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The fall-out from Friday night's boxing bout between Danny Green and Anthony Mundine has continued with Mundine suggesting he may appeal against the result and also calling Green a "b*tch."
A shattered Anthony Mundine labelled his controversial loss to Danny Green the worst of his career because he knows he won the fight. The decision to award Green a controversial majority decision in the pair’s Adelaide Oval bout was met with widespread dismay in boxing circles.
It was far from pretty and not without controversy, but Danny Green avenged his loss to Australian rival Anthony Mundine on Friday in North Adelaide, Australia. Green defeated Mundine by majority decision in a 10-round, foul-filled cruiserweight fight that lacked conclusive action, yet was closely contested and challenging to score. The 43-year-old Green won on two scorecards (96-94, 98-90), while a third judge had it even (94-94). Green and Mundine had a point apiece taken away – Mundine in the first round, Green in the seventh – for illegal blows. There were no knockdowns during a fight that drew a crowd in excess of 26,00 to Adelaide Oval, despite that the former champions are well past their primes.
Anthony Mundine says he'll prove he's the most explosive Australian athlete ever. And Danny Green just wants to smash him. The Australian pugilists may be past their boxing primes ahead of their bitter bout on Friday night in Adelaide - Green is 43, Mundine 41. But they can still trash talk.
Anthony Mundine reckons he’s misunderstood. He’s really quite humble. He’s not trying to divide Australia, but unite and educate it. He doesn’t court controversy, just speaks his mind.
Danny Green says he won't retire from boxing again. "I will retire when they're putting me in the dirt, that is when I will retire," Green said ahead of his bitter bout with Anthony Mundine on Friday night. "I just won't retire, then I won't have to come out of retirement, make it easy."
Former world champion Anthony Mundine has once again created controversy, by stating that he won't stand for the national anthem before his rematch against rival Danny Green on Friday at Adelaide Oval. The former professional rugby league player told SBS the anthem was an insult to Indigenous people, and should be changed.
If Anthony Mundine pulls this off, people will have to start calling him the black Houdini. That's the belief of the former rugby league star, who takes on bitter rival Danny Green in a highly-anticipated boxing rematch on February 3. The 43-year-old Mundine will likely be giving up as much as 13 kilograms in weight to Green by the time the pair step into the ring at Adelaide Oval.
Danny Green has dismissed talk of a weight mismatch in his long-awaited boxing rematch with old foe Anthony Mundine. The pair will do battle at Adelaide Oval on Feb 4, more than 10 years after their first fight in Sydney in 2006, won by Mundine in a unanimous points decision.
Mundine believed at the time, and presumably still does, that there were nefarious elements at play that conspired against him due to the color of his skin. He revealed how he has long fed off any racist incidents during his career.