1. Anthony Steven Mundine was born on 21 May 1975 and is an Australian former professional boxer and rugby league footballer.
67 Facts About Anthony Mundine
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Anthony Mundine held the International Boxing Organization middleweight title from 2009 to 2010, and the WBA interim super-welterweight title from 2011 to 2012.
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Anthony Steven Mundine is the son of former professional boxer Tony Mundine and hails from the Bundjalung people of northern coastal areas of New South Wales.
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Anthony Mundine was raised as a Christian but converted to Islam in the late 1990s.
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Anthony Mundine played junior rugby league for Hurstville United and, while attending Kingsgrove High School, Anthony Mundine starred for the school in the 1993 and 1994 teams which won the University Shield both of those years.
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Anthony Mundine played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1993.
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That year, Anthony Mundine signed with the St George Dragons as an eighteen-year-old.
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Anthony Mundine attended Canterbury Boys' High School and Cleveland Street High School.
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In 1994, Mundine represented the Junior Kangaroos, the team that beat Great Britain's under-19s in the curtain-raiser to the Australia v France Test at Parramatta Stadium.
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Anthony Mundine played at centre in his second consecutive grand final, this time a victory against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in Brisbane.
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Anthony Mundine was selected to play for New South Wales in each of the three matches of the 1999 State of Origin series, scoring a try in Game I on debut.
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Anthony Mundine was disappointed that further representative honours did not follow, and believed that his representative opportunities did not reflect his abilities and achievements at club level.
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Anthony Mundine raised the issue of racism as the main explanation for this.
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Anthony Mundine left rugby league halfway through the 2000 season, after being inspired to go into boxing, when a friend, Abdi Osman, showed him a video of Muhammad Ali.
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Anthony Mundine later cited what he claimed was racism concerning rugby league as one of the reasons he quit to take up boxing.
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In 2005 Anthony Mundine was reported to be making a comeback to the NRL, but this did not eventuate.
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In 2007 Anthony Mundine was appointed Indigenous Liaison Officer at the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
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Anthony Mundine has close family ties to rugby league: he is a relative of Wes Patten, Amos Roberts, Beau Anthony Mundine, Blake Ferguson and Reece Robinson, all NRL footballers.
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Anthony Mundine is the brother-in-law of Tyran Smith who married Mundine's sister, Kellie.
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In September 2016, after stating on previous occasions he wanted to return to rugby league, Anthony Mundine claimed that St George chief executive Peter Doust had been in contact with him regarding his availability to play.
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On 8 December 2017, Anthony Mundine again declared that he desired to return to rugby league and singled out St George as the club for which he wanted to play.
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On 21 April 2019 it was announced that Anthony Mundine would make a return to rugby league and had signed with the Matraville Tigers in the South Sydney District Rugby League.
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Anthony Mundine is trained by his father, Tony Anthony Mundine, who was a middleweight contender during the 1970s.
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Anthony Mundine fought his first professional boxing match in July 2000, at the age of 25.
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Only 10 professional bouts later Anthony Mundine fought for his first world title against long reigning IBF supermiddleweight champion Sven Ottke in January 2001.
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In 2001 Anthony Mundine took on then Super Middleweight champion Sven Ottke for the IBF Super Middleweight belt, Mundine was ahead on points before being knocked out by a right hand to the temple in the 10th round.
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Anthony Mundine went on to claim the vacant WBA Super Middleweight title with a unanimous points decision over Antwun Echols on 3 September 2003, in front of his home crowd at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
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Anthony Mundine failed in his attempt to win the WBA super middleweight title after losing by decision to Mikkel Kessler on 6 August 2005 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
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In 2001, Anthony Mundine called Danny Green "a bum" in response to Green using Anthony Mundine's name to garner media attention, and stated that Danny would be a "no hoper" against him.
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Green waged a consistent media war with Anthony Mundine, using the media to build up his own name, and interest in a potential fight with Anthony Mundine.
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Soliman and Anthony Mundine would meet for a second time, this time competing for the vacant WBA "regular" super middleweight championship of the world.
