Mundine was dropped with a flurry of heavy shots after just 70 seconds before Zerafa, 17 years younger at 28, sent him packing in little more than two minutes with a crushing right-left combination.<\/p>\n
"This 'fight' should never have happened. DISGUSTING," leading boxing promoter Lou DiBella wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n
"Australian boxing owed a debt to Mundine to protect him from himself. The man is forty-five and had NO chance. This was wrong."<\/p>\n
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DiBella said of making calls on the eligibility of ageing fighters: "Not easy decisions, but you need to err on the side of safety."<\/p>\n
Mundine is way past his best and the Zerafa fight was an obvious mismatch. 'The Man's' old manager, Khoder Nasser, urged Mundine to retire eight years ago after a loss to Daniel Geale. Main Event did not broadcast the Zerafa fight, which was instead streamed online as a cut-price pay-per-view.<\/p>\n
Yet Victoria's Professional Boxing and Combat Sports Board allowed the fight to go ahead. Many felt that decision was a mistake, one which cannot be repeated.<\/p>\n
Former world champion Lovemore Ndou urged Mundine to remain retired.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/twitter.com\/LovemoreNdou\/status\/1370706337361891334?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n Main Event commentator Ben Damon paid tribute to Mundine's career but offered a simple "no" when asked on Twitter if he should have been allowed to fight Zerafa.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/ben_damon\/status\/1370703952367415302?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n Boxing writer Dan Attias said that boxing authorities could not allow Mundine to fight again, whatever the financial incentive.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dan_Attias\/status\/1370706295876030468?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n Iconic Boxing scribe Grantlee Kieza said that Mundine had suffered a "sad end".<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/Grantlee_Kieza\/status\/1370714636413116417?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n Nine reporter Danny Weidler, close to Mundine throughout his career, said that he wished Mundine had "retired years ago".<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny_Weidler\/status\/1370810900878225410?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n Mundine claimed that he was fit to fight but also admitted that his will to box had faded.<\/p>\n "Definitely, that was it for me win, lose or draw," he said after the fight.<\/p>\n "Even if I won I still would have hung them up. I just haven't got the heart any more to do it.<\/p>\n "God has given me great talent both in rugby league and boxing. I'm not the fighter I was five years ago, a year ago or 10 years ago. But I've achieved a lot in my lifetime and hamdullah \u2014 it's all for the praise of God.<\/p>\n "I'm healthy but I got caught in the first round. It happens in boxing. Hopefully Michael can go on and be a success and reach all his dreams.<\/p>\n "But he wanted to fight me when he was 15. Lucky you got me when I was 45, not 35."<\/p>\n Zerafa joined Jeff Horn, Charles Hatley, Garth Wood and Sven Ottke by inflicting a KO loss upon Mundine. Now 28-4 (17 KOs), he called out Tim Tszyu<\/a> for his next fight.<\/p>\n "This is a legacy fight for me. Fifteen years I've been waiting for this moment and I got it and delivered. I just want to give a huge thanks to the Mundine team for the opportunity," Zerafa said.<\/p>\n "Anthony, nothing but love and respect for you – you put this sport on the map, now it's my turn to carry the torch."<\/p>\n There will be doubts over Mundine's retirement announcement, given he gave an almost identical speech after losing to Horn; another awful first-round stoppage.<\/p>\n "No man, I'm done. Jeff proved tonight there is a new generation. Physically I felt fine, mentally I felt fine. But that's boxing," Mundine said, back in December 2018.<\/p>\n "It was God's will for me to be in this situation. The next chapter of my life I have to try to use my legacy and my story to uplift and empower. I know I can touch people and make a change for them. I have to move on now."<\/p>\n Mundine lost a split decision to kickboxing icon John Wayne Parr in November 2019, in between the Horn and Zerafa KOs.<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anthony Mundine's supposed last fight has been branded "disgusting", with calls growing for boxing authorities to keep him out of the ring. Mundine announced his […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44517,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44515\/revisions\/44517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n