Man gets issued a serious international challenge by Olympic medallist
Man or mouse ... Anthony Mundine has been issued a serious boxing challenge. Will he take it?
Source: The Daily Telegraph
ANTHONY Mundine has been called out to fight for the vacant WBA middleweight belt by an Olympic silver medallist from Kazakhstan. Will he 'Man up' or 'mouse out'?
All right Anthony, here's your chance. Ever since you ditched your footy boots for a pair of boxing gloves, we've repeatedly heard how you're "The Man'', you'll beat anyone, anywhere, you're the fastest, the greatest, the blah blah, etc.
Well, here's your chance to prove all us critics wrong.
A little-known boxer from Kazakhstan has called your bluff, promising to fight you in your own backyard and let your family be the judges. He's pledged to knock you out.
The fight will be for the vacant WBA middleweight world title belt, like the type you're always telling all of Australia you're seriously chasing.
So, after telling us all you're as good as Sugar Ray Leonard, Sugar Ray Robinson and all the other iconic legends of the fight game you've compared yourself to in your mini-Muhammad Ali mimicking manner,
The Daily Telegraph wants to issue you a challenge.
The good news, Anthony, is Golovkin is the No.2 WBA middleweight title contender and you'll get to fight for a middleweight world title belt, just like the type of title belts you're always bleating about being good enough to win in five different weight divisions.
The bad news is Golovkin might be born in Kazhakstan, but he's learned the fight craft in Europe, winning all 18 of his professional fights.
Worse still, in 15 of those fights he finished the evening inside the distance by knocking his opponent out.
And the icing on the cake, Golovkin might only have had 18 pro fights, but he won a silver medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics and boasts a wealth of ring smarts.
He's done all of his fighting, bar one bout in Denmark, in Germany, the same place where Sven Ottke landed that sweet left hook that knocked you out back in 2001.
Golovkin's advisor, Ivaylo Gotzev, has told
fightnews.com: "We will fight Mundine on his home turf and win the title if he decides to show up. We don't care if we fight in his backyard.
"Let his family be the judges. When Gennady Golovkin hits him with either hand, nothing else will matter. He will knock Mundine out."
So come on Anthony. After all the ridiculous cases of foot-in-mouth disease where you've told us you're bigger than Don Bradman, Laurie Daley is running on old legs and Johnny Raper is yesterday's man, here's your shot to erase it all.
Bring a decent fight to Australia and beat a credible opponent.
Yes, you're the no.1 rated boxer in the WBA middleweight division right now. Guess what, Golovkin is no.2. If you're for real, you have to take this fight.
So. Are you a man or a mouse? Could this be the silence of ''The Man''?
