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Old 15th May 2006, 11:11 AM
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I watched the special on Main Event last night where they had all of Green and Mundines fights.

Mundine has definately improved. He is much quicker then he was when he first started. You could see definite improvement.

Green was showing improvement up until his title fight which he lost due to headbutt. Since then he hasn't been quite the same fighter.

Saying all this I watched the last 2 fights each of them had over in Perth and if you watch the fighters that Mundine have fought, most of them don't have much defence so his speed is useful. As soon as his opponent held his hands up and protected his face Mundines speed was nullified. Also mundine may be quick but when he gets hits once he seems to cram up for a few seconds but none of the previous fighters went on with it. They threw 2 punches and stopped.

Green on the other hand was fairly predicatable but fought well. He covered up, kept his hands up in defence for all 10 rounds and seemed focused on not knocking the other guy out and just using it as a training run. Green looked a lot slower than mundine but he also seemed to control the fight better.

Mundine went out there to knock his opponent out, Green went out for a training run. If you were constructing the odds based on these 2 last fights you would have mundine miles in front.

My personal thoughts on the fight is that if Green keeps his hands up and he puts together a few combinations he should beat Mundine. He should be able to handle the speed and hopefully lands a few punches early. Mundine will probably want to showboat and prance around a bit so I don't see this fight ending early.

My money will be on Green to win. (Mainly cause I don't like the other guy).
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