Horn warned he’ll be ‘punching bag’
HALL of Fame fighter Tony Mundine scored more knockout victories than any Australian in boxing history and he is adamant his son Anthony will use Jeff Horn as “a punching bag” at Suncorp Stadium next week.
With 25,000 seats already sold for Friday week’s River City Rumble, the Mundines are planning to humiliate Queensland’s favourite fighting son at the same venue where he beat Manny Pacquiao last year on one of the greatest days ever in Queensland sport.
“We are very confident,” said 67-year-old Tony, who scored 64 knockouts in 80 wins and fought for the world middleweight title.
“Anthony is going to chop up this kid. He will use Jeff Horn as a punching bag. There is no way Horn is on the same level as Anthony. My boy will be too fast, too sharp, too experienced.”
Mundine intends to dismantle the former world welterweight champ in the same way he stunned former world middleweight champ Sam Soliman at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in 2007, handing the livewire Melbourne magician his first loss inside the distance.
Facing a fighter with an awkward style and unpredictable movement, Mundine stayed right in front of Soliman and picked him off with lightning fast right-hand counters. He dropped Soliman in the second round and then decked him three times in the ninth for a stoppage victory.
“Tell your boy he’s going to get smashed,” Mundine told me as he wrapped up a training session at the tin-roofed Logan Boxing Club.
Mundine says he plans to box Horn with the same speed and flair he showed in winning a lopsided decision over Danny Green in Sydney in 2006, the first boxing match Horn ever saw.
“The plan is to dominate Horn like I did Green,” Mundine said.
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