{"id":45769,"date":"2021-03-16T22:41:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T23:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=45769"},"modified":"2021-03-17T04:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T04:00:33","slug":"mundines-controversial-career-to-end-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=45769","title":{"rendered":"Mundine's controversial career to end with a bang"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most successful – and controversial – careers in Australian sport will officially come to an end next week when Anthony Mundine<\/a> formally announces there will be no more comebacks.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old Mundine made the decision in the wake of his 129-second loss to Michael Zerafa<\/a> in Bendigo on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Celebrity agent Max Markson is now planning a huge send-off for Mundine at a venue in Sydney's Circular Quay next Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The event is expected to be attended by many sporting, celebrity, media and entertainment personalities.<\/p>\n

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Mundine was a champion rugby league player at St George in the 1990s before shocking the sports world by turning his hand to boxing in 2000.<\/p>\n

Trained by his father Tony, a former boxing great himself, he embarked on a wonderful career that saw him win world titles in the WBA super-middleweight, IBO middleweight and WBA super-welterweight ranks.<\/p>\n

Throughout his career, he was a controversial figure who spoke his mind and he has often been described as "the most polarising athlete in Australian sports history".<\/p>\n

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He fought for Aboriginal rights before it became trendy and talked himself up deluxe – two factors that earned him many enemies.<\/p>\n

But there can be no doubting his skills or showmanship and he will be remembered as one of Australia's all-time sporting greats.<\/p>\n

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One of the most successful – and controversial – careers in Australian sport will officially come to an end next week when Anthony Mundine formally […]<\/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\/45769"}],"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=45769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45771,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45769\/revisions\/45771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}