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Event: Mundine vs. Zerafa
Date: March 13, 2021
Broadcast: TBD
Start time: TBD
Venue: Bendigo Stadium



Mundine vs Zerafa Fight Card

Vacant WBA Oceania Middleweight Title
Anthony Mundine vs. Michael Zerafa

WBA Oceania Light Heavyweight Title
Blake Caparello vs. Mose Auimatagi Jnr

Cherneka Johnson vs. Bianca Elmir

Jesse White vs. Lachlan Higgins

Benjamin Bommber vs. TBA

Josh Nesbitt vs. Sonni Michael Angelo

Christian Pocev vs. TBA

Mason Smith vs. TBA

Josh Gottschalk vs. TBA

Sam Abdulrahim vs. Harjinder Singh

*Date and time are local unless specified otherwise.

**Fight card subject to change.

Thought Mundine was gonna call it quits after he lost to Horn in 1 round.

I'll go with Zerafa tko 8

will mundine be a PPV draw till he is 80?

Perseus wrote: ↑03 Mar 2021, 21:58 I'll go with Zerafa tko 8

Thinking he will be lucky to mate it out of 4. Mundine is seriously old now. Any fighting fit and adequately skilled boxer (like Zerafa) around that weight class hurts him, in my opinion.

Ridiculous fight that shouldn’t be sanctioned.

Anthony Mundine plans to retire “win, lose or draw” after Michael Zerafa fight

Australian veteran Anthony Mundine 48-10 (28) says he expects to retire after his fight against Michael ‘Pretty Boy’ Zerafa 27-4 (16) at Bendigo Stadium in Bendigo, Australia on Saturday night.

Speaking at a media conference in Melbourne on Thursday, he revealed the fight will “more than likely be my last fight, win, lose or draw”.

The 45-year-old Sydneysider is almost 20 years removed from his first world title shot when he travelled to Germany to face master boxer Sven Ottke for the IBF super middleweight title. Mundine surprised Ottke early with his speed, jab and defence but faded late to be knocked out in the 10th.

Victory over hard-hitting American Antwun Echols for the WBA super middleweight championship would follow nine fights later and in 2006 he scored his flagship win over domestic rival Danny Green.

Those fights seem a lifetime ago now. Mundine has won just four of his last 10 bouts. In his last outing he lost on points to legendary Muay Thai fighter John Wayne Parr.

But Mundine believes the burden is on Zerafa to perform ahead of their fight while conceding it will likely be his last time in the prize ring.

“All the pressure is on him,” Mundine said. “I have had a tremendous career… I am just ready to turn up. He’s the one that has to deliver.

“I am a 7-1 underdog but I am coming to fight. I have got nothing to prove, but I have always said I want to go out on a winning note.”

For Zerafa there is much more on the line. The 28-year-old Melburnian has been agitating for a fight against Australia’s hottest commodity Tim Tszyu 17-0 (13) who will take on two-time world title challenger Dennis ‘Hurricane’ Hogan 28-3-1 (7) at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre in Newcastle, Australia on March 31.

The 26-year-old Tszyu had a stellar 2020, knocking out former WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn in eight rounds in Townsville in August and scoring a highlight-reel first-round knockout of world-rated Kiwi Bowyn Morgan 21-2 (11) in the Sydney suburb of Paramatta in December.

Zerafa will be fighting Mundine in the same Bendigo ring where he knocked out Horn in nine rounds in their first fight in August 2019 before losing a controversial decision in Brisbane four months later.

“I am super switched on, I am super strong,” Zerafa said. “It’s 10 rounds, I am in no rush. I have been training twice, three times a day, seven days a week, I have been in sparring camps… against bigger boys.

“I want Tim Tszyu. I am in that reach… I want to be involved in the biggest fights. Everyone forgets I knocked out Jeff Horn first. Horn didn’t want a trilogy, Tszyu didn’t want to fight, had excuses.

“For me, I want bigger and better. That’s why this fight means so much to me.”

When’s main event?

I would guess late so that its after the footy. but i dont know.

gregregegg wrote: ↑13 Mar 2021, 04:19 I would guess late so that its after the footy. but i dont know.

In an hour or 2?

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑13 Mar 2021, 04:42

gregregegg wrote: ↑13 Mar 2021, 04:19 I would guess late so that its after the footy. but i dont know.

In an hour or 2?

My guess is 10:30pm Melbourne time but fights have been later then that in the past. That is two hrs from now.

lazboy wrote: ↑13 Mar 2021, 04:44

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑13 Mar 2021, 04:42

gregregegg wrote: ↑13 Mar 2021, 04:19 I would guess late so that its after the footy. but i dont know.

In an hour or 2?

My guess is 10:30pm Melbourne time but fights have been later then that in the past. That is two hrs from now.

Thanks..

What's up there, is Mundine already KOed?

Zerafa massacres Mundine in one

Middleweight Michael Zerafa (28-4, 17 KOs) ended the career of 45-year-old former world champion Anthony Mundine (48-11, 28 KOs) with a first round demolition on Saturday night at Bendigo Stadium in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Zerafa dropped Mundine twice in a one-sided slaughter to claim the vacant WBA Oceania middleweight title.

In an upset, WBA #3, WBC #6, WBO #8, IBF #14 light heavyweight Blake Caparello (30-4-1, 13 KOs) lost a unanimous decision to Faris Chevalier (12-1, 7 KOs). Scores were 97-93 across the board.

At least he's finally retired.

This time he should retire for real. Being demolished by Zerafa is a terrible sign.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑13 Mar 2021, 08:26 Zerafa massacres Mundine in one

It just couldn't be otherwise.

middle
Michael Zerafa 27 4 0
:idea:
Anthony Mundine 48 10 0
vacant World Boxing Association Oceania Middle Title

Zerafa by 1st round KO

what a surprise.
knocked senseless again, lol.
shame on zerafa for picking on a corpse. He has zero class at all imo.