Mundine to fight for world title in 2011

When is the weigh in?

 

So now your 'done arguing this shitty point' after some nice research by CHB when yesterday you made numerous posts to validate your point.

Riiiiiiiiiiiight.

 

:yep

He wishes to appear to be above any petty semantics

 

I acknowledge the whole idea of an interim "champion" was bull**** but the reality is it's still happening and in this situation all that matters. So don't confuse me not wanting to defend the org and title with me backing down.

Chb found the rule book.... Wen was the last time rules ment anything in boxing. A quick google search will reveal the multiple WBA interim title defenses made while regular champ was still active. It's even said that rigo is defending his title against mundine.

It is bull**** and just an eliminator but the winner still gets a belt and is able to call himself champ. Here is an example from Danny green...

reality check. he never beat beyer.

Irnie i love arguing petty semantics especially if I get to say u loose and if the man wins tonight u will.

On another note can u please explain ur feelings wen u said this....

So by ur own admission the interim title is comparable to the regular / full titles that mundine had held at the time of ur bias comments?

Geeez Irnie make up ur mind, title is either real or not.

 

If only Ash was here.

 

my tab betting ticket states non title fight for tonight event so it appears so

 

Impressive performance by Mundine.

Admittedly Alvarez' plodding, minimal latteral movement style was tailor made for Mundine, but he exploited it to the max and made Alvarez look very ordinary indeed.

Performances like last night only emphasize why Mundine should have stepped up a couple of years ago instead of wasting his time fighting nobodies.

Perhaps Mundine can now go on and complete the 3 world titles in descending order that he's be crowing about? He'll need to beat Trout in order to achieve that though.

But the win against Alvarez ensures Mundine is now Trout's mandatory challenger.

 

I didn't stay up nor did i even care this morning when the news was on, funny thing was even the mainstream news broadcast gave it much of a mention.

It sounds like he did ok.......... i did watch a video of the opponent and he did look slow.

One judge had it 114-113 ............ was that a wrong score

 

Mundine set for third world title shot

by Brett Keeble - The Newcastle Herald - 20th October 2011

ANTHONY ‘‘The Man’’ Mundine remains on track for an unprecedented third world title in descending weight divisions after a unanimous points decision over Mexican Rigoberto Alvarez in their interim World Boxing Association junior middleweight title fight at Newcastle Entertainment Centre last night.

Already a world champion fighting as a super-middleweight and middleweight, Mundine aspires to become the first man in boxing history to win a third belt dropping in weight.

He will pursue a shot at WBA junior middleweight champ Austin Trout.

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‘‘Bring on that sucker, man,’’ said Mundine, who improved his record to 43 wins from 47 fights since retiring from rugby league and embarking on his professional boxing career in 2000.

‘‘He’s been saying this, saying that, so bring it on, Austin. Let’s see what you’ve got, baby.’’

Trout won a unanimous decision over Alvarez when they fought for the WBA junior middleweight belt in Guadalajara, Mexico, in February.

Judges Jean-Francois Toupin (114-113), Wansoo Yuh (117-111) and Jason Garcia (117-111) all scored last night’s fight to Mundine.

The 36-year-old recovered from a second-round scare, when he was pinned on the ropes, to control the rest of the contest against the former interim world champion.

Alvarez was a warrior, absorbing Mundine’s best shots and giving as good as he got, but the multi-skilled Australian always felt he had the Mexican’s measure.

‘‘It was definitely one of them,’’ Mundine said, when asked if he fought one of the best fights of his career.

Alvarez looked most dangerous in the clinch, brawling on the ropes, but Mundine controlled the open ring with his longer reach, speed and boxing skills.

Mundine inflicted a cut to Alvarez’s left eye in the fourth round and attacked the bleeding wound in the fifth. He regularly landed shots to Alvarez’s head but neither fighter looked like knocking their opponent out.

Referee Takeshi Shimakawa warned Alvarez three times for low blows.

 

CHB are you now a converted Mundine fan hahaha!

 

Have always called it exactly how I see it, and last night he fought a reasonably highly rated opponent and schooled him.

 

Good sht! :good

So what do you think his chances are against Trout and do you now still beilive that he was trying to duck him or do you now feel that there may have been some legitimacy to Mundines claims regarding the breakdown in negotiations for Trout v Mundine initally?

 

The only people who'll ever know the truth about those negotiations are the two managers - and the fallout afterwards proves that at least one of them is absolutely full of ****.

Now that Mundine is officially Trout's mandatory, it gives Mundine the opportunity to attempt to win his 3rd world title in descending order.

Time will tell whether he actually takes up that opportunity.

 

i wasnt impressed. he fought a bloke slower than me, that couldnt knock the skin off a rice pudding.

put the has been in against a live opponent for ****s sake. but we all know it will never happen. he dogs the real fights.

 

The Direction Mundine is going shows that it was Trouts people who were playing games, not Mundine. He wants a WT title badly he wouldnt risk not getting the crack over some petty amount of money as some have suggested however options on his next future fights is just bullsht, Danny Green wouldnt agree to it either when the Germans demanded it so why should Mundine? was my thinking

I think the writing is now on the wall, Trout v Mundine will be a good fight and should Mundine win it puts him in a good position to fight the guys he has been claiming he wants to fight.