Boxing
It’s not hard to get a fight in Fred Brophy’s boxing tent – the last travelling tent left in Australia, or the world. It just gets hard when you get your fight. I wanted a fight.
I saw Brophy first at the Birdsville Races in 2008 but I knew about the tent – the round or two for a pound or two – to borrow a line from the other great boxing tent man Jimmy Sharman.
I talked about wanting a fight in the tent before heading up to Mt Isa for the rodeo, from the comfort of inner city Melbourne. No one believed me. I’m a girl and I’ve never even done a boxing class.
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What the hell happened?
Like the other 15,000 fight fans at Acer Arena last night, I’m still trying to work out how a tattooed knockabout - who nobody rated a chance – managed to knock Roy Jones Jr out.
Oh – and he did it in less time than it takes to brush your teeth.
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The Truth says:
Beating Lacy is hardly a special achievement. Lacy is a B grade fighter at best and has been seriously exposed in the past as a technically flawed and one dimensional fighter. It would be dangerous to judge Roy’s form based on his fight with Lacy. Read more »
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Tim says:
The answer Hendo is different weight divisions. When they fought Green looked slow and had lost a lot of power by slimming down to Mundine’s weight. Green is far better at light heavyweight/ cruiserweight. Lets see what happens if Mundine put on the kg’s and fights Green at a heavier… Read more »
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Fact: today is the 34th anniversary of ‘Thriller in Manila’. Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali fought for 132 minutes for $US5 million. It’s been described as the ‘fight of the century’. What’s your take on the event or boxing in general? Share your thoughts here.
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LUKE says:
Martin, Martin, Martin, boxing is the only sport. The rest are just games. Did I steal that from Hemingway? Who cares. It’s true. Read more »
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Martin says:
I don’t consider boxing a sport. It does not fit into my idea of a sport endorsed by an enlightened society when the best result is your opponent’s unconsciousness due to brain and facial injuries. I’d say we have a way to go! Read more »
A funny thing happened on the way out of the glamorous Punch TV studios yesterday. As we stood in the carpark waiting for Penbo to remember where he’d left the Commodore, a heavy-looking dude called out: “Oy, what’s this show The Punch and how come I’m not on it?”
It was world cruiserweight champion Danny Green, stepping out of the shadows with his hand extended and a mischievous grin spreading across his face.
We explained that despite Penbo and Tors being, ahem, avid fight fans, it was in fact a politics and current affairs show (although I reckon there’s a spot for Greeny on the panel somewhere down the track.)
The mood was upbeat until we got around to the topic of the paedophile Dennis Ferguson, whose situation we had just spent a fair slice of the show discussing with Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek.
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Terry says:
Faul, I understood that Mundine made comments supporting the terrorist events surrounding 9/11 at that time and the US boxing authorities declared he would never box on US soil, hence he has never fought there and have never really developed a career. Read more »
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Faul Kinell says:
I’ve never understood why Mundine does’nt get on with getting fights to put himself up there in the main league. He has shown that he outclasses Green by a country mile yet Geen is the one getting all the coverage. Yes it’s all about the footwork alright, in Greens case,… Read more »
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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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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Stephen H says:
The expert said he could not fight, the same experts hailed Sam Soliman and Danny Green as champs. He has beaten both of them. Read more »
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