Belly,
The really sad part is that there are not enough Tony Mundine's & too many Anthony Mundine's.
It's becoming an epidemic that is talked down by academic do-gooders for nothing more than ensuring their personal gains.
The acronym for academia should rightly be hypocrisy.

Ho, Ho...individual...

It really takes some contortion for your to blame academia (your fav hobby-horse) for the fact that a certain boxer is a belligerent git : )

(I don't know who'd get their jollies from watching men beat each other about - give me Federer any day...)

Poirot,

Here's an early fight of Mundine's (he's on the left and fighting under an assumed name):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y77n--Af1qo

What's wrong with that? I don't know what sort of weird sicko gets their jollies watching tennis - the world's least exciting sport since competitive grass-growth watching fell out of favour in the 18th century - and I don't see how they can regard it as more entertaining than watching one healthy man beating the living daylights out of a little schoolgirl.

Cheers,

Tony

Belly,
Isn't Anthony Mundine's Mum White?
That's the problem with people like him blathering on about White "Racism", he's more closely related to me than he is to many other Aboriginals.
At any rate, I recall a piece in the Age on one of his rants about how he'd been held down by White "Racists", the accompanying photo was of Mundine in a Zoot suit complete with gold fob watch getting out of his Lamborghini. "Held back" indeed.

that a certain boxer is a belligerent git : )
Poirot,
If you read my remark again you'll see that I meant way beyond the boxer.

'afternoon to you BELLY...

Ern Macquillan's gym ! A very famous hangout for pugs in it's day. I've never been there but I met 'the man' Ern, one night at 'South Sydney's' when they held regular fight nights there.

A nice enough bloke, not tall and rather 'round' I suppose you'd say, but worshipped by his stable of boys. Myself, I trained a bit at the legendary Tom Lemmings gym, in Glebe, when younger of course.
Couldn't get up the stairs now I suspect. I'm sure you'd know the place BELLY, quite sure ?

Don't know about Ern, but Tommy Lemming wouldn't tolerate Mundine's juvenile outbursts for a second, before he'd endup flat on his back, and banned from the gym indefinately ! The same for old Billy McConnell, never went to his gym either, met him at the Stadium quite often, he enforced strict behaviour and discipline on all of those in his stable, else they're out on their backsides too !

Another thing that got up Billy's nose was being late for training/sparring sessions. As you can appreciate, a sparring partner often needed seperate payment, for the rounds he'd work with you, and if you were late, that not only caused inconvenience, but money.

Gotta say, I used to love doing duty at the fights, met some very colourful characters, but rarely was there any trouble, only a bit when boxing was held in the Leagues Clubs, where drinking was permitted. They were good days, eh BELLY ol' chap !