Why don't you support "the man"

Come on mate 100% fraud.....:huh

I guess it was some other guy punching **** out of Soloman, Green, Echols and Geale to win the titles.....oh and the other 30 guys as well. :yep

And it was some other guy that got beaten in world title fights 3 times....fraud....no way....hype job....yes :hey

 

I'm all for backing local talent, but Mundine has consistently put me off him since his rugby league days, when he continually claimed he was better than every other player in what were obviously desperate pleas for attention. Peter Sterling once summed it up perfectly IMO, when Mundine appeared on the Footy Show shortly after he retired from league to switch to boxing - he said words to the effect that while Mundine was a very talented league player, he wasn't consistently good week-in and week-out, like the other 5/8s in Fittler and Daley, which was more than likely why he was never selected for more rep duties. Mundine just sat there and took it, he didn't deny it or utter a word of disagreement.

I can appreciate his talent, but his arrogance and trashtalking just rubs me up the wrong way and therefore I don't like him, therefore I don't support him.

Before anyone jumps down my throat with:

1."I don't care what a boxer does or says outside the ring, I'm a true boxing fan and appreciate true boxing skills"

What team do you follow and why, in whatever particular sport/s it is you like?

2."It's all just an act, he does it to sell tickets and he is a really nice person in real life":

I don't care if he's not like that in real life, what I see of him is what he presents in the media - I don't know any other side of him and I'm not particularly interested in knowing more about him. Why? Because he presents himself as such an unlikeable person. I don't have to double-think, over-analyse or wonder about it at all, it's simply my natural reaction to people like him. I haven't watched a Mundine fight since Kessler beat him, so anyone who thinks I'm putting money in his pocket by 'falling' for his act can think again.

 

hehehe...that too :yep

 

So the $49.95 you pay NOW allows you to talk about fights from years ago.

Has Anthony asked for your kidney yet?

 

Tell me one thing...who were you going for on that day?

 

i did but he just annoys me now i guess.

 

I paid the money for the Geale fight 5 or 6 months ago and it was one of the best aussie fights I have seen in a long time or ever....granted I'm a nut hugger and not the best judge of history but maybe since Elis vs Barry....better than Green VS Mundine :deal

 

Kessler.

Funny how you try to make out your nuthugging is all a pisstake yet you're always hovering around Mundine threads like a housefly to stick up for him :yep

 

I am a nuthugger 100% and will be long after hes left boxing.....however I do enjoy taking the **** as well :yep ...but I am a big fan. :deal

So you were going for Kessler......so Mundine steps up and fights Kess and you dont go for him :-(

I hope Mundine torments you for the rest of your life.....Maybe picks up a few more vacant blets and a few more divisions.....he could become aust best ever boxer

 

Yep a few Gold Coast fights....Pablo Nevis 2 years ago and Jamie Dowling maybe 4 years ago......however I would rather watch him on tv...hes 2 fast 4 the eyes live :yep

He was very good in the NRL but not the best but very entertaining....he started doing back flips when he scored tries and the crowds loved it.....he started the post try celebration in league :deal

The thing I like is he was the highest paid player when he walked out and took up boxing and he said he would be world champ.....now even though hes regular champ it still took lots of balls to say that.

I thought he would get smashed at Aussie champ level. :deal

The thing everybody here wont give him credit for is coming out and saying he will be champ before his first pro fight :-(

 

haha, see the bitterness in your reply to my supporting of Kessler?

I already explained why I don't support him, yet here you are trying to use the 'he stepped up' argument

Yeah, he 'stepped up' because he had nowhere else to run - he was Kessler's mandatory after coming back from watching him whoop Siaca in Copenhagen having shat himself at ringside. Immediately upon landing back in Australia he called Green out after having refused to fight him for 4 years, hoping to delay or even avoid facing Kessler by bringing Green into the equation. He then fought Darmel Castillo lol before finally facing Kessler.

He vacated his title and moved down to MW to avoid rematching Kessler, yet has only made 160 for 2 fights at MW.

Apart from Green and Soliman, his level of competition since he lost to Kessler has been woeful.

IMO he's a coward. One of those blokes who only participates in something when he does well at it, whenever faced with a true challenge, he looks for a way of avoiding it. He left league because he wasn't getting the attention he craved being involved in a team sport. He may be an athlete, but he's not a sportsman in the true sense of the word.

In regards to your last paragraph, don't hold your breath

 

He benefitted from the panic and paranoia introduced by the Super League war - in 1996 he signed up with SL and jumped ship from St George to the Brisbane Broncos, where he was a benchwarmer for most of 1997.

When SL died, he left Brisbane and St George took him back in 1998, on a high salary - reportedly one of the highest in the game at the time - but he wasn't the only one - Paul Harragon and Andrew Johns were both on higher salaries than Mundine was.

God knows why Saints took him back because he had shown them no loyalty during SL and ended up walking all over them and treating them like **** when he started trying to generate publicity for his pending switch to boxing by simply disappearing and not telling anyone at the club where he was for several weeks, while his manager was making anonymous calls to newspapers saying he'd been sighted at Sydney International airport, in San Francisco, etc.

Brad Fittler and Laurie Daley were consistently chosen before him as NSW and Australian 5/8 - according to Mundine it was due to racist selectors, yet Daley is part-Aboriginal. The selectors also chose many indigenous Australian players in the NSW, QLD and Australian teams and still do. When presented with this fact, Mundine will then switch tactics to tell you that he was blacklisted because he was so outspoken. Again, no respect to Fittler or Daley from him, even though it was their consistency that saw them being chosen for rep duties - according to Mundine, it was only because the selectors didn't like him that these guys were chosen over him.

He was a talented league player in bursts, but wasn't consistent enough every game to be selected for rep duties. This pattern continued into his boxing career - apart from the odd burst of brilliance, overall, his career is quite mediocre.

Explain to me why managing to survive 12 rounds with Kessler makes him a world class boxer? I've watched that fight several times and it is actually a far more decisive victory by Kessler than many think. Mundine was shoeshining at the end of rounds trying to steal them, and really only showed any dominance in short bursts in a couple of the middle rounds.

 

he used a sprained ankle as an excuse and after he lost to Siaca became 2 time by knocking out MW Soliman he was very disrespectful saying something'woooh i knocked his ass out call me 2 time baby'was a good rugby league player.same at both sports much better than average but far from great or elite.