Recap of Asia's and Australia's Monday Madness

There were three fights to take interest for hardcore fans bright and early this morning from the Eastern side of the planet, two WBA title fights from Japan and a grumpy Australian middleweight fighting a blown up welterweight. Here’s The Boxing Tribune’s recap.

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2009 Middleweight Report

by Dafs117

With Arthur Abraham exiting the division, it was hard to see how lineal middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik would find a credible opponent to share the same ring at 160 pounds. Especially after the grand plans of Top Rank were quickly scrapped and re-mapped following Bernard Hopkins’ magical performance. But he wasn’t dethroned, or stripped of his titles, he is still the champion of the world. But his plans have still changed dramatically.

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Mundine and Geale Victories Secures Re-Match

Anthony Mundine UD 10 Alejandro Gustavo Fallinga

Daniel Geale UD 12 Samir Dos Santos Barbosa

In two tune-up fights, both Australian middleweights won comfortable shutout decisions against over-matched South Americans in a jam-packed Silverdome in Tasmania in front of Daniel Geale’s home support.

After the weigh-in, the press conference got heated. Mundine tried to wind up his rival Geale, by declaring he wanted the fight at a different weight. After Geale laughed in his face and complained, Mundine reacted by ripping his shirt off and flaunting his lack of preparation. “I haven’t been training hard and been eating too much chocolates and cakes so I said to my management team that I wanted the fight at 76 kg. This is my show and if he wants to get paid he’s got to agree.”

In his fight, IBO middleweight champion, Mundine, 167.5, chased Fallinga around the ring for 10 rounds, who was trying to survive more than fight while local favourite Geale, 159.75, started tentatively before picking up the pace in the middle rounds. Barbosa went toe to toe with Geale in the 11th and 12th to give the fans some competitive action before the final bell. All three judges scored the bout 120-108 to Geale. He picked up the worthless IBF Pan Pacific Middleweight Title.

Throughout his fight, Mundine was booed by the pro-Geale supporters for the lack of action. Mundine was quick to remind the supporters of his victory over Geale earlier in the year “To all the haters in the building, it’s OK, I am The Man. I definitely won last time, but next time, I will win defiantly.” The judges scored the fight 100-90, 100-90 and 99-91.

In the post-fight press conference, Mundine expressed a very similar opinion to WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch, after his split decision victory against Andre Dirrell at the weekend. “He came in to survive not to fight and it didn’t make it entertaining for the fans. I just had to deal with what was in front of me. I caught him and he was on his bike and I couldn’t pin him. I caught him again and he reversed behind the referee. Pure negativity.”

Mundine went on about how Paul Williams and Kelly Pavlik opted out against him “I’ll take the winner, I want the best but the best don’t want me.” Geale also revealed his plan on the world stage “Mundine is going to be next, but hopefully I’ll challenge for the IBF middleweight title in 2010.”

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BTBC News Sack (6/11/09)

(Updated Throughout the Day)

RingTV.com kicks off new feature: Live stream of Fight Night Club
IBF Was in a Bind Ordering Donaire-Mthalane Rematch
Banks vs Butlin On The Klitschko-Chagaev Undercard
Too much hate for Pacquiao, Floyd Jr, Mosley and Boxers?
Insider Notebook: Israel Vazquez Dispute, Margarito Comeback, Pavlik-Sturm and Cotto Too
Witter-Alexander is Pushed Back, Pulled From July 11
‘The Ghost’ Returns
Diacanu vs. Pascal: Marlon Wright Named as Ref
Arce returns June 20!
Malignaggi-Diaz is a Done Deal, Weight of 138.5 on 8/22
Siaca calls out Mundine!

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This Week's Results

Tuesday, May 26th

Differ Ariake, Tokyo, Japan

Daisuke Naito UD 12 Xiong Zhao Zhong
(WBC Flyweight Title)

Central Stadium, Uttaradit, Thailand

Denkaosan Kaovichit SD 12 Hiroyuki Hisataka
(WBA Flyweight Title)


Wednesday, May 27th

Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Anthony Mundine SD 12 Daniel Geale


Friday, May 29th

Beaton Park Basketball Stadium, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Shannan Taylor Ko 1 Kiatchai Singwancha

Springs Indoor Arena, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Yonnhy Perez TKO 12 Silence Mabuza
(IBF Bantamweight Title Eliminator)

Bangla Stadium , Patong, Phuket, Thailand

Oleydong Sithsamerchai TD 11 Muhammad Rachman
(WBC Minimumweight Title)

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