Daniel Geale Appeals For Anthony Mundine Rematch

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Middleweight Daniel Geale and his team are planning to send an appeal to the IBO to force a rematch with Anthony Mundine, claiming the boxer used illegal tactics in the fight and used intimidation to frighten the judges. Geale lost a close split-decision to Mundine last week in Australia. It was the first loss of Geale's career. [details]

[Silencers]

I wouldn't mind seeing them fight again, the fight could have easily gone either way and the result would have been different had that slip been ruled a knockdown, which is what it should have been called IMO.

Edit: What Geale and his teams are saying about Mundine and his team intimidating the judges is a little preposterous. The tape thing was very irritating though.

[The Hammer]

The slip was really a knockdown, caused by a punch, so Geale should have won.

[infestacide]

I wouldn't mind seeing them fight again, the fight could have easily gone either way and the result would have been different had that slip been ruled a knockdown, which is what it should have been called IMO.

Edit: What Geale and his teams are saying about Mundine and his team intimidating the judges is a little preposterous. The tape thing was very irritating though.

wasnt the whole intimidation thing bought up by the press? They would only be going on what they have heard anyway.

Either way, both arent world class and both will get stopped if they bother to step up

[Greatwhitehope]

The claims of intimidation are a result of people from Mundine's entourage huddling around and harrassing one of the judges and reading his score card after each round.

[Philfy]

I think the whole judge intimidation thing was a complete non-event and as such does not warrant a rematch in itself.

The Mundine hand-wrap saga was obviously very frustrating to watch. He was not penalised on the night and I doubt he will be in the future.

There was one knockdown in the fight, and that was where Geale found himself sat on the canvas. I have no issues calling the other 'supposed knockdown' a slip.

I think team Geale don't have much chance of convincing the IBO to force a rematch, and Mundine, well he won't take the risk again.
I'd love to see them settle it in the ring though. Oh well.

[NakiFan]

No one wants to see that **** again, lets just have Mundine vs Pavlik or something and get him out of it

[Silencers]

wasnt the whole intimidation thing bought up by the press? They would only be going on what they have heard anyway.

Either way, both arent world class and both will get stopped if they bother to step up

I have no idea where the story originated from, I'm pretty sure it is illegal for members of a fighters' team to crowd around a judge after a round to look at the scores, if that's true then they should do something about that.

I think Mundine would lose to the best in the division, Sturm, Pavlik and Abraham but the division is relatively shallow so he can become a decent contender, and maybe a titlist when Pavlik and Abraham move up.

[RodBarker]

I have no idea where the story originated from, I'm pretty sure it is illegal for members of a fighters' team to crowd around a judge after a round to look at the scores, if that's true then they should do something about that.

I think Mundine would lost to the best in the division, Sturm, Pavlik and Abraham but the division is relatively shallow so he can become a decent contender, and maybe a titlist when Pavlik and Abraham move up.

It was discussed on this board where many trainers fighters and officials in aussie boxing chat a lot of the aus sport media look to this board for aus boxing news .

http://australianboxingforum.yuku.com/topic/3936

[Silencers]

It was discussed on this board where many trainers fighters and officials in aussie boxing chat a lot of the aus sport media look to this board for aus boxing news .

http://australianboxingforum.yuku.com/topic/3936

Interesting, seems pretty shady. One biased judge and possibly one judge getting pressured into scoring rounds for Mundine.

Thanks for the link.