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Unlike the first fight, Anthony Mundine dominated the proceedings, knocking his opponent down once in the second round, and three times in the ninth, prompting a knockout ruling by the referee.
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On 27 May 2009, Anthony Mundine faced then-undefeated International Boxing Organization middleweight champion Daniel Geale.
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On 8 December 2010 Anthony Mundine took on the winner of The Contender Australia boxing series, Garth Wood.
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Wood was able to land a flush left hook on Anthony Mundine's chin, sending him to the canvas.
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On 13 April 2011 Anthony Mundine gained revenge for his loss when he defeated Wood in a rematch won every round and dropped him twice and won, via a 10-round unanimous points decision.
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On 19 October 2011 Anthony Mundine faced former WBA champion Rigoberto Alvarez for the interim WBA Light Middleweight world title.
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Anthony Mundine won by unanimous decision and as a result became the mandatory challenger for the full belt holder Austin Trout.
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In March 2012 Anthony Mundine turned down the opportunity to face Trout.
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Anthony Mundine signed a short-term deal with American promoter Cameron Dunkin.
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Anthony Mundine went on to win the bout by seventh-round TKO.
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On 30 January 2013, Anthony Mundine fought Daniel Geale for the second time, with Geale's IBF title on the line.
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Anthony Mundine was to have fought American boxing legend Shane Mosley on 23 October 2013, at the Sydney Entertainment Centre; however, the fight was called off at the last minute by Shane Moseley, who demanded $1 million before entering the ring.
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On 9 April 2014 Anthony Mundine fought former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey in Newcastle and lost by unanimous decision.
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On 12 November 2014, Anthony Mundine fought then-undefeated European champion Sergey Rabchenko at Hisense Arena, Melbourne.
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Anthony Mundine came into the fight a huge underdog after his defeat to Clottey.
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Between 2000 and 2012 Anthony Mundine was managed by Khoder Nasser.
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Anthony Mundine appeared in the music video of Angry Anderson's 1990 hit song "Bound for Glory".
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Anthony Mundine then released his own debut single, "Platinum Ryder", which featured Nathan Merritt and Amos Roberts in the music video.
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Anthony Mundine appeared in the Brothablack music video, Are You With Me Out There, along with league player Joe Williams.
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In 2008 Anthony Mundine featured in the video of a GetUp Mob version of the song "From Little Things Big Things Grow".
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In 2009 Anthony Mundine appeared alongside Shannon Noll on the Street Warriors' debut album, Unstoppable Force.
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Anthony Mundine has been described as "the most polarising athlete in Australian sports history".
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Anthony Mundine was in a five-hour interactive DVD called Raising Children: A Guide to Parenting from Birth to Five.
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Anthony Mundine has appeared in The Contender Australia three times.
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In 2010 Anthony Mundine was a Special Guest Trainer on The Biggest Loser Australia: Couples 2.
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Mundine's portrait by James Hunt, entitled Bora Anthony Mundine, was a notable finalist in the 2002 Archibald Prize.
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Anthony Mundine is featured as part of the roster on the Fight Night Round 4 and Fight Night Champion videogames.
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In January 2018, Anthony Mundine was revealed as a celebrity contestant on the fourth season of the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity.
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Anthony Mundine was named the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Person of the Year in 2000.
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Anthony Mundine is the first boxer in history to have had every one of his professional fights broadcast for television and has generated more pay-per-views than any other Australian boxer since he turned professional.
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Anthony Mundine later apologised to the Tasmanian Aboriginal community and added that he felt many people claimed indigenous heritage to receive government benefits but had no real connection with their Aboriginal roots.
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Anthony Mundine claimed that Australia was one of "the most racist nations in the world" before calling for the Australian anthem and the Australian flag to be changed to be more inclusive of indigenous Australians.
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Anthony Mundine is a strong opponent of lockdown measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Anthony Mundine considers the vaccine rollout to be an attempt to depopulate the Earth.
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In March 2024, Anthony Mundine became involved in a war of words with South Sydney player Latrell Mitchell in relation to a racism controversy in the NRL.
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Mitchell then responded with a post to Anthony Mundine attacking him for his comments.