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Anthony Mundine has signed with American manager Cameron Dunkin. (Photo by Sandra Mu/Getty Images)
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.
Patrick L. Stumberg - January 4, 2012
Hahaha I do the exact same thing.
I don’t think anyone is a Mundine fan.
originaldude - January 5, 2012
I’ve encountered them, via Twitter. They love him. Oh do they love him.
Scott Christ - January 5, 2012
But why?
Boss Man - January 5, 2012
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.
Brickhaus - January 5, 2012 via mobile
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.
Brickhaus - January 5, 2012 via mobile
I just realized.....
Mundine got KTFO by a guy with a record of 9-1-1………
Karma :D
Mohammedini Hussein - January 6, 2012
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?
Kory Kitchen - January 4, 2012
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”
Scott Christ - January 4, 2012
He should have extended the simile with the WBA as the neglectful parents that should really be sterilized.
bachwards - January 5, 2012
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.
DPlainview - January 5, 2012
If Dunkin seriously thinks he’s getting Anthony Mundine in the ring with those guys (well maybe Chavez) he’s as delusional as Mundine.
Scott Christ - January 5, 2012
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!!!
tytey - January 5, 2012
+1
Boss Man - January 5, 2012
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.
GT BOX the real McCoy - January 5, 2012
geez
Boss Man - January 5, 2012
put him in there with trout..i hope this guy doesnt expect to get the cottos and canelos off the world..camerons a good manager but just dont see how he pulls that off
Vicmatic1 - January 5, 2012
Why am I the only one who thinks is not all that bad of a fighter?
Boss Man - January 5, 2012
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.
DPlainview - January 5, 2012
He realizes it’s time to cash out.
Scott Christ - January 5, 2012
I think at his peak a few years back he was a decent fighter, but he’s one of boxing’s top BS shovelers.
Scott Christ - January 5, 2012
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.
Brickhaus - January 5, 2012 via mobile
Chins, not china
Although I suppose the typo is appropriate.
Brickhaus - January 5, 2012 via mobile
he is -- typo
Boss Man - January 5, 2012
But he has some very good scalps on his notch.
Boss Man - January 5, 2012
Correction, he has some very good scalps on his belt
Boss Man - January 5, 2012
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.
Scott Christ - January 5, 2012
'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.
impartial fan - January 6, 2012
EVERYTHING YOU LIKE IS BETTER
Scott Christ - January 12, 2012
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?
impartial fan - January 7, 2012
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