Mundine vs. Waters on Wednesday
September 13th, 2010
By Jason Kim: Former super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine (39-3, 23 KO’s) will continue his practice of fighting mostly domestic opposition on Wednesday night when he takes on fellow Australian Ryan Waters (20-2-2, 12 KO’s) in light middleweight action at the Entertainment Centre, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
It’s hard to see what Mundine’s reasoning is for taking on this obscure opponent, as he’s not well known and not the kind of guy that the 35-year-old Mundine should be fighting at this late stage in his career if he wants to attract attention.
It’s been four years since Mundine fought what you could consider a competitive opponent when he took on Danny Green in 2006. Since then, Mundine has faced largely beatable guys and not ones that would give him too many problems.
It’s unfortunate because Mundine could potentially be one of the biggest stars in boxing right now had he pushed himself by taking on the best fighters in the middleweight, super middleweight and junior middleweight divisions.
Instead, we see Mundine fighting mostly Australian fighters. Don’t get me wrong, there are some good fighters in Australia but he’s missed out on a lot of fighters from other parts of the world.
Mundine should be going after guys like Cotto, Kermit Cintron, Paul Williams, Sergio Martinez, Lucian Bute, Alfredo Angulo, and Sergeii Dzinziruk instead of Waters, Carlos Adan Jerez, Robert Medley, and Alejandro Gustavo Falliga, to name just a few of the kinds of guys Mundine has been fighting lately.
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Mundine is the best fighter auzie have
So he don’t have chance to fight big fighter
Vlad your embarrasment to be born you have no idea about it let alone boxing, so its 2 aussies we have, you and danny green lmao.
Mundine is an embarrasment to Aussie Boxing . In Fact World Boxing . I hope this unknown nobody Waters knocks this fool out for good. And also his silly manager Khoder Nasser. These 2 idiots have turned boxing into a serious joke down under.
Why would Cotto want to fight a guy that nobody outside Australia even knows. The few times he has faced a good fighter he has lost.Cotto as at a different level to Mundine.
@b0x1ng ud rather stick to enjoying both like I do watching football and rugby.
its thanks to fighters like mundine and mayweather that boxing is in intensive care. wana see real fighters, guys that claim to be the best, and step up to the plate to prove it….. check out the ufc… brakes me hart to say it, as boxing was always my fist love but its true
Lets Face it, We all know Mundine is a psy . He hasn’t fought a credible opponent since Danny Green in 2006. He’s a joke & is in Boxing just to make money off pay per view fighting nobodies. If he beats Waters, Mundine will find a s excuse not to face Miguel Cotto. He chickened out of a fight with Gennady Golovkin after have a WBA Middle Weight Title shot. His reason for saying no to Golovkin? He could not find motivation to fight . WDF? A WBA title & no motivation?? World Boxing knows Mundine is a py & a serious joke .
Mundine should not even be ranked in top 10 Ring Mag
Tony, Anthony’s Father; gained more adoration in defeat that Anthony has done in any victory. Anthony always talks himself up amongst the names on Calzaghe, Cotto, Pavlik etc….even stating that he could beat Mayweather. He, nevertheless, plays in his own backyard sucking the fanbase of their hardearned cash with some promise of ‘tomorrow’. This is not pro boxing imv, it is a Hybrid version similar to Wrestling. Let’s get back to Commonwealth titles, then world titles. Fighting mandatory challengers not the likes of Waters (good up and coming fighter that he is). As I have said before, if it wasn’t for the likes of Katsidis flying the flag we would have no global presence.
@ grAnt
mundins father, tony may not have won a word title, that’s true, but the guys ya fought back then for a Aussie title, or a commonwealth title would be to hard for most of the guys today. fighting for a Aussie title back then is the equivalent of fighting for a world title in this day and ages alphabet group.
mundine had no amature back ground and in his tenth fight he fought sven ottke who was then the undefeated world champ and mundine was winning on points before he got ko’d..how can you take anythng away from him.hes acheived more than his father tony.stop hating,go through boxrec.com and look at the first 30 fights of YOUR favorite boxer and tell me if they are all world class…i cant wait for mundine v cotto…
Sadly Anthony Mundine has turned out a disappointment for us here. A good athlete and capable fighter, I think he has concentrated too much much on talking about being “the man” instead of just being it. I see some logic in going down a division, if you are collecting different belts in different weights as seems to be in vogue at the moment, but i agree, domestic competition isn’t going to do him or the sport in this country any favours.
Michael