Dear Dell,

So you're not disputing then all the things that
I've listed earlier. Nice to know.
As for your reference to a strawman response?
Nah. you got that wrong. I was merely being
facetious - but perhaps a tad too subtle for you.

Dear Individual,

I don't play the race card - so you're on your own.

Dear o sung wu,

Thanks for that.

We're all products of our environment I guess.
I'm glad that you found his father to be
a gentleman. His work with inmates sounds
like a worthy endeavour

Good old OLO.....always throws up a deep and meaningful subject for people to discuss.

Talk about bitter and twisted manners and sour attitudes.

I wonder what it takes to think up a thread like this?

: )

Piorot, why are you so bitter towards the subject of Anthony Mundine's defeat? It's topical, it happened very recently, it's in the news. It's very appropriate to bring up the subject, especially in Australia. Not so appropriate elsewhere, as Mundine is close to unknown by the general populations of nearly all other countries.

Sorry, Dell, but judging from your opening post I assumed you'd started this thread with sole intention of hurling derision at Mundine.

I agree with Lexi that his antics are part of his boxing persona spiel.

As it happens, I don't particularly care whether he won or lost.

Poirot, it's not Mundine's boxing "spiel". He is actually like that; in other words, he rarely graciously accepts defeat in a sportsman like way. Even when he wins, he finds it difficult to be gracious, especially when he bears antipathy towards his opponent. He's not putting on an act. He believes what he says. His sportsmanship is severely lacking, and as most Aussies know his manner is aggressive, relatively uneducated, extremely arrogant and immature. That's why he is so disliked. That's the way he is.

Compare his immature manner and lack of sportsmanship to truly great Aussie boxers like Jimmy Carruthers or Lionel Rose. Mundine doesn't even rate at the lowest level against the sportsmanship of those greats.

I don't play the race card - so you're on your own.
Lexi,
Just wait for what I predicted to surface.