Willie Kickett is better than Dib and will get a title before him

Whoa whoa whoa. "the real deal"?? You obviosuly didn't see the fight. Mirovic out-box Hopoate for 6 of the 8 rounds (1st n last I gave to Hoppa). Beating Mirovic proves nothing. He is bordering on a 'joke' and should retire NOW.
Haumona, on the other hand, I really rate him, probably the only football player with potential to do something. And i think he would destroy Hopoate if they were to fight.



Good point, can't say i noticed that watching it live but now you pointed it out & watched the replay, perhaps he was injured.
Look this fight was never going to go the distance, from round 6 on it just became a slug fest and boxing technique was thrown out the window. Great fight from the entertainment perspective, but I wouldn't be showing any boxers wanting to learn to fight.

yeh how rigged was that fight..... the south african cleary won it

usherprince - I was thinking of professional champions, which not all of those guys are, or were. Besides, of the seven names you mention, we see a Russian, an African, an Armenian, and a guy from Guyana!

Haumono is a ko specialist the yank he fought was no bum. A couple more Quality opponents to get more rounds in him and he could be a top ten

On the question of nationality, this is not a matter for slanging matches, but of facts. You will never find me claiming someone as British if they aren't. OK, Eastman is South American. That has nothing to do with the nationality of the boxers you mentioned.
As for the status, yes, I misread the Boxrec pages and got it wrong.
But my original query stands. There have apparently been only 16 Australian World Champs ever, which doesn't seem many in about a hundred years.

I See your point old pom but Australia is the last place to bag with your logic . Australia is Multi Cultural Like pomgolia. We buy the paper off an armenian. Get kicked out of the pub by a polynesian blah blah blah etc etc

Oscar will be too big for manny, but manny is a legend.

Also, the only decent heavyweight australia has got, Kali Meehan, will be fighting "the beast from the east" Valuev in Sydney january next year.

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wow Mosley still has it what a legend!
He just has the timing down pack for the big punch and always has,see story below.


Mosley's last-second knockout

From correspondents in Los Angeles, California
September 28, 2008

AMERICAN Shane Mosley unleashed a devastating left hook to the head, knocking Ricardo Mayorga out with one second left in the 12th round of their non-title super welterweight fight.

The 37-year-old Mosley floored Mayorga twice in a final round demolition, clinching it with a flurry of punches in a temporary outdoor boxing ring at the Home Depot Centre.

He connected on a left-right combination for the first knockdown as Mayorga got up at the count of seven.

Nicaragua's Mayorga should have stayed down. Mosley (45-5, 38 KOs) waded in as the referee was finishing his count and decked Mayorga with a short left hook on the next punch.

“I closed the show,'' Mosley said of the fight between two former world champions. “I got the knockout.''

Mayorga, 35, pressed the attack in the first three rounds before Mosley took over. The turning point came in the sixth when Mosley landed several solid rights that hurt the unorthodox Mayorga who had a 10-pound weight advantage.

“I could feel him getting weaker,'' said Mosley of Mayorga who played to the pro-Mosley crowd despite getting noticeably weaker in the later rounds.

“He was trying to play like he was strong. He might have stole some rounds here and there but I wanted to go for the knockout.''

At least one of the ringside judge's didn't agree and had Mayorga ahead on points heading into the final round.

Mosley's last fight was in November of last year, when he dropped a 12-round unanimous decision to Miguel Cotto.

Mosley said despite some sloppy middle rounds he stuck to his game plan.

“Mayorga is tough,'' he said. “He took some good shots early but I knew I could wear him down.

“Early on I was trying to figure him out what he was doing. He was throwing crazy punches.''

In the co-main event, World Boxing Council welterweight champion Andre Berto was successful in his first title defence, earning a unanimous decision over Steve Forbes in an earlier bout.

The scores were 118-109, 118-109, 116-111 in favour of Berto (23-0, 19 KOs), who won the vacant belt on June 21 with a seventh-round technical knockout over Miguel Angel Rodriguez.

Forbes (33-7), who was coming off a unanimous-decision loss to Oscar De La Hoya, showed a good chin but never was able to get Berto in any serious trouble.

American Berto was a big favourite heading into the fight but had to go 12 rounds for the first time in his brief career.