Mundine heading to light middleweight

[whiskey]

Be good to see Rhodes close this big mouth up eh?

http://www.livefight.com/news.php?news_ ... =2009&m=12



Anthony Mundine stepping down to light middle

04.12.09

Australia's Anthony Mundine is stepping down to the 154lb limit to take on a coalminer from Sydney called Robert Medley for the miner's IBO light middleweight title.

Mundine, who spoke out recently about 'clearing up the middleweight division' against the likes of Kelly Pavlik and Arthur Abraham has so far fought Crazy Kim, Rafael Sosa Pintos, Shannan Taylor, Daniel Geale and Alejandro Gustavo Falliga - hardly the cream of the world middleweight scene as he predicted.

Mundine was cut and dropped by Crazy Kim, a Tokyo native and his fight with Australian Daniel Geale ended amidst split decision controversy.

Mundine, who has lost to Mikkel Kessler, Purerto Rican Manny Siaca and alarmingly knocked out by 'light punching' Sven Ottke is currently ranked no7 by the Ring magazine ratings.

Mundine, who's ring nickname is 'The Man' also declared that he intends to change it to the 'Pioneer' on account of his weight dropping 'achievements'.


"From this date forth, I don't want to be known as Anthony 'The Man' Mundine. I want to be known as Anthony 'The Pioneer' Mundine.

"I'm into doing s**t, being the pioneer, and doing stuff that ain't been done and this is a history-making fight."

"I'm the best. I am going to be the first fighter in the history of time - I mean, we're talking thousands and hundreds of thousands of fighters and greats, legends - no one's done this, what I'm about to do.

"That's why I'm going to be 'The Pioneer'."

Meanwhile his light middleweight opponent thinks Mundine will be tailor made for him at his natural weight.

"Too much of a mouth mate. He never shuts it up," the 28-year-old Medley said.

The fight looks set to take place on January the 11th 2010 at the Sydney Entertainment centre.

[Adamj1987]

he never won a title and middle the IBO doesnt count so he can fight sturm and then move down i'd be happy then

[gobbles]

Be good to see Rhodes close this big mouth up eh?

http://www.livefight.com/news.php?news_ ... =2009&m=12



Anthony Mundine stepping down to light middle

04.12.09

Australia's Anthony Mundine is stepping down to the 154lb limit to take on a coalminer from Sydney called Robert Medley for the miner's IBO light middleweight title.

Mundine, who spoke out recently about 'clearing up the middleweight division' against the likes of Kelly Pavlik and Arthur Abraham has so far fought Crazy Kim, Rafael Sosa Pintos, Shannan Taylor, Daniel Geale and Alejandro Gustavo Falliga - hardly the cream of the world middleweight scene as he predicted.

Mundine was cut and dropped by Crazy Kim, a Tokyo native and his fight with Australian Daniel Geale ended amidst split decision controversy.

Mundine, who has lost to Mikkel Kessler, Purerto Rican Manny Siaca and alarmingly knocked out by 'light punching' Sven Ottke is currently ranked no7 by the Ring magazine ratings.

Mundine, who's ring nickname is 'The Man' also declared that he intends to change it to the 'Pioneer' on account of his weight dropping 'achievements'.


"From this date forth, I don't want to be known as Anthony 'The Man' Mundine. I want to be known as Anthony 'The Pioneer' Mundine.

"I'm into doing s**t, being the pioneer, and doing stuff that ain't been done and this is a history-making fight."

"I'm the best. I am going to be the first fighter in the history of time - I mean, we're talking thousands and hundreds of thousands of fighters and greats, legends - no one's done this, what I'm about to do.

"That's why I'm going to be 'The Pioneer'."

Meanwhile his light middleweight opponent thinks Mundine will be tailor made for him at his natural weight.

"Too much of a mouth mate. He never shuts it up," the 28-year-old Medley said.

The fight looks set to take place on January the 11th 2010 at the Sydney Entertainment centre.

Interesting that Australia seems to be taking over as the latest home of IBO "world" titles. Judging by the Green-Jones commentary mentioned elsewhere it seems the IBO is going back to its day job of merely giving out fringe belts.

