Dont believe the hype.

[boxoncottonon]

Dont believe the hype.
Mundine has only ever been driven by his own selfish grandiose aspirations.
Like a spoilt bratt with all of the talent in the world he simply could not wait for his turn in the sun. He had to tell all at which time it was to take place and at whose expense.
He acted purely from a selfish point of view then and continues to do so today. He got paid big dollors then and still does today...what also remains the status qou is that he is still to prove that he is as good as he says on the world stage!
Didn't do it in League and hasn't in boxing.

If you did not know much about Athony pre boxing the article below could shed some light on the person you see today and how maturity does not always come with age and experience.

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1993: Mundine debuts for StGeorge Dragons and immediately makes an impression
1996: Named player's player for 1996. Plays in losing grand final St George v Manly. Announces that will be signing with Brisbane for 1997 in break away Super League Competition.
1997: Plays one year with Brisbane who win 1997 Super League grand final. With the announcement that he is leaving Brisbane, Mundine jokingly quips to the media 'show me the money' in reference to a number of clubs who are interesting in signing him. He also lets everyone know that he is 'The Man' and insists that he will only play at five eighth.
1998: Anthony Mundine returns to StGeorge after accepting a lucrative contract of $600,000 per year. He is named player's player for 1998. Also in 1998, he is involved in a racial discrimination inquiry with Canterbury forward Barry Ward. Mundine claims he has been racially vilified, Ward claims that he is not guilty.
1999: Rugby League's first merger following the Super League war: StGeorge - Illawarra. Mundine is part of this new beginning & plays the best football of his career. He is selected to play in the City Origin team. He lays claims to his abilities by declaring that he is the best five eighth in the world.
Mundine is chosen to play reserve for NSW in all 3 State Of Origin games vs Qld., scoring a try. Mundine is given little time on the field and often found himself playing at the unlikely position of hooker.
1999 became Mundine's most controversial year to date as he attracted more media attention than ever before.
The year finished in disappointment. The Dragons lost narrowly in the1999 grand final v Melbourne and then there was Mundine's subsequent exclusion from the Australian squad to take on New Zealand and Gt Britain in the tri nations series. Matthew Johns and Brad Fittler being preferred ahead of Mundine by the selectors. Mundine claims that the selection for five eighth was made on racial grounds.
2000: Mundine has by now become a target of a hungry media searching for a story. He reacts by making a series of comments about Brad Fittler and Laurie Daley. He states that he always outplays Fittler and that Daley is 'running on old legs' .
Just prior to to the round 5 match vs Melbourne, Mundine claims that the Dragons are the true champions and Melbourne don't deserve to be premiers. Melbourne, playing at home, hand out a record thrashing to St George Illawarra 70-10 on March 3rd.
Dragons club officials place a 2 week media ban on all players with the exception of the captains.The ban is obviously aimed at gagging Mundine. In round 11, Mundine pulls out of the Brisbane match reportedly with a shoulder injury. He misses selection in the Australian team to play NZ in the ANZAC test. The following week it is reported that he does not show up to the training session for the round 12 match.
Mundine goes missing and is unavailable for the round 13 match. Reports reveal that he has left the country and caught a flight to the USA without club permission.
May 2nd: Mundine returns to Sydney Airport and is mobbed by the media. He appears relaxed and happy to be back. He is reported to say that he left because he was under pressure and needed time to 'chill out' .
May 3rd: Anthony Mundine meets amicably with the club board at StGeorge Leagues Club. The meeting lasts just 15 minutes. At 4.45 pm, Mundine announces his retirement from Rugby League.

[ajay11]

Thanks for all that info.

I had my head stuck up a chinamans arse for that decade so I'm glad you could fill in the blanks.

:verysad

[kel]

Thanks for all that info.

I had my head stuck up a chinamans arse for that decade so I'm glad you could fill in the blanks.

:verysad


:lol::lol::lol: Maybe it was for the interstate or overseas posters

[boxoncottonon]

Thanks for all that info.

