at the time (Ottke vacated it when he took the super world title, which meant it was basically best of the rest). It shows - when you look at his title defences from his WBA reign there's a lot of "who?"s mixed in with a couple "oh yeah, I remember that guy... bit of a journeyman, was never really good enough".

Perhaps denigrating world titles is a little unfair but I always thought he could do so much better. At the end of the day he's made a profitable career out of not taking too many risks and never challenging himself too much. Which you might say is the smart way to be a professional boxer, if not the most glorious.

 

[Power King]

I don't mind him as he seems to be a superb troll. This thread is is evidence of that.

Boxing-wise his career will best be described as potential unfulfilled.

 

[deeman12]

I'll never come to terms with how he beat Soliman in their first fight. I would have loved for the first re-match to be at Middleweight.