Mundine defeats Alvarez, captures the WBA light middleweight interim title
October 19th, 2011
By Jason Kim: Former two-time WBA super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine (43-4, 25 KO’s) defeated Rigoberto Alvarez (27-4, 20 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision to captured the interim World Boxing Association junior middleweight title on Wednesday night at the Entertainment Centre, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The final judges’ scores were 114-113, 117-111 and 117-111.
Alvarez, ranked #4 by the WBC, is the older brother of WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez. He’s not quite as smooth as Saul is but showed he showed good power on the occasions that he was able to land against Mundine.
To his credit, Mundine took the shots well and didn’t fold up like he did last year when he was shockingly taken out in the 5th round by inexperienced Garth Wood in December 2010. Mundine has since avenged that loss in beating Wood in a rematch by a 10 round decision last April.
The win now puts the 36-year-old Mundine in great position to get a fight against the WBA regular junior middleweight champion Austin Trout in 2012. Mundine has a great chance of beating Trout and picking up another belt.
6 Responses to “Mundine defeats Alvarez, captures the WBA light middleweight interim title”
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Go to the US and stop fighting bums Mundine. Don’t trott out that pathetic excuse that Americans hate you because of your tasteless 9/11 comments. I’m sick of seeing you fight ex garbage collectors and reality show contestants and then proclaiming how great you are. Anyone that gets knocked out by Sven Ottke is hardly great. Fight someone with a pulse. That means having the balls to go to the mecca of boxing, the US, and challenginging yourself. Just like Katsidis, Darchinyan, Briggs, Green, Fenech, Peden etc etc have done.
@ CHORIZO
ha ha ha… True, i shoulda known i was at the fight. cheers for the corection bro, shouldnt have had that last drink… cheers CHORIZO made my day ha ha
Mundine still the best Auzie boxer
Mundine is fast put lacks power/accuracy and has a very poor defence. He can get away with dropping his hands in close against average opposition, but his flaws and lack of basic amateur experience will expose him – if he get’s to fight Trout etc
He is one of the few Australians to sound more like a an American, “Yo Yo, Dude, yunowaddamean man” and all o’ that!
@boxing….dude,thats sauls bro..!!…hahahahahaah read before making a comment!!!
What!! saul is a slow, verry slow, ploding, lunging fighter who my one year old nephew could out box. another meaningless win for mundine, another meaningless title shot. mundine said he wants cottto. cotto he would be sent back to australia in a body bag. cotto may not be what he used to be but he would expose mundine and close his loud obnoctios mouth, for the ten count anyway.