Nah, he was already financially committed to fighting Kessler, and as mentioned before, dropping a division wasn't an option at that point in his...
Um, Mundine was campaigning at SMW for the WBA. Kessler was the WBA's SMW titleholder. Mundine was Kessler's mandatory defence. Fighting Kessler...
Kessler never went for the deal of taking a non-mandatory defence before facing Mundine, and I seem to remember Siaca was injured and couldn't...
Here's another article showing that Mundine was looking to put off the Kessler fight for as long as possible - a rematch with Siaca and a fight...
Some interesting stuff from around the time of the Mundine vs Siaca fight:...
:lol:
The Kessler fight was the first fight Roy Jones senior worked with him, and it was RJS who put the idea into Mundine's head of moving down to MW....
I dunno man, I like Kali, and I thought he should have won by ref stoppage vs Brewster, but he was monstered by Rahman in his next fight, and has...
He was Kessler's mandatory and had no way out - he did however immediately challenge Green upon getting off the plane from Copenhagen after seeing...
He certainly looked uncomfortable in there. [IMG] [IMG]
You ****en don't!!! :lol:
About the Taylor fights - first fight was a rallying comeback from nearly being KOd in the second round, the rematch was against a gunshy Taylor...
Jeezus, you guys have got it bad. You're carrying on as if Pavlik vs Calzaghe is the only fight that ever fell through in the history of boxing...
Once again, dependance on your version of events and an effort to determine the outcome of a fantasy match up based on your version of the outcome...
Why didn't PBF make these demands of JMM? :think
