madjack
14-03-2003, 02:54 AM
Mundine promises something new
March 13, 2003
WORLD-ranked super middleweight boxer Anthony Mundine plans to show fight fans something new in his bout with Brazilian Rogerio Cacciatore on the Gold Coast next Monday.
Mundine, the No.2 rated World Boxing Association super middleweight contender, will meet the 34-year-old veteran in a scheduled 10-round non-title contest at Carrara Stadium.
Well-travelled Cacciatore has a respectable record of 28 wins (19 by KO) and six defeats, though he has lost five of his last nine fights.
Cacciatore formerly held the WBO Latino light middle and middleweight and Mundo Hispano middleweight titles and unsuccessfully challenged Italian Silvio Branco for the World Boxing Union middleweight championship in 1998.
The Mundine camp has seen no footage of Cacciatore who could be the Australian's final opponent before a second world title shot.
"I just know he's going to be a cagey veteran, but I want to give everyone something new for this fight and they are going to be surprised on the night," Mundine said.
While Mundine wouldn't drop any hints about the surprise, his father and trainer Tony revealed "The Man" had been working on throwing his left more than in his last bout against Sean Sullivan.
"He should use his left hand more, the jab, plenty of left rips and left hooks, we've been working on it for the last two or three weeks," Tony Mundine said.
"You get two hands to fight and you've got to use two hands if you want to fight at world class."
His son has experienced a less than perfect preparation due to a virus and problems with sparring partners.
"The preparation hasn't been great, a lot of my sparring partners were unavailable and I only got probably 30 to 40 rounds of sparring which isn't ideal, but it's going to have to do," Anthony Mundine said.
He fights just two days after the world title unification match in Berlin between Germany's International Boxing Federation champion Sven Ottke, the only man to beat Mundine, and America's World Boxing Association's Byron Mitchell.
"I would go with Ottke, simply because it is in Germany," Anthony Mundine said.
The WBA is set to elevate the winner of the fight to the status of Super Champion which would leave its standard super middleweight world title vacant.
That would present No.2 ranked Mundine with an opportunity to fight for the vacant championship, possibly against No.1 ranked Antwun Echols, who withdrew from a non-title fight scheduled for this Saturday.
Mundine Snr said his son was looking sharp and relaxed and should have no problem with Cacciatore, even though they hadn't seen the Brazilian in action.
"We'll go out there and see what he's going to produce in the first round and we will work on it from there, but I don't think he's got the goods to match Anthony's speed and punching power," Tony Mundine said.
March 13, 2003
WORLD-ranked super middleweight boxer Anthony Mundine plans to show fight fans something new in his bout with Brazilian Rogerio Cacciatore on the Gold Coast next Monday.
Mundine, the No.2 rated World Boxing Association super middleweight contender, will meet the 34-year-old veteran in a scheduled 10-round non-title contest at Carrara Stadium.
Well-travelled Cacciatore has a respectable record of 28 wins (19 by KO) and six defeats, though he has lost five of his last nine fights.
Cacciatore formerly held the WBO Latino light middle and middleweight and Mundo Hispano middleweight titles and unsuccessfully challenged Italian Silvio Branco for the World Boxing Union middleweight championship in 1998.
The Mundine camp has seen no footage of Cacciatore who could be the Australian's final opponent before a second world title shot.
"I just know he's going to be a cagey veteran, but I want to give everyone something new for this fight and they are going to be surprised on the night," Mundine said.
While Mundine wouldn't drop any hints about the surprise, his father and trainer Tony revealed "The Man" had been working on throwing his left more than in his last bout against Sean Sullivan.
"He should use his left hand more, the jab, plenty of left rips and left hooks, we've been working on it for the last two or three weeks," Tony Mundine said.
"You get two hands to fight and you've got to use two hands if you want to fight at world class."
His son has experienced a less than perfect preparation due to a virus and problems with sparring partners.
"The preparation hasn't been great, a lot of my sparring partners were unavailable and I only got probably 30 to 40 rounds of sparring which isn't ideal, but it's going to have to do," Anthony Mundine said.
He fights just two days after the world title unification match in Berlin between Germany's International Boxing Federation champion Sven Ottke, the only man to beat Mundine, and America's World Boxing Association's Byron Mitchell.
"I would go with Ottke, simply because it is in Germany," Anthony Mundine said.
The WBA is set to elevate the winner of the fight to the status of Super Champion which would leave its standard super middleweight world title vacant.
That would present No.2 ranked Mundine with an opportunity to fight for the vacant championship, possibly against No.1 ranked Antwun Echols, who withdrew from a non-title fight scheduled for this Saturday.
Mundine Snr said his son was looking sharp and relaxed and should have no problem with Cacciatore, even though they hadn't seen the Brazilian in action.
"We'll go out there and see what he's going to produce in the first round and we will work on it from there, but I don't think he's got the goods to match Anthony's speed and punching power," Tony Mundine said.