Mosley plans on boxing clever to ensure there is no funny business during fight with Mundine

SHANE Mosley has a few concerns ahead of his fight with Anthony Mundine and is working his way through them.

FOR the record, Anthony Mundine-Shane Mosley will be a 12-round fight. This was confirmed yesterday by the fight's promoter, Khoder Nasser. It comes as a great relief to fight fans, the broadcaster, to pay-per-view subscribers and possibly both participants after the last fight card under this particular promoter was abruptly shortened mid-fight. That Sonny Bill Williams appeared out on his feet at the time the decision was made was entirely coincidental, if a little fortunate.

A close eye will also be kept on Mundine at the weigh-in, with Mosley's father and chief second Jack Mosley declaring yesterday the fight will be cancelled if he does not witness Mundine weigh in at or below the 154lb (69.8kg) junior middleweight limit.

"We're not going to accept any funny business," Jack Mosley said. They also remain adamant Mundine will not be allowed to weigh in at his hotel room, hours before the official weigh-in, as he was allowed to do against Carlos Adan Jerez in Queensland three years ago when, like now, rumours circulated that Mundine was struggling to boil down to the junior-middleweight limit.

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"You're hearing the same things we've heard," Shane Mosley said yesterday. "We have to weigh in in front of the commission.

"My father needs to see it."

That said, the Mosley's are still unsure how they will stop the goons peering over judges shoulders and bullying them, accusing them of being racist whenever a round is scored against Mundine, as happened at the Daniel Geale fight, but Mosley is working on a plan for that at this very moment.

"I'm not really concerned about all that because I believe I'm going to get a knockout, not score a points win," he said.

Mosley did little more than a create a light sweat at yesterday's press call, hitting the pads for television cameras, which had everyone marvelling at his hand speed.

The fight will be won somewhere beyond that, though.

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Both men are fighting for their futures.

Mosley is in Australia because he is being paid five times what he has been fighting for in America and, while the money is nice, he is hoping an eye-catching performance against Mundine will return him to the top rung of world boxing and more million dollar paydays.

Mundine is hoping his victory will open the eyes of promoters representing the likes of Miguel Cotto and, cough, Floyd Mayweather.

Achieving this is possible, albeit unlikely.

If Mundine does what he usually does, and keeps safe while stacking away the rounds, it will be soon forgotten as a fight. If he knocks Mosley out inside two rounds in devastating fashion it seems likely most will look past the performance and point out the 42-year-old Mosley was more gone than we thought.

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The only other option is to engage Mosley in an all-out war, something that stands above the ordinary and convinces the American audience there is something different here, something worh paying for.

But Mundine hasn't had the stomach for that in 49 fights and it is hard to see him, at 38, changing now.

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