In a battle of Australian former world champions, Jeff Horn will meet Anthony Mundine on November 30th, according to Dan Rafael of espn.com.
“There is pressure because I am the favorite. I will need to be convincing, but he has had his time, and now it is my time to take over,” Horn said. “I am surprised his career is still going, but hopefully this will be his last fight. Mundine is an opponent who has been on the radar for quite a while, but we have made him wait in the background for some time, which I know has been frustrating for him. Now is the right time. I don’t like giving knockout predictions, but every fight I try to end early. It’s like time off work early.”
“The fight is on,” Mundine wrote on social media. “Y’all don’t wanna miss this! Ima keep rewriting history.”
Glenn Rushton, Horn’s trainer, said he wants his fighter to knock Mundine out.
“I want Jeff to dazzle in this fight. It’s a big ask, and I have put a lot of pressure on him,” Rushton said. “Jeff keeps saying, ‘Don’t tell me to knock him out in this round.’ He doesn’t like that added pressure, but I am putting pressure on him to deliver. This is a tough fight as far as comeback fights go. We are fighting a bigger man, going up two divisions. It’s a massive challenge, but Anthony has been taunting us for some time, but now it’s on. We will be ready.”
