If the thread gets a run, it could be hard for G Y to say yes, lets keep it non racist please.
My idea was born this morning reading the Sydney morning Herald online or was it the Australia?
A report of ringside abuse of officials, and claims of racism while the fight was under way, to the judge.
I love sport , some of my hero,s still are Anthony,s father Tony, Lionel Rose, untold footballers of Aboriginal decent.
I however am stunned by the mans need to try to be a clone of the very great Ali.
Clay had wit, had class and under any name was a great. Mundene has sporting class shining out of him, played for my football club played great fights great.
But few like him,can we ignore the fact this country of sports freaks is unimpressed by the actions outside the ring of this man.
Yes I understand we can not ignore some things but we do not need to be openly racist to talk about this man and why he is so different than most of our sporting hero,s.

Ummm, IMO, he's an attention-seeking thug, who'll do anything for his 15 seconds of notoriety. Sport skill is no guarantee of mental agility, to say the least. We'd all be better off if the Media just ignored him outside of the ring, he has nothing positive to offer, and is a poor example for his culture.
But then, I'm a boxing hater, it should be banned, any "sport" that relies on injuring another to win is no sport, in my book, and serves NO useful purpose. We're supposed to be "civilised", yet we watch people beat each other into brain-damage for ENTERTAINMENT??

It's funny how people think some don't like him because of his heritage. Mundine is a brilliant fighter, he's taken down some GREAT fighters. Kudos to him.

Mundine himself raised the race card when he kicked off his boxing career. He was fighting 'The White Man' for his downtrodden people and immigrants...yadda yadda yadda....can you see the marketing Belly?.

What makes people annoyed by him is his mouth. If you're in a restaurant and there's a guy mouthing off, you're not gonna like him unless you agree with what he's saying and you're not the target. He's telling people....and so did you....that I don't like him because of the colour of his, and my, skin. If I state in here that I'd LOVE to see his head get knocked off, according to him, and you, it's because he's Indigenous. MAN that's insulting.

He has achieved excellence and proven a lot to himself. This latest fight was against a class fighter and he volunteered for it. Well done, great win.

There's ALWAYS racists. It's naive to suggest there isn't, but to suggest I'm racist by default because of the colour of MY skin and who I'd support IN A SPORT is about as insulting and racist as you can get.

as previous sporting comments have been deleted i will restrict my comments and say simply speaking some people love watching near naked men...the beefcakes of sport make some closeted homotypes slaver

be it beating their heroes meat or beating each other up..so the same homo-erotic tendencies are being subverted into an excuse for yet another ism

[last time it was sexism..[this time its racism]..but its sports..[the great destraction to amuse the masses..away from real news..

beside i believe he has a new fight game...for those racists that love tweaking the game...its all just so lame..and obvious...its clear why womans sports never has the same popularity

anyhow some may yet again chose to play the man..because they are deficient at playing the ball...i think the phyco-wryrotrysts call it trance-spherance... sounds like another form of ism to me

Belly,
Q&A last night said it all seem to me that they're reading my posts ;-)
It's sad to me that to many indigenous that sport is seen as their best way out of what is an appalling situation.
Let alone having to have one's brain damaged to do that i.e. Ali one could point to countless others too.
Sporting heroes have such a short reign and the lifestyle leave the heroes as victims do I need to name them.

I think we should celebrate real heroes for doing real things especially when they achieve meaningful things in in the real world.
If we look, the list of indigenous people doing long term good is impressive.
e.g. Doug Nichols' legacy goes far beyond the near pointlessness of kicking goals although he did that too.

It is sad that the question needs to be asked.
If the discriminated use the tools of the bigots to empower them fine
i.e. the Greeks used Wogs (wogs out of work etc.) that does NOT give us the right to use the term. Likewise whites have no right to use the terms against the indigenous. As they said last night (even the football club owner) The long term effect of such language is unacceptable and those who use it should wear the consequences.
Finally only those who suffer the insults all the time know the pain they cause. It has nothing to do with the BS of toughen up. Until the abusers suffer the relentless abuse they can't know pain of the abused. My view is that those who think it cool should grow up and shut the F*#k up.

Mundine is simply fruit of the self loathing upper white class who insist on teaching and promoting a warped and selected view of history. NO matter how many advantages and how much money he earns from the whites he will always have a chip on his shoulder. He would never acknowledge that if white settlement never took place he would still be living in savagery like some communities still do today.