Green Machine Vs The Man Mundine

[ParraEelsNRL]

Who do you think is going to win this fight?

I like both boxers and in 1 way I don't care who wins, but I'm going to say Mundine on points.

 

[Cleavy]

I hope Green smashes Mundine!

 

[Clayton]

Wouldn't want to be on the losing end of this one, I don't think there's going to be a knock out,

The man on points baby!

 

[Embers]

Mundine in a canter IMO. Green is way too slow and will get absolutely destroyed, We have seen Mundine fight similiar fighters to Green before and destroy em all, dont think this time will be any different

 

[lifelike_]

Hopefully Green KO's Mundine

 

[thewhippersnapper]

Mundine. Faster, stronger, fitter, smarter.

 

[guess_who]

Mundine to win.

Will be a great fight though, could go either way if it goes the distance I'd say Mundine. Only chance for Green is if he finishes it off early.

 

[Heisenberg_]

god i hope green smashes that w@nker mundine, "im the greatest athlete ever, im number one, i dont get supported by the public because im an aboriginal muslim", no your a ********ing figjam ********er

 

[weagles_fan]

Mundine = no chance. Loses all his big fights - Can only beat weak opponents.

Who ever loses might as well retire.

 

[RoosterLad]

i hope Green beats the c**ters out of Mundine that man is a complete ****

 

[Buddhy]

Hope Green wins, but I don't think he will

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/box-ban-for-mundinegreen-battle/2006/01/31/1138590503176.html


Box ban for Mundine-Green battle

By Brad Walter
February 1, 2006

SYDNEY'S fight fans face a television blackout of the $5.5 million Anthony Mundine-Danny Green showdown at Aussie Stadium, a move aimed at ensuring Australia's most eagerly anticipated bout is watched by one of the largest crowds in modern boxing history.
Confirming the April 19 clash between the long-time super-middleweight rivals would also be an eliminator bout for a shot at the WBA title held by Denmark's Mikkel Kessler, Mundine's manager Khoder Nasser yesterday revealed the only way Sydneysiders were likely to see the fight was to be at the 48,000-capacity venue.
"'We will be doing everything we can to make it one of the biggest boxing events in the world for 2006 and I'm pretty sure that's what it will be," Nasser said at Aussie Stadium, where seats will be placed on the field around the boxing ring and giant screens erected for the fight.
"There is a lot on the line, the winner will fight for the world title in the very near future with the oldest sanctioning body in the world, and if we can get 40,000 to 45,000 people it will be the biggest boxing event in the world for a live audience," Nasser said.
If the hype surrounding the fight, for which Mundine is believed to have been guaranteed $3 million and Green $2.5m, flows through to ticket sales, the record attendance for a sporting event at Aussie Stadium of 43,967 for Australia's 1993 football World Cup qualifier against Argentina is likely to be surpassed. Also under threat is the biggest crowd in Australian boxing, set a year earlier when 37,000 fans attended the Jeff Fenech-Azumah Nelson rematch at Princes Park in Melbourne.
Coincidentally, Nasser used the announcement of the date and venue for the fight to take a shot at both Fenech - Green's former manager and trainer - and the Victorian Major Events Company which had suggested to him that the Mundine-Green bout wasn't big enough for Melbourne. "Jeff's a very hard man to deal with," Nasser said. "Jeff looked for things not to make the fight happen."
Mostly, however, the talk was of the rivalry between Mundine and Green, which proved so strong they held separate media conferences and are still yet to meet.
"It's personal for me," Mundine said. "He stands for the system, I stand for the grass-roots fella - I stand for the guy who faces adversity every day. I'm not a corporate kind of guy, I'm an Aboriginal Muslim. They don't want to get behind me and never have.
"That's why in my rugby league days I talked the way I talked and walked the way I walked because they never gave me my just dues. If you look at my history, there were many times I should have made the national team, many times I should have made the State of Origin team, and there still are injustices within the system but I'm fighting against them."

Perth-based Green, who followed Mundine's attention-grabbing, red-carpet entry in a gangsta-style cream suit and hat by arriving on the field in a stretch limousine, countered that he was a carpenter by trade and hoped to have the support of the fans at the fight despite Sydney being Mundine's home town.
Asked if he respected Green, Mundine said: "He's got a puncher's chance but even that's a long shot. I really feel that I'm prepared for what he is going to do, I feel that he is a limited fighter who has some good assets - he's got a good strong jab and is physically strong but people underestimate me."
Amid questions about his recent trip to Mecca and his own reminiscing about running around former Manly and Wests Tigers winger John Hopoate - who was in attendance yesterday - to score "many wonderful tries" for the Dragons at Aussie Stadium, Mundine declared himself "the teacher" and Green "the student" and predicted the fight would not go the distance.
"This is D-day for Danny Green," he said. "It's obscene what I'm going to do to Danny Green. You're all going to be calling me the surgeon after this fight. I'm going to cut his eyes up, cut his nose up, cut his mouth up and you're going to say, 'Dan, when did you come out of the surgery'."

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17998667-5001023,00.html

Let's bring it on

By PAUL KENT
February 01, 2006

THE eternal themes that have punctuated the Danny Green-Anthony Mundine rivalry continued yesterday, when the pair - separately - announced their April 19 fight at Aussie Stadium.

