Anthony Mundine and Danny Green come together for WA boxer’s world title bid

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Anthony Mundine and Danny Green come together for WA boxer’s world title bid

It was the biggest rivalry in *********** boxing history — and the most watched.

Danny Green, a fan favourite, versus Anthony Mundine, an NRL great who followed his famous father Tony into boxing and polarised the sporting world with his outspoken views.

Green and Mundine’s head to head count finished at one all. Mundine took the first ****** with a unanimous verdict in 2006. Green, the rematch 11 years later on split points.

That 2017 ****** was pure chaos in the ring, with “Choc” Mundine hitting Green with a cheap shot after just 90 seconds when his rival wasn’t watching as the referee tried to break up the pair.

The two fights still rate as No. 1 and 2 for the largest pay-per view TV audiences in *********** history.

Camera IconAnthony Mundine and Danny Green. Credit: Morne de Klerk/Getty Images

Now they have come together to support Bunbury boxer Alex Winwood as he fights for his own piece of boxing history, aiming to be the quickest *********** male to a world title in his fifth professional bout.

“He has touched base with me, given me a lot of knowledge and well wishes and as a young Indigenous man, that is very hard to believe that I have a relationship with such a great,” Winwood said of the man he calls ‘Uncle Choco’. “Not just a great boxer but I believe Australia’s greatest ever crossover athlete.”

Asked about Green’s relationship with Mundine, Winwood said: “I have never heard them say a bad word about each other. They have got a lot of admiration for each other. They are the best thing to have happened to each other.

“It is really good to see that side of them both. Like the rest of Australia, I didn’t know what was going to go down. They are awesome people.”

Green said the pair still had “nothing to do with each other”.

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==Camera IconDanny Green Credit: Ian Munro/The West ***********

“But we have a lot of respect for each other and there is a lot of love there too. There has been a lot of water go under the bridge. For a long time,” Green said.

“That ****** that happened in 2006. Biggest ****** ever in this country. To be in one corner and him in the other, it’s pretty wild.

“We have a lot of history and there is an immense amount of respect there for him from me. And I am pretty sure it is the same from him for me. But there is no love lost.

“I am really glad that Choc is supporting Alex and I am not surprised. Choc likes to lift people up.

“I have always known that about Choc. There has been a lot of s…t go on. But the word ‘hate’ doesn’t even come into the equation.

“It’s just that I’m a better fighter than him. And he says the same. And I f…..g disagree.”

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