‘Your career is done’: Anthony Mundine’s unrelenting verbal and physical assault against Jeff Horn
ANTHONY Mundine has promised a relentless barrage of verbal and physical abuse on Jeff Horn, saying he’s already in the school teacher’s head “like an ex-girlfriend”.
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ANTHONY Mundine says he will trash-talk Jeff Horn from the first punch of their fight, and believes he is already haunting his opponent’s thoughts like an ex-girlfriend.
After Horn said last week that Mundine would unsuccessfully attempt to get inside his head before their showdown on November 30 in Brisbane, Mundine said it was already done.
“I’m already in his head, every night he goes to sleep he’s thinking about me,” Mundine told The Daily Telegraph.
“I’m like an ex-girlfriend that don’t want him.
“He’s going to become obsessed with me. And that’s good, because the obsession is going to last for a lifetime after I whoop his arse.
“I’m going to talk to him all night, how easy he is to hit, how he’s not on my level, he shouldn’t have signed this fight, how ‘Your career is done’.
“All night he’s going to get that.”
Mundine said Horn should show gratitude that he’s signed this fight, with the pair both expected to earn in excess of $4 million each.
“Jeff is a pup in this sport, just to fight me he should be thanking me, he’s a millionaire now, overnight,” Mundine said.
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“He should be telling his woman, ‘We can go another honeymoon’. He should be thankful, don’t try to disrespect me, otherwise you’re going to pay for it.”
Mundine said Horn had been blessed with “white privilege” while he’s never been given due credit by the Australian public for his own sporting career.
“I’m already in his head, every night he goes to sleep he’s thinking about me. I’m like an ex-girlfriend that don’t want him.”
“Be honest, if Jeff Horn achieved what I’ve done throughout my whole career, from the juniors, Australian schoolboys, Junior Kangaroos, NSW juniors, nearly 150 first grade NRL games, playing State of Origin, playing in three grand finals and winning one for Brisbane in the Super League, going on to become a three-time world champion and doing something that’s never been done in boxing; winning titles descending in weight - there would be monuments and statues all over the country for him,” Mundine said.
“But because I’m a black Muslim, and I speak my mind and speak the truth, they can’t give me that.
“Because I speak on social issues and what they systematically do to condition these things plays against me.”
Mundine, 43, plans to retire after this fight after an unprecedented uninterrupted 25-year career as a professional athlete and say future generations will marvel at his accomplishments.
“Oh they’ll talk about me, when I’m not here anymore and they don’t see another like me for decades they’ll start talking about me,” Mundine said.
“My legend will live on.
“You’re going to tell your kids, and they’ll tell their kids my story. And in three or four generations, people will say ‘There was this cat that done this, done that’, and they’ll be saying ‘There’s no way he could have done that, that’s unbelievable’.
“And against all odds and adversity.
“In the third fight of my career they said I was going to be the Invisible Man. I brought money to the game, I brought pizzazz to the game, charisma, flamboyancy.
“I’m not just the best sportsman to ever come out of Australia, but I’m pretty to watch, I fight poetically, I’ve got a good style, I’m appealing to the eye.”
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