Sonny Bill's night of Sham!

Yup... It's happened in Oz again... Another piece of boxing Sham!

It's a sport I love, so what happened the other night with the SBW/Frans Botha fight was an absolute travesty!!

How they can legally make the last 2 rounds of a 'so called title fight' just disappear, just doesn't sit well on the taste buds of the average punter who wants to see a fair dinkum fight.

I'll be honest, I was listening to Barry Michaels (a respected former World Champ) and his crew commentate on this and I had to turn the volume down. Basically I got sick of hearing comments like 'SBW is doing so well against such great quality opponent'...

Please, the guy was 44yo and people should be more concerned about him hitting them with his pension card than his fists!

In his day, Botha would have done away with Williams inside 4 or 5 rounds but his day was a long time ago.
All the media release from promoters and their press was about the opponents that Botha has faced in the past, Moorer, Tyson, Lewis, Klitschko all were fought 10 years or more ago... and more recently in 2009 he fought another ageing fighter who really shouldn't have been there Evander Holyfield.

The other thing they forgot to tell everyone was, every single one of those World Champs or former World Champs, KO'd him! (As you'll see when clicking on each individual name)

Now, let's move onto Quade Cooper... This is s fight I had heard the words 'Stitch up' about 1 1/2 weeks prior to the fight night.
Now, I will grant you that in your first amateur or pro fight all has to be even, in that they wouldn't have 2 fighters step in the ring who aren't of same or similar experience but ordinarily on a pro night, it wouldn't be your main support bout, unless both or at least one of the fighters had a decorated amateur career.

Again they Billed this fight as a big one though and told everyone that Barry Dunnett  was a great opponent... rah rah rah... You know the kind of crap I'm talking about. Again, as I said, as a first Amateur/pro fight, this is a fair match up but don't feed us the crap in between.

Basically, Cooper had his hands down near his ankles, and generally, boxed like an amateur in his first fight, which again is fair enough. The annoying thing about all this is, he has been paid a packet to fight his first fight just because he is a rugby star!!

Danny Green has been reported to saying how aggravating it is to the other, real fighters in the fight game, when guys like this, step into the boxing ring for the first time and get big purse fights, just because they're a big name rugby or rugby league star.

Danny, I fully agree mate, this is crap! there are real boxers, genuine hard workers around that have been doing the hard yards in the gym for so long, shedding the blood, sweat and tears, just waiting for the big money fight night, only sitting in their chairs at home watching this circus unfold right in front of them!!

Khoder Nasser hasn't gained any fans after this fight night I'm afraid.

I also believe that nights like this could make it very hard for the real fighters, like Daniel Geale, to entice the big names to come to Australia to fight. After watching this, I think that Geale will most rpobably resign himself to the fact that he may have to travel abroad for quality opponents and dollar...

Geale vs Mundine

Well it's happened, finally Daniel Geale has acted revenge on Anthony Mundine for his controversial loss to him in Brisbane in 2009.

I was one of the many who felt that Geale won it the first fight in 2009, but on this occasion Daniel Geale really danced rings around Anthony Mundine and fought a fight that no-one could ever get wrong!

Geale continuously spun Mundine in circles landing shots and disapearing before Mundine could even get an eye view of his positioning.

Mundine was visibly confused and concerned from the outset. He adopted and unusually wide stance, continuously propped his elbow up trying to keep Geale away from him and resorted to attempting to bore in thus forcing head clashes that he was quite obviously the instigator of!

Personally, I found it hard to see where any judge could have given Mundine any round of the 12 fought at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. As I said before I (and probably 90% of others) thought Geale won the first fight at Brisbane Entertainment Centre in 2009 but that was a closer fight and the judges could have that one scored closer... But not this one!

Geale always looked in control, always on balance and never ever flustered or concerned. In fact, after the fight he looked as though he could have gone another 12 to 15 rounds at the same pace.

My read on the fight was that Geale fought a very professional fight. Mundine never, from the very first punches, wanted to make the fight. So from that, Geale did what he had to, to win! In my belief, if Mundine had of actually come out from behind his corner to fight, Geale would then have gone the extra mile and knocked him out. But, why should he take unnessesary chances when your opponent is going to just hand it to you without a fight.

Just ask Manny Pacquiao about where taking chances gets you!

I remember Eveander Holyfield once being interviewed and him saying, 'If they come after me, I'll knock em out... If they don't, I'll just beat them!'

Now, what of Mundine's reaction?
I heard one reporter saying, 'His corner wasn't giving the right instruction!'
Let me tell you, your corner doesn't need to give you the right instruction in a fight as one sided as this one. He knew he was well beaten, that is why his reaction after the fight was like it was.

Jumping up like the victor up on the ropes!! that looked as fake as it could be!

Whinging about the judges scorecards!

Saying he punched Geale 12 times to 3... Where did that one come from? it was a 12 round fight Anthony, I reckon both of you landed more than those numbers put together!

Now the one that said it all 'I ain't giving that boy another payday!'... If that isn't an admission of who actually won the fight, then what is!?

To say those words like that say's to me that he knows he lost this fight, coz any other fighter who really thought he won it, would be wanting a re-match next week or even in the car park!

I had it 120-108 every round to Geale.. The judge that had it 116-112 must have been chatting up the ring girl coz where he found 4 rounds to give Mundine I don't know? and then the other 2 judges 117-111, again, I'd ask them to genuenly watch this one again and tell me where they could give Mundine 3 rounds?

Anthony Mundine's reaction post fight was deplorable! His mate Sonny Bill (who is fighting a 44-45 year old fat man who's well past it) needs to start thinking before he does... Wouldn't he get a shock if Botha decides to train for this one?!

I believe Mundine did have a good ability for an Aussie fighter, but I have never thought of him as truly World Class. Geale proved to me, he's on the verge of being an elite fighter... I sure hope he gets to win his WBA title, he was strpped of, back before he has to defend against Soliman, who shocked Sturm on the weekend (I'm afraid on another dubious decision).

I think Danny Greens description of Mundine was a classic and a laugh... so don't turn away until you see this, what a screem...
Cheers
 Danny Green Interview re Mundine post Geale/Mundine fight