ABORIGINAL MUSLIM BOXER SPEAKS OUT ON RACISM

Anthony Mundine, Australia's most popular Aboriginal Muslim boxer, knows what's behind the Cronulla violence:

"I believe we have problems within society and racism is one of them problems, it's a bad disease.

"I believe we've got leaders that are cowards.

"They are in denial and will not confront the issues and confront the problems that we have with society and to make comments like the leader (Mr Howard) has said, it's really got me dumbfounded.

"I think people shouldn't be condemned because of their colour or creed, they should be judged on their deeds and their positive ways to their fellow man, their actions."

As always, Mundine, who better hope the public doesn't judge him by his actions, is simply trying to manufacture controversy in order to attract attention:

There was Mundine apeing his idol - fellow sideshow clown Mike Tyson - by making a throat-slashing gesture at Green and his wife Nina, sitting ringside.

Grabbing the opportunity to play the race card - yet again - Mundine declared that the crowd was out to get him because he was a Muslim fighting a "blond-haired corporate type". Such an analogy - at a time of such racial violence - is typical of the tasteless tripe that runs from his mouth.

It was Mundine who proclaimed on national television that he sympathised with the plight of Muslims, when those terrorists crashed planes into the Twin Towers in New York.

It was Mundine - egged on by his mindless mouthpiece - who kick-started his career beating up on corpses, by labelling his critics as racists, rednecks and crackers.

With blood running through the streets of our suburbs, the dim-witted drivel that emanated from Mundine yesterday struck a new low.

Okay, the "blood running through the streets" thing is a bit over the top but Mike Gibson does nail Mundine – and future opponent Green – with this:

We have two boxers in a wacko division - neither of whom holds a world title - fighting for an obscene amount of money in a bout set down for April next year.

With good boxers slugging it out for peanuts in other parts of the world, Green and Mundine can count themselves as the luckiest pugs on the planet.

Nowhere else on earth could two fighters with such undistinguished records in world title bouts hope to split the $5.5 million that Green and Mundine will be paid next year.

No doubt they will continue their tiresome tirades, and when there's a quiet week in real sport we can expect another childish instalment.

It's all about the money.