Anthony Mundine Signs With Cameron Dunkin
by Scott Christ on Jan 4, 2012 10:12 PM EST
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WBA interim junior middleweight titlist Anthony Mundine has signed a deal with American manager Cameron Dunkin, Lem Satterfield reports.
"He's been a great champion. He's 36 years old, but he's still an outstanding fighter, and there's great fights out there for him," said Dunkin.
"He could fight Chavez Jr., he could fight Miguel Cotto, or he could fight Canelo. He can fight any of those guys. He's really a 154-pounder, but whoever's a big fight for him, he's ready to go."
Of course we've heard all of this from Mundine himself in the past, and then he never fights any of those big names, he just hangs around in Australia fighting guys like Ryan Waters and Xavier Toliver. And given that he had two fights with novice Garth Wood, losing via TKO and edging a decision win, I don't think it's even that fair to say he's "still an outstanding fighter," but then I don't know that I'd say he was ever an outstanding fighter.
But then I am not high on Mundine, nor have I ever been, and until he proves he's more than a mouth, I likely never will be. On paper, the move to sign with Dunkin indicates he's ready to cash out his career and take the risks he's always avoided. But I'll believe it when I see it, personally.
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After the crap he's said, I want him to fight Cotto and get his jaw launched through his frontal lobe
When I’m bored, I like to match him up with a Klitschko in Fight Night.
In case it isn’t obvious, I’m not fond of Mundine.
by Patrick L. Stumberg on Jan 4, 2012 10:40 PM EST reply actions
I’ve encountered them, via Twitter. They love him. Oh do they love him.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
But why?
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
Run a quick search
And I think Scott and I have explained it plenty of times. Bullet point version – he’s conspicuously ducked several fighters, he’s racist an he’s an all around turd of a human being.
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by Brickhaus on Jan 5, 2012 6:26 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
It's been a long time
But after 9/11, he said something to the effect of “America got what it deserved”. As a New Yorker, who had to breathe that air for a month and a half, whose girlfriend at the time and whose fiancé now both worked in the World Trade Center at the time, I still take personal offense to that. It’s about 10 times worse than Russell Bran getting fired because he showed up to work dressed like Osama Bin Laden the next day.
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by Brickhaus on Jan 5, 2012 7:28 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I just realized.....
Mundine got KTFO by a guy with a record of 9-1-1………
Karma :D
by Mohammedini Hussein on Jan 6, 2012 2:18 PM EST up reply actions
I don’t know why any of those stars would ever want to risk fighting a 36 year old guy that is a virtual unknown in the U.S. outside of very hardcore fans anyways. What would be the point?
@KoryKitchen32 on twitter
I just want him to fight Trout. Austin said about his WBA “regular” title situation, with Cotto the super champ and Mundine the interim, “it’s like being the middle child and your big bro is a dick, and your lil bro is a crybaby that tells lies on you”
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Jan 4, 2012 11:34 PM EST up reply actions
He should have extended the simile with the WBA as the neglectful parents that should really be sterilized.
by bachwards on Jan 5, 2012 12:02 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
I like that too, but It sounds like Dunkin is looking to cash out against the big names…….looking for the “big fight”.
Trout=high risk, low reward.
If Dunkin seriously thinks he’s getting Anthony Mundine in the ring with those guys (well maybe Chavez) he’s as delusional as Mundine.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Jan 5, 2012 12:14 PM EST up reply actions
Mundine has a loyal fan base and I am a huge fan! This is good news! I have met him and away from the spotlight he is nothing like the character he uses to promoter his career. Not every boxer is loved by everybody. As boxing fans surely you are all used to it by now. Come on. Gotta love the hype. I hope shows everyone what he can do. Go Choc!!!
Mundine , has never beaten anybody of stature in the sport and I dont count Geale in a bout which he got a lucky decision or Green who like Geale is just one more Aussie hype job who gained one of the worthless straps of the alphabet boys. I pull my hair out at some of the hype guys in the UK get but the Aussies are just as bad. They fight taxi drivers,overated challengers and washed up ex champions.
by GT BOX the real McCoy on Jan 5, 2012 9:42 AM EST reply actions
Why am I the only one who thinks is not all that bad of a fighter?
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
For a guy with no amateur experience, he’s done amazingly well in his boxing career.
But it gets old hearing him for YEARS wanting to fight the best. Maybe now at 36, he realizes it’s time to step up and go for it.
He realizes it’s time to cash out.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
I think at his peak a few years back he was a decent fighter, but he’s one of boxing’s top BS shovelers.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
He's not a bad fighter
And I’ve never claimed he was. He does, unquestionably in my view, have one of the worst china of any top fighter in the sport. But he’s quick, fairly accurate and has good footwork. At his peak, he was the 3rd or 4th best SMW in the world. At this point, he’s slowed down enough that he’s like a poor man’s version of the current Roy Jones. He did beat Geale closely but not a robbery, but he also lost to Wood and nearly lost to Kim. Anyone with power is a threat to knock him out at this point. Hell, Sven Ottke, who had a gran total of 4 KOs in his career, scored one of them on Mundine. The fact that I just don’t like the guy as a human beig certainly doesn’t help.
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by Brickhaus on Jan 5, 2012 6:53 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Chins, not china
Although I suppose the typo is appropriate.
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by Brickhaus on Jan 5, 2012 6:54 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
he is -- typo
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
But he has some very good scalps on his notch.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
Correction, he has some very good scalps on his belt
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant."
-- Vernon Forrest (1971-2009)
I remember you once cited Ryan Waters as one of those scalps. To say I disagree that Ryan Waters is a good scalp would be an understatement.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Jan 5, 2012 11:28 PM EST up reply actions
'show some respect
You guys forget Mundine was in Ring mags top 5 for 6 consecutive years including 4 years at #3. During that time he fought world #1’s Ottke and Kessler, #3 Echols and #5 Green for 2 wins and 2 losses, he also KO’d Sam Solomin when Winky Wright couldn’t. He then dropped to middle and beat current #2 and IBF champ Geale. He didn’t start boxing until age 25 because he was busy being Australias highest paid rugby league player, league is like gridiron but alot tougher, no padding or helmet just a mouthguard, blocking is illegal and you do your own defence, Mundine played at 190lb and was a superstar.
EVERYTHING YOU LIKE IS BETTER
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Jan 12, 2012 9:57 AM EST up reply actions
stop trying to re-write history
Hey Brickhaus better check with your lawyer before you post a slanderous misquote, Mundine said referring to 9/11 ""they brought it on themselves" meaning after decades of bombing Middle Eastern countries and meddling in their affairs the U.S. have suffered another retaliation attack. His comments were insensitive and poorly timed but correct. No one condones what happened that day, Mundine was as apalled as everyone else, but he’s a man who speaks his mind and tells it how it is, isn’t that something your great country encourages, freedom of speech?
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