Australian boxing’s biggest feuds taking place outside the ring

Tszyu. Zerafa. Fenech. Mundine. Green. They are Australian boxing’s biggest names, but they’re not far from the sweet science’s biggest feuds. Here’s 26 of the best.

Danny Green and Anthony Mundine’s long running feud lit up Australian boxing though the 2000s

There is the fight game, and then there is the fighting within the game.

Boxers, promoters and managers are rarely on the same page.

There will be blow-ups over contracting, gloves, who is the “A-side”, who walks out to the ring first, rehydration clauses and even walk-out songs.

And then there are relationship breakdowns between those who came into the sweet science together but inevitably part ways.

Whether a fighter wants a different trainer, or a manager decides to work with a new promoter, the ramifications in this small world full of strong personalities has created rifts for years – often decades.

And then, there are simply fighters who for one reason or another, just dislike each other, spawning rivalries and trash-talk that have created some of the most memorable moments in sport.

Here is a look inside some of the most infamous feuds in Australian boxing.

 

Originally published as Australian boxing’s biggest feuds taking place outside the ring