Besides their fighting abilities, the attraction of the Green-Mundine rivalry is their opposing personalities and the themes they represent: Good v Evil (depending on whom you support), Common Man v Ghetto Superstar, Motor Mouth v Homespun Hero, Boxer v Puncher.
So it was yesterday, at the announcement of what will be the biggest fight in Australian history.
The fight will earn Mundine a minimum $3 million and Green a minimum $2.5 million, with the potential to earn more depending on pay per view sales. It will surely eclipse the 1992 record pay-per-view gross held by Jeff Fenech-Azumah Nelson, as well as the crowd record of 37,000 also held by Fenech-Nelson.
Mundine fronted his separate press conference in a cream suit with a yellow fedora perched over it, an ensemble worth as much as any small family car.
Green arrived later in a more modest dark suit, although he did emerge from a stretch limousine.

Their appearance and the words that followed confirmed their eternal Black Hat v White Hat theme.
Mundine again pushed hard with his usual strategy to divide first and hopefully conquer later, explaining his dislike of Green was because he stood for the system.
"It's been personal for me because you all built this guy up to be something ... he stands for nothing," he said.
"He stands for the system.
"I feel for the grass roots fella, for the guy that struggles through adversity.
"They have all built this guy to be a marketable, corporate type of man."
Green was amused and mildly bemused.
"I'm not sure where the corporate thing is coming from," he said. "I'm a carpenter by trade."
Mundine's explanation for the "corporate" dislike of him revisited old themes.
"I'm Aboriginal-Muslim, man," he said.
"They don't want to get behind me, they never have, that's why in the rugby league days ..."
And so it started again, as it has before, Mundine claiming he should have been picked in Australian and NSW teams but wasn't because, he says, he is Aboriginal.
All while again ignoring the fact that often it was Laurie Daley, who is also Aboriginal, chosen in his position.
It is an argument that relies mostly on the gullibility of the people. More correctly, it fulfills Mundine's assessment of himself.
Against this, Green played his role as the every man, admitting he carried no personal dislike of Mundine: "It's a sporting rivalry," he said.
"I don't take anything he says personally. I hope he doesn't take anything I say personally."
Drawn into Mundine's claims of racism, Green declined to answer.
After a re-think he said: "As an Aboriginal, Mundine should be very proud what he has done representing our indigenous population."
Mundine will head to a training camp in the country.
"I'm a believer in the old school," he said. "At one stage of my career I wasn't, but it's old school style now.
"It breeds them tough. They never breed them like they used to."
Green has gone the other way, utilising the hi-tech facilities of the Parramatta Eels, who have totally reworked his training regime to vastly change his style.
The result will last far beyond any mark in a record book, any loss to an overseas opponent, or some such.
It will carry long into old age, when every time the loser gets introduced at a fight he will look across the ring and see the man who won the biggest fight in Australia.
The man who beat him, in the fight they all remember. It will be their legacy.

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The only reason the Man never got picked in the Australian team is he wasn't good enough.

He had Laurie Daley and Brad Fittler in front of him.


And Green training with Parramatta, does that mean if Green loses, Parra have managed to put the choke on him?

Seems to have a real RL feel to this, you could almost say a RL vs AFL feel seeing as Green is from WA.

Ex Dragons player against a fella being trained by the eels.

 

[andrewb94]

Its a shame that Sam Solimans fight against Jermain Taylor, which should be happening April 15, for the middleweight title isnt getting any attention at all from the media here.

 

[Heisenberg_]

Its a shame that Sam Solimans fight against Jermain Taylor, which should be happening April 15, for the middleweight title isnt getting any attention at all from the media here.

true Solimans probably a better fighter then the both of them

 

[Bombers_Forever]

Go Green- crush him like an ant.

 

[kosi_23]

Green Machine on points

Hopefully

 

[Embers]

TAB have started betting

Anthony Mundine opened at 1.75 with Danny Green at 2.00, Mundine to win by knockout or points are being backed heavily, no one is puttin any money on Green as of yet but that will change probably a week before the fight

 

[Quinz]

Green to win by knockout!

 

[79Vintage]

Bit of a controversy with this fight regarding the undercard fighters, who at this stage won't be getting paid any money whatsoever and are just expected to fight for the exposure. Lots of boxing people have turned their back on attending or subscribing to PPV for this fight, I'll be doing the same, unless this matter is rectified.

 

[Embers]

Bit of a controversy with this fight regarding the undercard fighters, who at this stage won't be getting paid any money whatsoever and are just expected to fight for the exposure. Lots of boxing people have turned their back on attending or subscribing to PPV for this fight, I'll be doing the same, unless this matter is rectified.

Agreed, both men are just money hungry gits trying to suck every penny out if this so caled feud. No doubt there will be a rematch or two or three

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Agree with you two, I thought we got PTV so we could choose what we wanted, this is BS, they make enough money as is.

 

[footyfreak]

Hope Green wins but i'm really not sure who will win

 

[Sunny Boy]

what time is it on next wednesday night AEST?

 

[ablettjnr]

I'm a big fan of 'The Man', don't really know why. I spose I just like his attitude.