[banjo]

This man is a first class prat, it's sad to think that there is actually some talent there but no substance.

[banjo]

he never won a title and middle the IBO doesnt count so he can fight sturm and then move down i'd be happy then

He did hold the WBA super middleweight title a couple of times.

[whiskey]

he never won a title and middle the IBO doesnt count so he can fight sturm and then move down i'd be happy then

He did hold the WBA super middleweight title a couple of times.

Did someone pass it him to have a fettle ?

[Adamj1987]

he never won a title at middle the IBO doesnt count so he can fight sturm and then move down i'd be happy then

He did hold the WBA super middleweight title a couple of times.

the and was supposed to be at, i know he had the WBA title twice i just meant he didnt have a decent middle belt

[Datsue]

Interesting that Australia seems to be taking over as the latest home of IBO "world" titles. Judging by the Green-Jones commentary mentioned elsewhere it seems the IBO is going back to its day job of merely giving out fringe belts.

The IBO never had any cachet anyway. It only gained a smidgen of respectability (& that was a bastardised half-arsed smidgen of respectability by proxy) when top fighters decided to give up "real" sanctioning bodies' belts this decade, when HBO started making personalities bigger than the championships they fought for; the IBO -- having no actual criteria for fighting for one of their trinkets -- were happy to give them away in crackers before Barrera & Tarver & Hatton & co. started snapping up their vacant titles as substitutes so retarded TV announcers could say the words "World Championship contest" & not lie too egregiously.

Anyone who ever viewed the "Yeah, it's a world title, but we don't care who you defend it against" IBO as anything other than a giver-out of fringe belts needs their head looking at. It was always HBO (& the meedja stars they made of certain fighters) who determined the belts' worth; now the Big Four are being much more accomodating ("six different fighters contesting fragments of the same belt on the same night, you say? Oh, on thesame bill? Of course we can accomodate you! How big is that cheque again?") in the amount of belts that are handed out, the IBO have gone back to their operation on the fringes, where they always belonged.

Sorry, didn't mean to rant. I agree with the day job bit you wrote (need more caffeine), it just depresses me that boxing fans can be gulled so easily ("A famous fighter's fighting for it! It must be good!").

[Poncey]

Let's just hope he doesn't have eye surgery again.

World class spanner.

[The_Don1]

he never won a title and middle the IBO doesnt count so he can fight sturm and then move down i'd be happy then

He did hold the WBA super middleweight title a couple of times.

Yeah but he won the 'regular' version on the both occasions, he was never the real champ

[oliverfennell]

he never won a title and middle the IBO doesnt count so he can fight sturm and then move down i'd be happy then

He did hold the WBA super middleweight title a couple of times.

Yeah but he won the 'regular' version on the both occasions, he was never the real champ

Yep, both times there was a "super" champion as well, i.e. they were the REAL WBA champs.

[Adamj1987]

Yep, both times there was a "super" champion as well, i.e. they were the REAL WBA champs.

I'm still happy to class WBA regualr champ ahead of the IBO full champ
so i'll credit him with the 2 reigns at super middle but not his middle title reign - i blame hatton, wlad and tarver for this IBO belt nonsense. if you want to see a real IBO world champ look at the welter one

[steve689]

He hasn't done anything at Middleweight yet.

[Adamj1987]

He hasn't done anything at Middleweight yet.

2 fights 1 decent one against geale

[Autobarn]

mundine is so talented but i am APPALLED at how he has thrown it away after the masterclass v danny green in one of the biggest all-oz fights ever - yes, green machine can fight a bit as he's shown since losing to mundine - and since demolishing sam soliman, in another great performance.

going down in weights, diminishing performances, nonsense titles (WBA "regular" and IBO). to think what little jeff fenech did GOING UP 4 weights, outslugging good and even great fighters.

shame on mundine on his quest to avoid anything to do with power. this man could have beaten mikkel kessler, if only he'd applied himself during the fight and forgot about his nosebleed for more than 30 seconds.

i did enjoy his war with daniel geale, though. that made it sort of worthwhile.