When will Team Boxa get their story straight?

How does refusing to enter a purse bid to face Golovkin for the vacant WBA MW title equate to a fight against Alvarez?

ANTHONY MUNDINE'S manager, Khoder Nasser, will seek to have the three-time world champion reinstated as the No.1 contender for the WBA junior middleweight title following his defeat of Garth Wood.

Mundine was the mandatory challenger, and had been set for a bout with Rigoberto Alvarez before his shock loss to Wood but he subsequently slipped down the WBA rankings to seventh before Wednesday night's rematch in Brisbane. In the meantime, Alvarez has fought American Austin Trout and lost a unanimous points decision in January.

Nasser now hopes to organise a fight between Mundine and Trout later this year, and will argue that Mundine should be reinstated to his previous position after gaining revenge on Wood. The move puts paid to a third bout between Mundine and Wood in the immediate future as the 35-year-old former NRL star intends to focus on the lighter division after moving up to middleweight to fight The Contender winner.

Before his loss to Wood, Mundine's previous fights had been at junior middleweight against Argentina's Carlos Aden Jerez and countryman Ryan Waters. He is keen to fight in Auckland on the June 5 card of good friend Sonny Bill Williams, whom he phoned after having seven stitches inserted above his right eye on Wednesday night, and it is expected that bout would be at junior middleweight.

''My ultimate goal is to test my skills against the best,'' Mundine said. ''I want to win the junior middleweight title - that's my goal this year.''
After being KO'd by Wood in their previous fight at Acer Arena, Mundine said he had refused to look past the rematch, and admitted he begun to question whether he could achieve his goal of becoming the first boxer to win world titles in three divisions in descending order.

"I doubted myself a lot of times,'' he said. ''That's what reignited my hunger. And I was losing that for a long time. I was being complacent and not paying attention to detail. I had my doubts. You have to ask yourself the question. But I said, 'This is your time. Are you going to let him take your thunder?' That's why the result ended the way it did."
Despite the unanimous points decision, Mundine said he could have won the bout a lot more easily, but had got sucked into Wood's ugly, brawling style.

''People have to understand I am fighting a guy who is as desperate as an Ethiopian for dinner basically,'' Mundine said. ''I know that is a bad way to put it, and may God bless those who don't eat, but that is how desperate he was.

''He was as dirty as, and I didn't expect it in the first fight, which is probably why he came out on top but I was ready this time. He was probably more desperate in this fight than the first one to try and prove he could beat me but I rose to the occasion. That is not just a sign of a champion, that is the sign of a legend.''

[url]http://www.smh.com.au/sport/boxing/man-should-return-to-top-of-the-tree-nasser-20110414-1dg1n.html[/url]

 

Oops, I get it - Alvarez holds the WBA LMW title.

I guess I've just never taken Mundine's intention to move down to 154 seriously since he's never actually fought at that weight, despite the Medley fight was supposed to be at JMW.

So, he ducks Golovkin at MW, agrees to fight Medley at 154 then makes him come up to MW, gets KO'd by Wood at MW, has a close points win over Wood in their rematch, and thinks he can drop to 154 and take on the WBA world champ?

 

True that, both Green and Mundine have both elevated (levitated?) to 'legend' status now