Mundine dreaming of fighting Chavez Jr. on Feb 4th, then facing Wlodarczyk at cruiserweight

By Boxing News - 12/20/2011 - Comments

Image: Mundine dreaming of fighting Chavez Jr. on Feb 4th, then facing Wlodarczyk at cruiserweightBy Jim Dower: Former two time WBA super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine (43-4, 25 KO’s) is hoping to get picked out as the neck challenger for WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to fight on February 4th. Mundine, 36, then wants to move up three divisions and face WBC cruiserweight champion Krzystof Wladarczyk for his cruiserweight belt all within months of each other.

Mundine said to the heraldsun.co.au “I am willing to break boundaries. What I’ve done is sport has never been done before. But what I do in the next five or six years, I want to achieve what could never be matched.”

You have to wonder whether Mundine is in desperate need of money or something because he’s brought his career along very slowly in the past six years, winning the WBA title but not taking on dangerous opposition. Indeed, a lot of the guys Mundine has fought have come from Australia. There hasn’t been an urgency to face world class opposition that live outside of Australia. Mundine is fighting at junior middleweight and isn’t even ranked in the middleweight division. For him to get a fight with Chavez, he would have to hope that they see him an appealing opponent.

It probably isn’t even worth it for Chavez Jr. to waste time fighting Mundine because he doesn’t have a profile in the U.S. Nobody knows who he is because he’s spent too much time fighting in Australia instead of working to build a fan base in the United States. Mundine was beaten by a 2nd tier Australian fighter Garth Wood last year, and although Mundine came back to avenge the loss, there isn’t any reason for Chavez Jr. to face a guy that was recently beaten by a lower level guy.

It seems almost laughable to imagine Mundine moving up all the way to the cruiserweight to take on and beat Wladarczyk. It’s not that Wladarczyk is a great fighter or anything, but rather Mundine isn’t really shining nowadays to contemplate him moving up not one but three divisions to beat Wladarczyk. I think Chavez Jr. would handle him and it would never even get to him fighting Wladarczyk.



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