Thread: Geale dominates Mundine

extract from Grantlee Kieza, Sunday Mail Brisbane, Feb 3 2013

Lional Rose, 19, first time out of Australia, flew to Tokyo and outboxed Fighting Harada, Feb 27, 1968, for the World Bantamweight Title. This was a time when Aboriginals were very much 2nd class citizens in their own country. Lionel had been born into abject poverty and grew up in a humpy his father Roy had made from strips of bark in a clearing beside a logging track called Jacksons Track in Victorias Gippsland.No running water, no eletricity, but Roy Rose taught Lionel to box with rags on his hands for gloves in a makeshift ring made from fencing wire stretched between trees. . Lionel had every reason to be bitter about his start in life and the plight of his people, but after he beat Harada, a reporter, sensing an angle, asked him now if he called himself a figurehead for the Aboriginal struggle.

Originally Posted by Lionel Rose

" I think of myself as an Australian, " Lionel replied, " I don't go in for all this black & white thing. To me we're all Australians".

Mundine disgraced Rose's memory with his atitude, & antics before & after his defeat at the hands of Daniel Geal.Mundine is a millionare, made from sport, a petulant coward who is very lucky Arthur Beetson is not alive, "uncle tom " Beetson would have flogged him , and given him a lesson in manners. And then bought him a beer, to tell him where he went wrong. I met Mr Beetson, a good man. Mundine? not sure how to make a spitting sound on a computer, Bob

The last word from me on this, there is a small section of the Courier Mail, called " the tweet spot" ,Here is a tweet from Sonny Bill Williams.

@ SonnyBWilliams[Sonny Bill Williams] Hanging out with @Anthony_Mundine celebrating a victory. We don't pay attention to corrupt judges.

I'm hoping SBW didn't post that personally, if he did, well, says a lot for his character. SBW, Quade Cooper, & Mundine have the same manager. Speaks volumes. Bob