'I'll fight Mundine on October 24th' says Geale

This bloke has nailed him one,bloke called Luke Mcllveen.!!

You suspect Anthony Mundine would like to believe his immense unpopularity in this country is attributable to redneck prejudice against all these things, but the truth is simpler.
We can’t cop Mundine because he isn’t what he says he is – a world champion. Not even close. In the alphabet soup of boxing, he has latched on to obscure titles simply because other, better fighters simply didn’t know (or care) they existed. Claiming them as world titles is like getting into law at Bond University and telling everyone you graduated from Harvard.
In his quieter moments, Mundine must know he wouldn’t cut it in the US. At 34, if he truly thought himself a contender, he would have already tried. His hero Ali was two years younger when he cut down George Foreman, the 25-year-old oak tree, in Kinshasa. Even then, the world’s press was talking about Ali as if he was a kindly old man with a screw loose. For some reason, we talk about Mundine like he hasn’t yet reached his peak.
Mundine doesn’t like to talk at all about the time he fought a world-class boxer. After 10 competitive rounds in January 2001, Sven Ottke from Germany had enough and iced him with a shot to the temple. Mundine was so flat and lifeless on the canvas we all thought he was part of the Budweiser ad. Like a kid once bitten by the neighbourhood dog, Mundine has stayed closer to home since then.
If he ever decides to contest a meaningful title belt, Mundine will likely face an opponent whose personal story is every bit as romantic as The Man’s. Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik, 27, is the son of a waitress from Youngstown, Ohio. Pale and gangly, he looks more like REM frontman Michael Stipe than a pugilist, but Mundine couldn’t hold him.
If Mundine wants to be a world champion then sooner or later he has to fight one. In the meantime, he’s having enough trouble trying to stay on top in the second-rate Australian boxing scene.
Three weeks ago, he fronted up to Brisbane Entertainment Centre to fight Commonwealth Games gold medallist Daniel “The Real Deal” Geale, 29. A tough kid from Launceston now fighting out of Mount Annan in Sydney’s south-west, Geale very nearly got him. If you watch Mundine closely, he has a way of turning his back and head to his opponent every time he gets into trouble. It has the effect of forcing the referee to separate and the other boxer loses the moment. Geale’s answer – and it was the right one – was to simply hit him in the back of the head.
For the record, I think Mundine won the fight, but as usual any respect he might have gained was wiped away by the juvenile crap he carried on with during and after the bout.
There was the faulty tape around his gloves that kept coming unstuck and hanging loose at the most convenient times, earning him a breather mid-round so it could be fixed. There was the refusal to hold his opponent’s hand at the finish, as if Geale was somehow unworthy of his acknowledgment. Geale is now appealing the judges’ decision and Mundine has made another enemy when he needn’t have.
At Sydney’s Five Dock RSL club the other week, hundreds of fight fans packed in to see whether this would be the one to shut Mundine up for good. When he emerged the winner, the place cleared quicker than a nursing home on bingo day. They didn’t want to hear him talking in that silly faux-Kentucky accent he uses to mimic Ali. They have stopped listening.
Mundine is not “divisive,” because that word suggests opinion is evenly split. He has reached the stage where the public only turns up to see him lose – and you sense that time is not far away.

 

Rugby league premiership (97)
State of origin all 3 games '99
3 time world champion over two weights
Beat aussie best (Geale, Soliman, Green)
Avenged only ever aussie defeat
current interim champion in a 3rd weight in deceding order.
Top 20 music (Knock you out, with modern day poets)
successful album (platinum rider)
Clothing and sporting line (boxa)
Great role model for the kids
clean lifestyle
lots of charity and good work

I'd say he has done plenty..
And there is more in the tank

Soon to be 4 time world champ in his 3rd weight class when he gets goin in america

 

you forgot the '99 grand final where he knocked on over the try line and lost the game for the dragons......

 

lol

 

Altogethernow , choc would b proud.

 

Tend to agree, Whopper's cool, a little delusional at times :yep, but not ridiculous and downright offensive like this other tool.

You can be a fan of someone and still be rational, but I think like Stifflersmum said, they just do it for the rev up.

BTW, Teke is a cool Mandy hugger too.

 

Haha, delusional ? No way.

 

^ Come on now Sox! I thought we were in the bunny bra?
We tight yo?

 

Nah, you're far too irrational for me, I can't keep up.
A few weeks ago we actually had a sensible discussion, but beyond that you've lost the plot.

Full moon perhaps? :huh

 

haha, ur alright sox

 

I dont know how any1 could hate on a guy like daniel geale..The guy has gone about becoming a champ the good old fashioned way..amateur ranks..then grind his way through the pro ranks leading to him having to take the leap overseas in hostile waters against a reigning champ...All done so with little fanfare and nothing but a genuine good guy attitude..

Yet people still bag on the guy...

Its so strange.

 

^ When his fans stop bagging Choc for the exact things that they praise Dan for, I'll let it slide.
It is not cool for Geale fans to talk about Choc "ducking" Trout etc (even though facts are choc originally offered good money for the fight), then ignore Geale confirmed ducking 3 w/t fights (Sturm, Martinez, Golovkin).
It is not cool for Geale fans to bag choc on tin can opponents, when Geale's record of opponent is far worse, with a large history of fighting fighters with massive losing percentages. Recently feasting on pathetic Kariuki and then defending against Albert.

Also, Choc beat Geale plain and simple!

So you are correct, nothing wrong with Geale at all... But either his fans can relax on the finger pointing at Choc (for the exact things Geale does) or simple reality needs to be relayed.

 

^ The little fan fare part is moot!
The only reason he has had no fanfare is he has no personality and is not a person of interest in australia.
He has few fans, sells little to no PPV's and is largely unknown in his own country outside of 2000 or so boxing fans, and tasmania.

 

Garth Wood lol.

 

^ Agreed, Was great that Choc avenged that like a true champion.
Should be interesting to see if Geale doesn't continue to duck soliman how that pans out.
I have wide ud for soliman.