Has the Mundine circus run its race at ESB - sure looks like it

Let's hope the 2nd half is a whole lot more adventurous, better planned and more successful than the first half then Teke.

Have always stated on ESB that when he steps up I'll be in his corner...........and still waiting!

 

Khoder's big top plays Woollongong tomorrow night and nobody seems to care.


Mundine vs Waters

By Jason Kim - Boxing News 24 - 13th Sept 2010

Former super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine (39-3, 23 KO’s) will continue his practice of fighting mostly domestic opposition on Wednesday night when he takes on fellow Australian Ryan Waters (20-2-2, 12 KO’s) in light middleweight action at the Entertainment Centre, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

Mundine, 35, is ranked number #2 by the World Boxing Association and is in a great position to be taking on WBA champion Miguel Cotto in the near future if Mundine is interested. Waters, 31, is ranked number #8 by the WBA, but has fought strictly B level opposition during his career.

It’s hard to see what Mundine’s reasoning is for taking on this obscure opponent, as he’s not well known and not the kind of guy that the 35-year-old Mundine should be fighting at this late stage in his career if he wants to attract attention.

It’s been four years since Mundine fought what you could consider a competitive opponent when he took on Danny Green in 2006. Since then, Mundine has faced largely beatable guys and not ones that would give him too many problems.

It’s unfortunate because Mundine could potentially be one of the biggest stars in boxing right now had he pushed himself by taking on the best fighters in the middleweight, super middleweight and junior middleweight divisions.

Instead, we see Mundine fighting mostly Australian fighters. Don’t get me wrong, there are some good fighters in Australia but he’s missed out on a lot of fighters from other parts of the world.

Mundine should be going after guys like Cotto, Kermit Cintron, Paul Williams, Sergio Martinez, Lucian Bute, Alfredo Angulo, and Sergeii Dzinziruk instead of Waters, Carlos Adan Jerez, Robert Medley, and Alejandro Gustavo Falliga, to name just a few of the kinds of guys Mundine has been fighting lately.

 

If he fights below his ability level long enough, eventually someone will get lucky and knock him over - perhaps it'll be Waters tonight?

He'll then be faced the delima of whether he should try and avenge the loss - and risk further embarrassment, ring Danny Green and organise their superannuation bout, or probably more sensibly, hang 'em up.