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When Michael Zerafa was 14, he wrote to a 31-year-old Anthony Mundine, promising the league star turned boxer he would beat him one day and end his career.
Mundine was at the height of his popularity at the time, with the former world champion setting numerous PPV records in Australia on the way to earning a reported $30 million inside the ring. Yet that didn t stop a teenage Zerafa from sending a message to the star on social media. He still remembers it, Zerafa tells
Wide World of Sports.
Being 17 years Mundine s junior, Zerafa should never have realistically had the chance to turn a childhood dream into reality. Age alone should have been a barrier along with other fights that fell through for the Victorian boxer in 2020.
so it s very, very conflicting. 60 seconds ago the paddle wheel steamboat went by. i made the international symbol to blow your steam horn, and they did. it s an incredible moment that can only happen here, and the french quarter is bustling. again, it s a tale of two cities. we need help! reporter: it was the cry heard around the world. help, help! reporter: why iso one helping up. we just need some help and support. reporter: there was one voice in the crowd that caught our attention because it was heartfelt and innocent and it made sense. it came from a 9-year-old boy, charles evans. it is so pitiful, pitiful and shamed that all these people are out here. they have over 3,000 people out here with no home, no shelter. what are they going to do? what are we going to do?