I had my head stuck up a chinamans arse for that decade so I'm glad you could fill in the blanks.

:verysad

Hows the weather up there? :lol:

Believe it or not, outside of QLD and NSW in the nineties no one gave a fuck about Rugby League.
Mate I reckon most of the boxing world wouldn't have a fucking clue about what he did before boxing. Let alone the constant shit storm which followed him around or where it eminated from.

[IrnBruMan]

One more thing (just in case anyone thought Mundine had actually ever done anything remotely original).

When Solomon Haumono went AWOL from the Bulldogs in 1998 when he went over to the UK to follow his then sweetheart Gabrielle Richens, Mundine saw how the media reacted.

Quick to steal other people's limelight, Mundine announced he was going over to the UK to talk Solo around and bring him back before he threw his career down the tube over some skirt.

When he returned with Solo they both appeared on the Footy Show announcing their conversion to Islam and claimed they were practising celibacy (gee, Jason Stevens hadn't been doing the same thing for several years already had he? :think).

2 years later in 2000, Mundine does his own disappearing act, and a 'family friend' rings the newspapers to say Mundine had been seen at Los Angeles airport :roll:

It was all contrived, based on previous events.

The "Original" Aboriginal indeed :roll:

[pecks]

Oh, Garbielle Richens wasn't just some skirt.

[IrnBruMan]

Oh, Garbielle Richens wasn't just some skirt.

Yeah, I know, but Mundine had to cockblock his mate so Solo could come back to Australia and ignite the world of rugby league with pedestrian stints at Balmain, Saints and Manly :lol:

[COULDHAVEBEEN]

One more thing (just in case anyone thought Mundine had actually ever done anything remotely original).

When Solomon Haumono went AWOL from the Bulldogs in 1998 when he went over to the UK to follow his then sweetheart Gabrielle Richens, Mundine saw how the media reacted.

Quick to steal other people's limelight, Mundine announced he was going over to the UK to talk Solo around and bring him back before he threw his career down the tube over some skirt.

When he returned with Solo they both appeared on the Footy Show announcing their conversion to Islam and claimed they were practising celibacy (gee, Jason Stevens hadn't been doing the same thing for several years already had he? :think).

2 years later in 2000, Mundine does his own disappearing act, and a 'family friend' rings the newspapers to say Mundine had been seen at Los Angeles airport :roll:

It was all contrived, based on previous events.

The "Original" Aboriginal indeed :roll:

Gotta agree with you on Mundine's lack of originality.

Half way thru reading the Ali book on his 'publicity' trip overseas he started thinking he was Ali, the 2nd coming. Most of his bravado is just pure poor man's Ali - 'The Man' replaces 'The Greatest' etc, etc.

I guess if you are going to copy someone, copy the best. But hey, Ralph Mouth aint ever gonna do the Fonz with any conviction is he?

[heidegger]

Ali backed it up. That's why he's now a legend. Mundine doesn't seem to understand that saying your P4P the best and then only fighting losers just makes him look like a fool.

The early rugby league days revealed his type. He has an oppression complex. Thinks nobody appreciates him because of his aborigionality. Did he watch Cathy Freeman win the 400 at Syd Olympics? The fact is white australians adore aborigional stars, even more than the White stars in a way, because they get a 'token' value, as the media and politicians hold them up as an example of Aborigional succes to inspire others. Mundine is just an idiot.

The sadest thing is that he even adopted a whole religion for the sake wanting to be like somebody else. It's one thing to copy someone else's personality, but when you become a Muslum to be like Ali it shows a disturbing lack of identity. He's a fool.

[ranser]

He tries to talk like Ali, and take on the lifestyle that Ali led., referring to the suffering his people are going through, and becoming a fellow muslim.
He has adoped Roy Jones' fighting style, similarity is uncanny, particularly the way he puts his left hand up..
And he started flaunting $$$ paper in front of the cameras like Floyd Jnr.
Man , how original is this guy... gotta give him credit...!

