Anthony Mundine
The world’s unlikeliest cricket club touched down in Australia yesterday. And boy, do they have a timely reminder for us all.
The Compton Cricket Club is a group of reformed gangsters from the infamous violent South Central Los Angeles neighbourhood. I wrote about these guys for The Punch last September when four of them made a flying visit out here to raise awareness and funds for the current tour. Mission accomplished.
Self-described “ambassadors of peace and goodwill”, the Compton cricketers long ago turned their back on the wildly egotistical, chest-beating American sports culture which has rapidly become inseparable from the wildly egotistical, chest-beating global sports culture.
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Is it cos he is black? Is it cos he is Muslim? Is it cos he is free?
You suspect Anthony Mundine would like to believe his immense unpopularity in this country is attributable to redneck prejudice against all these things, but the truth is simpler.
We can’t cop Mundine because he isn’t what he says he is – a world champion. Not even close. In the alphabet soup of boxing, he has latched on to obscure titles simply because other, better fighters simply didn’t know (or care) they existed. Claiming them as world titles is like getting into law at Bond University and telling everyone you graduated from Harvard.
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Gangsta says:
Strikes me as a blog post written by someone pretending to be fan of boxing. but inside he does hate Mundine like the rest of the Country… the facts in this article are very wrong… Mundine has beaten the best Australia has to offer in green and Geale ... Kessler… Read more »
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sick of listening to B.S says:
He can fight, i give him that, but i would like to see him fight good boxers, not just Sam Soliman, (woopdidoo), Kostya will back me up on this fight some real boxers. He only beat Danny Green cause Green had to chase the wait, at least Greens fighting Roy… Read more »
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