This Labor Senator Really Wants To Punch Tony Abbott
The Australian dream.
Meet Anthony Chisholm:
Labor leader Bill Shorten, Senator Anthony Chisholm and Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek. Credit: Facebook
The 39 year old has been a Labor senator, representing Queensland, since 2016. He’s a pretty vanilla looking guy, right? He looks like he’s fresh from a factory where they pump out bland political apparatchiks.
But Senator Chisholm isn’t your regular political hack. Despite appearances, he’s a cut above the rest of them.
Senator Chisholm wants to beat the shit out of Tony Abbott.
Punching On
According to a report in The Courier-Mail boxing promoters are keen for a Chisholm vs. Abbott show down to build up hype for the sellout fight between Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium.
It’s a bold move from the promoters, who are clearly banking on the crowd’s eagerness to see the nation’s 28th Prime Minister get walloped by someone 20 years his junior.
Chisholm told The Courier-Mail that “If Tony’s keen to do it, then I’m in,” adding that he had been boxing “on and off” for the past two decades but had stepped up his training in the past year.
Come on @TonyAbbottMHR let's do this on July 2 @suncorpstadium in Brisbane. You in? https://t.co/T0zVAat5w4
— Anthony Chisholm (@AnthonyChisholm) April 22, 2017
Abbott is no stranger to boxing. While studying at Oxford he boxed in the heavyweight category apparently displaying “modest height and reach”. According to one of his Oxford contemporaries, “He was crude, with very little technique. He wasn’t a huge puncher. He hardly ever touched me.
“He shut his eyes when he boxed – that meant he was scared. He certainly didn’t have the toned physique of the toned athlete. And he was a heavy breather as he started to get tired – another thing an experienced boxer hides.”
In other words, he wasn’t great.
Abbott getting belted at Oxford back in the day.
Is It On?
Chisholm is keen. The promoters are keen. The punters, presumably, are keen. That just leaves Abbott. What’s his take on the challenge?
Story about me re-entering the ring is fake news. Utter rubbish. Media should be ashamed of themselves
— Tony Abbott (@TonyAbbottMHR) April 23, 2017
Fake news! Utter rubbish! There’s only one way to describe the man after he brutally rejected the invitation to fight:
@TonyAbbottMHR coward
— A Busy Dad (@mtats) April 23, 2017
It seems like we’ll have to wait a bit longer before getting to see Tony Abbott get punched in the head several times