[stiflers mum]

He tries to talk like Ali, and take on the lifestyle that Ali led., referring to the suffering his people are going through, and becoming a fellow muslim.
He has adoped Roy Jones' fighting style, similarity is uncanny, particularly the way he puts his left hand up..
And he started flaunting $$$ paper in front of the cameras like Floyd Jnr.
Man , how original is this guy... gotta give him credit...!
You forgot he also tried to be like Hopkins but instead of saying he would never be beaten by a white boy he said he would never be beaten by a christian.But a lot of people in Australia dont follow boxing and think he is being original.

[TheDuke]

Manny Siaca and Kessler would probably qualify as 'Christian' in a broad sense?

I've said it before - this 'inspiration to his people' is actually ashamed of his people. He obviously doesn't think their culture has enough to offer so he emulates the cultures of others (Arab, African)

[heidegger]

Manny Siaca and Kessler would probably qualify as 'Christian' in a broad sense?

I've said it before - this 'inspiration to his people' is actually ashamed of his people. He obviously doesn't think their culture has enough to offer so he emulates the cultures of others (Arab, African) :deal:deal:deal:deal
That's what I've been saying all along! Islam is an outgrowth if Christianity and Judaism!! Fool!!

[ranser]

You forgot he also tried to be like Hopkins but instead of saying he would never be beaten by a white boy he said he would never be beaten by a christian.But a lot of people in Australia dont follow boxing and think he is being original.

thats hilarious!:lol::lol:

[ajay11]

He tries to talk like Ali, and take on the lifestyle that Ali led., referring to the suffering his people are going through, and becoming a fellow muslim.
He has adoped Roy Jones' fighting style, similarity is uncanny, particularly the way he puts his left hand up..
And he started flaunting $$$ paper in front of the cameras like Floyd Jnr.
Man , how original is this guy... gotta give him credit...!

1. Anthony Mundine does plenty for the disadvantaged natives that rarely gets any press. Knowing the health problems many of his paternal family have gone through he has as much right as anyone to speak about the problems facing the Aboriginal people.

2. The style he now uses was perfected by Roy Jones Srn. when Mundine went over to the USA after his loss to Manny Siaca. The changes were obvious in his first fight back against Sean Sullivan where he fought in the center of the ring instead of dancing and sliding around the ropes. This style works well for those that have good hand speed and reflexes (like Choc and Roy Jones Jr) with the left hand able to jab head/body or hook head/body without losing the ability to parry or bring back up for the customary two arm block.

3. His actions outside the ring which bring controversy are what put boxing back on the map. Often it's "stutter crap" or 2nd hand shit but that's how he has chosen to play the press and history has proven that it gets results. Once the cameras and the press are gone he is back to himself.

4. Simple fact is that the kid believes in himself and at the end of the day he has done much more than most believed when first started pro boxing. He is ranked 4th in the world which is something only the best can achieve and if he wins his next two fights he will be No.1.

[the beaver]

1. Anthony Mundine does plenty for the disadvantaged natives that rarely gets any press. Knowing the health problems many of his paternal family have gone through he has as much right as anyone to speak about the problems facing the Aboriginal people.

2. The style he now uses was perfected by Roy Jones Srn. when Mundine went over to the USA after his loss to Manny Siaca. The changes were obvious in his first fight back against Sean Sullivan where he fought in the center of the ring instead of dancing and sliding around the ropes. This style works well for those that have good hand speed and reflexes (like Choc and Roy Jones Jr) with the left hand able to jab head/body or hook head/body without losing the ability to parry or bring back up for the customary two arm block.

3. His actions outside the ring which bring controversy are what put boxing back on the map. Often it's "stutter crap" or 2nd hand shit but that's how he has chosen to play the press and history has proven that it gets results. Once the cameras and the press are gone he is back to himself.

4. Simple fact is that the kid believes in himself and at the end of the day he has done much more than most believed when first started pro boxing. He is ranked 4th in the world which is something only the best can achieve and if he wins his next two fights he will be No.1.

Wins his next 2 fight?? Yeah only if he beats either 2 of the top 3 which i highly doubt he will fight.